Feminism | Feminism
Sep.08.2011
Comic books and philosophy don't usually mix, but during her "drawn out" college career, Kristen Caven often used cartooning to medicate "the pain in her brain." In her new collection of full-page works, she has danced around the edge of the autobiographical comic genre, and may have just opened up...
|
Apr.04.2011
Traffic Stop contains some of my best poems written from the 1970s to 2009. Themes include being an assertive nontraditional woman, having close relationships, teaching college English and women's studies, loving nature, traveling, being involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement, mourning my...
|
Feb.16.2011
A Woman's Way is a novel based on the life story of the 19th century French Feminist, Maria Deraismes. Sofia Diana Gabel blends historical fact with fiction as she details Maria Deraismes' struggle against misogynistic men and the French government during the turbulent 1870s in Paris. Maria gets...
|
Oct.25.2010
MURIEL’S WAR: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
The captivating story of a courageous woman who left a life of privilege for a world of danger and international intrigue.
Born into a wealthy meatpacking dynasty in Chicago and educated at Wellesley, raven-haired beauty Muriel Gardiner...
|
Aug.05.2010
"Marjorie Tesser’s first book is a riot, a concept, a poem you can play and play with.
Beginning from comments solicited at a Suggestion Box at the Bowery Poetry Club,
using those metapoems to conceive both the book-as-card-game motif (roll over,
Surrealism!) and the fill-in-the-blanks of the...
|
Jul.01.2010
From Booklist
Part inspirational, part self-help, and part directory, this work contains sepia-and-white photographs, essays, poetry, interviews, quotations, and statistics. The compilers have experience in editing reference works: for example, Brennan edited the Women's Information...
|
|
Apr.12.2010
A cartoon-filled memoir about creativity and academia, women's brains, boys and lack thereof, and the joys and heartaches of cartooning. Features Inside the Mills Revolution, the only cartoon history of the 1990 student strike at Mills College, which was the only successful reversal of a womens...
|
Apr.01.2010
Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work Poetry, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees is a cross-generational volume of poetry, featuring the work of 50 thought provoking and inspirational women writers, lyricists and spoken word artists...
|
Jan.06.2010
From Publishers Weekly The daughter of famed African American writer Alice Walker and liberal Jewish lawyer Mel Leventhal brings a frank, spare style and detail-rich memories the this compelling contribution to the growing subgenre of memoirs by biracial authors about life in a race-obsessed...
|
Nov.25.2009
From Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers, Emma Peel to Sydney Bristow, Charlie’s Angels to the Powerpuff Girls, Superwomen are more than just love interests or sidekicks who stand by their men. In her new book, Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology, author, writer,...
|