Fall/winter September 2010–March 2011

THE FEMINIST PRESS

40 years of innovative books that tell a different story
 from the executive director

We’re halfway through our fortieth anniversary year, and we’ve produced
another powerful new season of books that illuminate the importance of the
Feminist Press. Our goal: to tell a different story, the one you won’t hear
from establishment publishers. We publish voices of women and men from
around the world, bringing you the writers who dare to speak out, who dare
to question, and who won’t take no for an answer.
As the print landscape changes, we’re changing too: creating e-books
for Kindle, Nook, iPad, your phone and computer, while continuing to
revel in the joy of creating a printed book that you can hold in your hands.
Whatever your mode of reading, the important thing is that these stories
continue to be told. As more progressive, independent organizations go
under, the need for a different story becomes even more vital. I know that
you share my concern about preserving these voices. And that’s why I
am asking you to pledge your financial support. We’ve garnered tons of
positive press coverage and hosted amazing author events this year, but we
need your help to continue our work. There is much to do in the next era
of feminist publishing, many stories yet untold, but we can’t do it without
you. Thank you. I look forward to seeing you as our anniversary celebration
continues.

Gloria Jacobs
May 2010

feminist press staff

Gloria Jacobs Executive Director

Deonne Kahler Administrative Manager

Maryann Jacob Macias Development Manager

Jeanann Pannasch Managing Editor

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Amy Scholder Editorial Director

Drew Stevens design and production Manager

Cary Webb Marketing and sales associate

interns

Tia Gardner, Amanda Lorencz, Monika Ostrowski, Jennifer Pan,

Natalie Peart, Lauren Raheja, Ayana Smith, Laura Tatham
 contents

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Forthcoming Fall/Winter Titles
September 2010–March 2011

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Recently Published

21
Backlist Highlights

28
Celebrating Our 40th Anniversary

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Ordering Information

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Index

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Support Us
Hiroshima in the Morning
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

I n June 2001 Rahna Reiko Rizzuto travels to Hiroshima to

interview survivors of the atomic bomb, while her husband
and two young sons remain in New York. But initial interviews
with hibakusha, the survivors, feel rehearsed and they reveal
little beyond already published accounts. Then September 11
changes everything. The vulnerability exposed by the attacks
shatters the survivors’ carefully constructed narratives. They
open up to Rizzuto in astonishing ways, describing in detail
their agonizing experiences.
Separated from her family as the world seems to be falling
apart, Rizzuto sees her marriage begin to crumble as her
husband’s expectations clash with her growing ambivalence
about being a wife and mother. The parallel narratives of
Hiroshima in the survivors’ own words and of Rizzuto’s personal
awakening show memory not as history, but as a story we tell
ourselves to explain who we are.

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s highly acclaimed first

novel, Why She Left Us, won an American Book
Award in 2000. She is a faculty member in the
MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard
College, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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In Brooklyn, in 2001, I was making a

list. I knew I was leaving, but if I had
known how thoroughly my life would
shatter over the next six months, into
gains just as astonishing as the losses;
if I knew I was saying goodbye to the
person I was that night, that decade,
that lifetime; if I understood I was
about to become someone new, too new,
someone I was proud of, who I loved,
but who was too different to fit here, in
this particular, invisible narrative that
I was sitting in but couldn’t feel, would
I still have gotten on the airplane?
This is the question people will ask
me. The question that curls, now, in
the dark of the night.
How do any of us decide to leave the
people we love?

“A brave, compassionate, and heart-

wrenching memoir, of one woman’s
quest to redeem the past while
learning to live fully in the present.”
—Kate Moses, author of
Cakewalk: A Memoir and
Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath

September 2010 • $16.95 paper • 978-1-55861-667-7 • Rights: World English

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Hold on to the Sun
Michal Govrin
Edited by Judith G. Miller

I n this portrait of the artist as a young woman, Michal Govrin,

one of Israel’s most important contemporary writers, offers a
kaleidoscope of stories and essays. Populated by mysterious and
real people, each tale is in some way a search for meaning in a
post-Holocaust world. Reminiscent of W.G. Sebald, characters
irrationally and humanely find reason for hope in a world
that offers little. Essays describe Govrin’s visits to Poland as
a young adult, where her mother had survived a death camp.
Govrin journeys there after she learns that her mother had not
been alone. She lost her first husband and eight-year-old son,
Govrin’s half brother, and kept it a secret from her second family
for many years. In a multiplicity of voices, Govrin’s haunting
stories capture the depths of denial and the exuberance of youth.

