Author: Frances Smith Foster
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: watkins, harper, reader, ellen, frances, coming, day, brighter
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1558610200
ISBN-13: 9781558610200

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African-American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and a generous selection of prose and letters, and provides moving portraits of suffering under slavery, as well as of freedom, love, infidelity, poverty, and heroism. As The New York Times Book Review notes, ?This anthology . . . not only provides the first modern biography of Harper, but also illuminates her connection to . . . 20th-century writers like Zor

Authors:Dorothy B. Hughes,  Paula Rabinowitz,
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: write, pulp, women, fatales, place, femmes, lonely
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1558614559
ISBN-13: 9781558614550

A 1947 classic that takes us inside the mind of a male serial killer. Author Dorothy B. Hughes explores the ana-tomy of American -misogyny and -accomplishes a mystery writing tour de force by depicting his eventual -capture—by two daring and powerful women—from his point of view. The characters of Dix Steele and Laurel Grey, the glamorous actress he falls for but can’t hold on to, were so well drawn that they became the basis for extraordinary performances by Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in the 1950 film version of the book, which also reflects the suspense and hard-boile

Author: Edith Konecky
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: goldman, maud, allegra
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1558612815
ISBN-13: 9781558612815

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic coming-of-age novel that was called "one of those rare delights . . . as wise as it is funny" (Alix Kates Shulman, Ms. Magazine). This endearing novel chronicles the growth of the young Allegra in pre-World War II Brooklyn as she learns about sex, death, bigotry, family limitations, and what it means to be young and female and independent.

Authors:Shashi Deshpande,  Sonita Sarker,
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: vine, binding
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1558614028
ISBN-13: 9781558614024

This moving and exquisitely crafted novel renders visible the extraordinary endurance and grace concealed in women’s everyday lives. The lives of three women who are "haunted by fears, secrets, and deep grief" (Washington Post) are bound together by strands of life and hope—a binding vine of love, concern, and connection that spreads across chasms of time, social class, and even death. The Baltimore Sun declared the novel, "Chekhovian . . . Deshpande’s story of a woman who loses a daughter is linked to the politics of India and its tradition of patriarchy."

Authors:Elizabeth Robins,  Jane Marcu,
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: convert
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1980-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0912670835
ISBN-13: 9780912670836

   This novel, first published in 1907, brings to life Robin’s experience and that of her colleagues, Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst, in the story of Vida Levering, an upper-class British woman "converted" to the working-class suffrage movement. In a suspenseful plot, Robins contrasts the witty dialogue of elegant drawing rooms with the rough-and-tumble outdoor meetings of Trafalgar Square, recreating them almost word for word from actual accounts. Ultimately, Vida begins to make her own first speeches and out of the tragic events of her past devises a means of effecting womenR

Author: Clare Coss
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: press, sourcebook, feminist, activist, wald, progressive, lillian
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1558610006
ISBN-13: 9781558610002

   This volume includes Clare Coss’s play Lillian Wald: At Home on Henry Street, which is closely based on Wald’s writings and actual events in her life as well as speeches, letters, and leaflets by Wald herself-"a carefully balanced selection, highlighting Wald’s antiwar activities and her deep concern for the rights of labor"-Annette T. Rubinstein, Science and Society. The one-character play conveys the personal moments that made Wald’s public contributions a lasting mandate for social change. Coss’s introduction and notes on the documents place them and the

Authors:Dorothy Bryant,  Janet Zandy,
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: giardino, miss
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1558611746
ISBN-13: 9781558611740

    Faithful followers of Dorothy Bryant’s work revere this subtle, lyrical, and moving novel, originally published in 1978, as a rare testament to the inner life of a teacher and of an older woman struggling to rediscover her place in a world which, increasingly, seems to have no need for her.    As the novel begins, 68-year-old retired teacher Anna Giardino wakes up in a hospital after having been found lying unconscious in front of Camino Real High School in San Francisco’s Mission District, where she taught for 40 years. She cannot remember what has happened and is unsur