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What she never gave up was style.” —LAUREN OYLER, THE NEW YORKER “Dworkin had reason to be angry: Her life was marked by the kind of male violence that is disturbingly common yet consistently goes unacknowledged.” —MOIRA DONEGAN, BOOKFORUM 8P_NP2020FallCatalog_35737.indd 2 5/1/20 11:06 AM Andrea Dworkin The Feminist as Revolutionary MARTIN DUBERMAN FROM ONE OF AMERICA’S LEADING BIOGRAPHERS, THE DEFINITIVE STORY OF THE RADICAL FEMINIST AND ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY ACTIVIST, BASED ON EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO HER ARCHIVES You may think you know Dworkin, and there may indeed be Praise for Martin Duberman: things that you can’t stand about Dworkin . but there is so A deeply moral and reflective much about her work that is prescient, terrifying in its acuity, man who has engaged the great- raucous and daring and very much of this moment. est struggles of our times with —REBECCA TRAISTER an unflinching nerve, a wise heart, and a brilliant intellect. Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important —JONATHAN KOZOL and challenging figures in second-wave feminism. Although frequently relegated Martin Duberman is known for his to its more radical fringes, Dworkin was without doubt a formidable and influential unique combination of talents— writer, a philosopher, and an activist—a brilliant figure who inspired and infuriated in as a distinguished historian, a talented writer, and an impas- equal measure. Her many detractors were eager to reduce her to the caricature of sioned advocate of the rights the angry, man-hating feminist who believed that all sex was rape, and as a result, her of gays and other beleaguered work has long been misunderstood. It is in recent years, especially with the rise of the members of the human commu- #MeToo movement, that there has been a resurgence of interest in her ideas. nity. This biography is the perfect complement to the widely reviewed anthology of —HOWARD ZINN her writing, Last Days at Hot Slit, published in 2019, providing much-needed context The rare qualities of wisdom and to her work. Given exclusive access to never-before-published photographs and ar- empathy have made Duberman a chives, including her letters to many of the major figures of second-wave feminism, unique voice. award-winning biographer Martin Duberman traces Dworkin’s life, from her abusive —FRANCES FOX PIVEN first marriage through her central role in the sex and pornography wars of the follow- September ing decades. This is a vital, complex, and long overdue reassessment of the life and Hardcover, 978-1-62097-585-5 work of one of the towering figures of second-wave feminism. Ebook, 978-1-62097-586-2 $29.99 / $38.99 CAN 6” x 9”, 384 pages Martin Duberman is a distinguished professor emeritus of history at the CUNY Grad- Biography uate Center, where he founded the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The author of more than twenty books, Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City. WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM 3 8P_NP2020FallCatalog_35737.indd 3 5/1/20 11:06 AM A History of America in Ten Strikes ERIK LOOMIS NOW IN PAPERBACK AN “ENTERTAINING, TOUGH-MINDED, AND STRENUOUSLY ARGUED” (THE NATION) ACCOUNT OF TEN MOMENTS WHEN WORKERS FOUGHT TO CHANGE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN AMERICA A fresh history of American A brilliantly recounted American history through the prism labor. Each chapter of this of major labor struggles, with critically important lessons well-told saga could stand on for those who seek a better future for working people and the its own. Loomis delivers world. a jargon-free, clearly written —NOAM CHOMSKY history. —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) A Kirkus Reviews best book of 2018, A History of America in Ten Strikes—published in Provides an edifying look the wake of the teachers’ strike that swept the country in 2018—challenges all of our at the abuse of power in America . evocative of contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. Labor his- Howard Zinn’s People’s History torian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history in of the United States. “chapters [that] are self-contained enough to be used on their own in union trainings —BOOKLIST or reading groups” (Labor Notes), and adds an appendix detailing the 150 most im- Doesn’t flinch when describ- portant strikes in American history. These labor uprisings do not just reflect the times ing the less savory sides of the in which they occurred, but speak directly to the present moment, where American American labor movement. workers are still fighting for basic rights like a livable minimum wage. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY From the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990, “what September Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor move- ment, despite its many failures and compromises, has always been to make everyday Paperback, 978-1-62097-627-2 Ebook, 978-1-62097-162-8 life more democratic” (The New Republic).