Michal Govrin is the author of eight books of fic-

tion and poetry. Her novel The Name won the
Kugel Literary Prize in Israel; her second novel
Snapshots was awarded the 2003 Acum Prize for
the best literary achievement of the year. Govrin
has been selected by the Salon du Livre as one
of the most influential writers of the past thirty
years.

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On the platform I was met by Sylvia,

my official escort, a petite, shapely
woman wearing a checkered coat—a
perfect Polish beauty. I took down my
suitcases and shamefacedly apologized
for their weight. I found it hard to
explain the anxiety that gripped me in
anticipation of retracing the footsteps
of my mother, of my murdered eight-
year-old brother, and so, tormented
by the migration of souls that I had
embarked upon, I dragged with me
on my journey all the books I deemed
absolutely essential for my survival:
Kafka and Rilke and Gebirtig and
Primo Levi and Szymborska and Bruno
Schulz and Viktor Frankl and a siddur
and a mikraot gedolot and Noam
Elimelech by the Rebbe of Lizhensk,
weighing in all some sixty pounds.
Sylvia, delicate as she was, kept up a
smile, even when we reached the small
hotel with no elevator, even as we
athletically dragged the huge suitcase
up floor after floor after floor.

October 2010 • $16.95 paper • 978-1-55861-673-8 • Rights: World

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Celebrate People’s History!
The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
Edited by Josh MacPhee
Foreword by Rebecca Solnit

T he best way to learn history is to visualize it. Since 1998,

Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over one
hundred posters by more than eighty artists that pay tribute
to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation,
labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate
People’s History! presents these essential moments—acts of
resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human
and civil rights struggles—as a visual tour through decades
and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most
interesting and socially engaged artists working today. Includes
Cristy Road, Swoon, Nicole Schulman, Christopher Cardinale,
Sabrina Jones, Eric Drooker, Klutch, Carrie Moyer, Laura
Whitehorn, Dan Berger, Ricardo Levins Morales, Chris Stain,
and more.

Josh MacPhee is an artist and activist whose

work revolves around themes of history, radical
politics, and public space. His most recent books
are Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures,
co-edited with Dara Greenwald, and Paper
Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today.
He is a member of the political art cooperative
Justseeds.org and a co-editor of Signal: A Jour-
nal of International Political Graphics. He lives in
Brooklyn, NY.

Rebecca Solnit is the author of many books

including A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordi-
nary Communities that Arise in Disaster.

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 November 2010 • $24.95 paper • 978-1-55861-677-6 • Rights: World

7  celebrate people’s history!

Hey, Shorty!
A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and
Violence in Schools and on the Streets
Joanne N. Smith, Meghan Huppuch,
and Mandy Van Deven
of Girls for Gender Equity (GGE)

A t every stage of education, sexual harassment is common,

and often considered a rite of passage for young people.
Many teenagers say it’s not unusual for a girl to hear, “Hey,
Shorty!” on a daily basis, as she walks down the hall or comes
into the school yard, followed by a sexual innuendo, insult,
come-on, or assault. But when asked whether they experience
this in their own lives, most say it’s not happening.
Girls for Gender Equity, a nonprofit organization based in
New York City, has developed a model for teens to teach one
another about sexual harassment. How do you define it? How
does it affect your self-esteem? What do you do in response?
Why is it so normalized in schools, and how can we as a society
begin to address these causes? Geared toward students, parents,
teachers, policy makers, and activists, this book is an excellent
model for building awareness and creating change in any com-
munity.

Founded by Joanne N. Smith, Girls for Gender

Equity is a nonprofit organization based in Brook-
lyn committed to the physical, psychological,
social, and economic development of urban
girls.

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When I asked this twelve-year-old

girl to ask her school or local center
to start the program she needed, she
told me that she felt as if her com-
munity doesn’t support, see, hear, or
create for her what she really needs.
The realization that programs did not
exist to support the optimal develop-
ment of NYC girls, along with hearing
the powerlessness girls felt, hit close to
home because this second generation,
poverty-challenged, potential-filled girl
could easily have been me. Because I
knew something different, I believed
that I could develop the confidence of
girls during their pre-adolescent years,
which is a time when they are most
vulnerable and have the lowest level
of self-esteem. I believed that since the
city did not provide programming, I
could create that space.

