Women's Studies | Women's Studies
Feb.06.2013
This new collection of poetry and prose explores the body as a site of pleasure, pain and political struggle. Disabled and chronically ill writer, historian and activist Aurora Levins Morales writes about epilepsy and stroke, the social control of dark skinned women's sexuality and the...
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Dec.12.2012
Co-edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Therese Saliba and Paula Sunderman. A collection of original essays by leading authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine, focusing on texts available in English translation. Authors discussed include...
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Dec.03.2012
This collection spans geographies of war, homelessness, homemaking, longing, and hope as it travels through Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, American and other landscapes. Informed by depth of experience and a resilient humanism, these poems seek to transform landscapes of devastation to...
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Mar.26.2012
Poetry of life, love, pain and gain. Geared toward women on women's issues and studies.
Book can be ordered directly through the author and signed by e-mail request bmoyer37@aol.com or use amazon.com to order. Check out site www.bernadetteamoyer.com
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Oct.24.2011
A cross between True Grit and Huckleberry Finn, Bohemian Girl creates "a western world as raucous and unpredictable as any imagined by Larry McMurtry, and teeming with characters as tragically heroic as those created by Willa Cather," according to a starred Booklist review. Kirkus said: True Grit's...
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Nov.06.2009
"I cannot figure out who I am as a body these days," writes Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg in this powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer. Mirriam-Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation and the loss of a parent by connecting...
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Oct.06.2009
Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyricism and burst from the page into song. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers sees the blues, what she terms the “shared ‘blue notes,’’’ as an...
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Oct.06.2009
In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues, use the blues poetic to explore notions of...
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Sep.14.2009
Regina is Diana’s beloved grandmother - a spirited woman who loves her, cares for her, even teaches her to type her first stories on a Remington typewriter. So when Regina inexplicably takes her own life at age sixty-one, ten-year-old Diana is left devastated.
Three decades later, Diana...
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Jun.02.2009
My first proudly self-published book, this poem is a true product of and testament to the strong bonds formed in the
Women's Communities of Los Angeles in the early '80's. A good friend (Sheila M.) printed this book b/c she just watned to know if she could,
at her dad's print shop; about five of...
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