The Feminist Press At Cuny: 166 books
I Dwell in Possibility
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
"Represents a new generation of women's writing, one in which personal histories and maternal legacies are reclaimed in the context of a feminist consciousness of the effects of class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality on the individual life.... McNaron creates a vivid, moving, and memorable account...
Radical Reproductive Justice
Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This anthology assembles two decades’ of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, who created the human rights-based reproductive justice” to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary...
by Virginie Despentes, Emma Ramadan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Stunning Claudine and gloomy Pauline pretend to be one person so that Claudine can be famous, but just as things take off, Claudine commits suicide. Pauline hatches a new scheme, taking on her dead sister’s identity, inhabiting her apartment, and reading her emails—slowly realizing the cost of femininity is to dazzle on the outside while rotting on the inside.
by Claire Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
She was the pampered daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, then the bored wife of the man who took over the business, lost in suburbia, drifting through the days until she found politics. Claire Reed always believed in helping others, but it wasn't until she began working with Women Strike for Peace,...
by Violette Leduc
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Two French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this “masterpiece on the tyranny of love” (Independent, UK).
“Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force” (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian)....
Umbertina
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
The “panoramic, descriptive, and solidly crafted” historical novel of immigration, womanhood, and the feminist ideals of self-reliance and self-confidence (Publishers Weekly).
This sweeping, multi-generational novel begins in southern Italy’s Calabria region in the late 1800s, as Umbertina—the...
Intimate Wars
The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A “searingly honest debut memoir” from an activist and award-winning journalist who made a woman’s right to choose her life’s work (Kirkus Reviews).
Merle Hoffman had built a life as a classical pianist and self-made millionaire before her passion for the equality and freedom of girls and...
$pread
The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
“A fascinating collection from a group of courageous women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a compelling and intelligent way.” —Candida Royalle
$pread, an Utne Award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection...
Kissing the Sword
A Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
A moving account of life as a political prisoner in post-revolutionary Iran from the acclaimed Iranian author of Women Without Men.
Shahrnush Parsipur was a successful writer and television producer in her native Iran until the Revolution of 1979. Soon after seizing control, the Islamist government...
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
This novel “unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America” (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist).
Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother...
Transforming Japan
How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A volume of essays by Japan’s leading female scholars and activists exploring their country’s recent progressive cultural shift.
When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every...
Generation F
The Girls Write Now 2018 Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
**"Writing is a powerful act that lets the writer articulate her thoughts and feelings directly, fluently, openly, and originally; and in doing so, the writer forges a connection with that other important half of the equation: the reader. These young writers are working hard every day to describe...
HAMMER!
Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
HAMMER! is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during...
Vertigo
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
A scholar’s memoir of growing up and the powerful forces that shaped her as a woman and a writer; “her story will inspire all women” (Library Journal).
In this honest and outspoken reflection on her childhood, Louise DeSalvo explores the many ways literature saved her, both emotionally and...