January 2011 • $12.95 paper • 978-1-55861-669-1 • Rights: World

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Rape New York
Jana Leo

I n the gripping first pages of this true story, Jana Leo relives
the moment-by-moment experience of a home invasion and
rape in her apartment in Harlem. After she reports the crime,
she waits. Between police disinterest and squabbles from the
health insurance company over who’s going to pay for the rape
kit, she realizes that the violence of such an experience does
not stop with the crime. Increasingly concerned that the rapist
will return to harm her or other women in the building, she
seeks help from her landlord, who refuses to address security
issues on the property. She comes to understand that it is
precisely her situation—living in a newly gentrified lower-
income area—that leads to high turnover rates, huge profits for
slumlords, and greater insecurity for tenants.
In this most singular memoir, Leo weaves her psychological
journey into an analysis that becomes equally personal: the fault
lines of property mismanagement, class vulnerabilities, and a
deeply flawed criminal justice system.

Jana Leo taught at Cooper Union for seven

years, and now divides her time between Madrid
and New York. In 2007, she founded Civic Gaps,
a New York think tank dedicated to studying
empty or neglected spaces in the city.

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He had already committed a crime by

entering my house. He’d committed
another by pointing a gun at me, and
a third by stealing my money. What
would happen next? He was standing
in front of me in the living room of my
apartment bathed in sunlight. I looked
at his face. I could identify him to the
police. How was he going to prevent
that? By killing me?
Statistics tumbled through my mind.
My boyfriend had been working on a
project for his studio class about pris-
ons and architecture. “One out of ten
men in the US is or will be in prison.
One out of four black men is or will be
in prison.” I felt nervous. What did he
want? Did he enjoy playing with me?
I was fully aware that I was the loser
and he was the winner.
“Could you go? I need to do some
things before I go to school. Could you
please go?”
“I’m not going. I’ll decide when I’m
leaving. Don’t tell me what to do.”
He sounded angry and powerful: the
voice of an enemy. He was showing
how limited my power was. He was
not going to go. Why not? What did he
want? He is just there sitting on the
edge of the bed, looking at me.

February 2011 • $15.95 paper • 978-1-55861-681-3 • Rights: US/Canada

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The Reality Shows
Karen Finley
Foreword by Kathleen Hanna

N o other performing artist has captured the psychological

complexity of our political and social landscapes as Karen
Finley has in the past ten years. In her inimitable style,
Finley has embodied some of the most troubling figures to cast
a long shadow on the public imagination, and has envisioned
a kind of catharsis within each drama: Liza Minnelli responds
to the September 11 attacks; Terri Schiavo explains why
Americans love a woman in a coma; Martha Stewart dumps
George W. Bush during their tryst on the eve of the Republican
National Convention; Silda Spitzer tells the former governor
why “I’m sorry” just isn’t enough; Jackie O cries, “Please stop
looking at me!”
The Reality Shows blazes through a dark and vivid era.
These seething performance pieces are fully contextualized
with introductions by the author and a timeline of cultural
and political milestones since the beginning of the twenty-first
century.

Karen Finley’s raw and transgressive perfor-

mances have long provoked controversy and
debate. She has presented her visual art, per-
formances, and plays internationally. The author
of many books including A Different Kind Of Inti-
macy, George & Martha, and Shock Treatment,
she is a professor at the Tisch School of Art and
Public Policy at New York University.

Kathleen Hanna, activist and writer, was the lead

singer of the punk band Bikini Kill before fronting
the dance-punk band Le Tigre. She also released
a solo album under the name Julie Ruin.

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“Most performers have nightmares about
finding themselves onstage with their
pants down or their skirts over their heads,
their lines forgotten and their makeup
smeared. This exposed state is what Ms.
Finley strives for . . . ”
—Ben Brantley, New York Times

Praise for George & Martha

“A nasty, hysterical, weirdly-plausible
bitch-slap of a book.”
—Jerry Stahl, author of Pain Killers

“Fasten your seatbelts—it’s a bumpy,

hilarious night.”
—Margo Jefferson, author of
On Michael Jackson

“Scarily hilarious . . . Nobody’s mind works

like Karen Finley’s.”
—Amy Heckerling, director of Clueless

“This brilliant fantasy shines a devastating

light on the pathologies now at the top
of our cracked system.”
—Mark Crispin Miller, author of Loser Take All

Praise for A Different Kind of Intimacy

“It ranges from bitterly amusing to
profoundly somber.”
—New York Times Book Review

March 2011 • $16.95 paper • 978-1-55861-671-4 • Rights: World

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The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
Darina Al-Joundi, with Mohammed Kacimi
Translated by Marjolijn de Jager

R aised on Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine

Bordeaux in 1970s Lebanon, Darina Al-Joundi was
encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. As
the bombs fell during the civil war, she lived an adolescence of
excess and transgression, defying death in nightclubs. The more
oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous
sex she had, spending her nights with the same men who would
resent her by day. As the war died down, she began to incur the
consequences of her lifestyle. On his deathbed, her father’s last
wish is for his favorite song, “Sinnerman,” by Nina Simone, to
be played at his funeral instead of the traditional suras of the
Koran. When she does just that, the results are catastrophic.
In this dramatic true story, Darina Al-Joundi is defiantly
passionate about living her life as a liberated woman, even if it
means leaving everyone and everything behind.

Darina Al-Joundi was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in

1968. “The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing”
is also the title of her critically acclaimed one-
person show, which was performed in France,
where she now lives as an actress, screenwriter,
and filmmaker.

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I was too mean and my sister Nayla

was too sweet. I used to stuff peas up
her nostrils, and serve her fruit full of
worms. She trusted me. She swallowed
it all with her eyes closed. Rather than
lecturing me, my father was delighted
with my foolish actions. He had a
barbaric enthusiasm for all my mis-
chief. I think that from our childhood
on he refused to play the father role,
so he could be party to our mistakes,
our transgressions, and our success.
To teach us Arabic he would sing us
songs from Salamiyeh at six o’clock
in the morning; he loved for us to get
up early. Even on the john he would
respond to us in poetry. He had written
one volume of poetry on cigarette packs
during a stay in prison in Syria.
Our childhood was a constant feast.
Poets, journalists, activists would
knock on our door spontaneously at any
hour of the day or night. . . . Alcohol
flowed freely. As children we’d often
sleep under the table not to miss a
single poem. My childhood was a per-
petual clinking of arak glasses and my
father’s laughter shaking the walls.

March 2011 • $14.95 paper • 978-1-55861-683-7 • Rights: World English

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 market
WSQ: Vol. 38, Nos. 3 & 4:
Fall/Winter 2010
Edited by Mara Einstein and
Joe Rollins
The market can be on Wall Street or Main
Street, psychological and physiological,
traditional, viral, or stealth. WSQ Market
explores urgent questions about markets, from
“green” capitalism, to women’s bodies, to the
vicissitudes of globalization.
Mara Einstein is an associate professor at Queens
College, CUNY, and New York University.
Joe Rollins is an associate professor at Queens Col-
lege, CUNY, and the CUNY Graduate Center.

June 2010 • $25.00 paper • 978-1-55861-660-8 • Rights: World

Citizenship
WSQ: Vol. 38, Nos. 1 & 2:
Spring/Summer 2010
Edited by Terri Gordon-Zolov and
Robin Rogers
The concept of nationalism conjures up feelings
of belonging and allegiance, togetherness and
protective boundaries, but what of alienation
and xenophobia, immigration and asylum?
This issue of WSQ questions what it means to
be a citizen in a world haunted by terrorism,
racial tension, and gender and class exclusion.
Terri Gordon-Zolov is an associate professor at
The New School and has also taught at Columbia
University and Barnard College.
Robin Rogers is an associate professor at Queens
College, CUNY, and the CUNY Graduate Center.

June 2010 • $25.00 paper • 978-1-55861-660-8 • Rights: World

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King Kong Theory
Virginie Despentes
Translated by Stephanie Benson

“King Kong Theory is essential reading!”

—Dorothy Allison

“King Kong Theory brings to mind Solanas’s SCUM

Manifesto, Muscio’s CUNT, and Plath’s The Bell
Jar—feminist eloquence without restraint. You will
love it.”
—Susie Bright

“A must read for every sex worker, tranny, punk,

queer, john, academic, pornographer—and for
all those people who dislike them too.”
—Annie Sprinkle

$15.95 paper • 978-1-55861-657-8 • Rights: US/Canada

Streb
How to Become an Extreme
Action Hero
Elizabeth Streb
Foreword by Anna Deavere Smith
introduction by peggy phelan

“Fearlessness and intelligence combined—that is

what makes Elizabeth Streb’s work so potent and
beautiful.”
—Mikhail Baryshnikov

“In this inspiring and passionate book, ultra-

tenacious Elizabeth shares with the reader some
of her surrealist goals: leaving a room through the
walls; never landing after jumping; and moving
so fast that you stand still. Wow!”
—Philippe Petit, high wire artist-in-residence,
Cathedral St. John the Divine

$18.95 paper • 978-1-55861-656-1 • Rights: World

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 His Own Where
June Jordan
Introduced by Sapphire

“This June Jordan treasure is a rare piece of fiction

from one of America’s most vital poets and
political essayists—a tender story of young love in
the face of generational opposition, a modern-
day Romeo and Juliet that sings and sways.”
—Walter Mosley

“It is June Jordan’s use of language that makes

this small novel a literary tour de force. If we say
poetry is about language first and foremost, and
I believe we can say that, then this novel rises
above mere narrative front its very first pages.”
—Sapphire

$11.95 paper • 978-1-55861-658-5 • Rights: World

Revenge
Taslima Nasrin
Translated by Honor Moore,
with Taslima Nasrin

“Nasrin’s voice is the voice of humanism

everywhere.”
—Wole Soyinka

“Taslima Nasrin has spoken out about the

oppression of women under Islam, and what
she’s said needs saying.”
—Salman Rushdie

$15.95 paper • 978-1-55861-659-2 • Rights: World X India

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From Madea to Michelle
Courtney Young

In an impassioned polemic, Courtney Young

strikes at the heart of this defining cultural
moment. One of the most successful produc-
ers in Hollywood, Tyler Perry has made an
industry out of his Madea character: one
steeped in a long tradition of men dressing
as women, spoofing black femininity. At the
other extreme, Michelle Obama represents
an independence and integrity that inspire
new paradigms.
Young wrestles with how deeply issues of
representation touch people, how contentious
they can become, and how important it is to
engage with the images of our culture today.

$14.95 paper • 978-1-55861-663-9 • Rights: World

Rajmahal
Kamalini Sengupta
“Rajmahal is Sengupta’s Howard’s End …
an incredible mix of mores and manners,
from political ambitions all the way to sex.”
—Nadine Gordimer

“Kamalini Sengupta’s Rajmahal is indeed

her Howard’s End! But the encompassing
achievement of the novel is its penetration of a
new stage in our human history: Sengupta’s is
among the first and unquestionably to me the
most revealing description of the life of the post-
colonialist and post-colonized living on, somehow
together.”
—Nadine Gordimer

Kamalini Sengupta

$16.95 paper • 978-1-55861-608-0 • Rights: World X India

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 Witches, Midwives & Nurses
A History of Women Healers
second edition
Barbara Ehrenreich and
Deirdre English
Witches, Midwives & Nurses is an essential
book about the corruption of the medical
establishment and its historic roots in the
demonizing of women healers. With insight
and originality, the authors weave together
stories about witch hunts of the Middle Ages,
the emergence of the Popular Health Move-
ment, and an analysis of the contemporary
state of medicine in relation to women’s
rights. In a new introduction, Ehrenreich and
English discuss how “for all our gains, we
clearly have our work cut out for us.”

$8.95 paper • 978-1-55861-661-5 • Rights: World

If a Tree Falls
A Family’s Quest to Hear and
Be Heard
Jennifer Rosner
“Deep and moving truths fall out of this
enchanting memoir, as deafness becomes a
means of exploring the grave obstacles we all
face in knowing what it is like to be another.”
—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of
36 Arguments for the Existence
of God: A Work of Fiction

“With honesty and endearing humility, Rosner

writes about the searing emotional challenges
that parents can face, and about absorbing
these lessons and moving into deeper wisdom. A
beautiful exploration of love and hard choices.”
—Josh Swiller, author of The Unheard: A Memoir of
Deafness and Africa

$15.95 paper • 978-1-55861-662-2 • Rights: World

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The Madame Curie Complex
The Hidden History of Women in Science
Julie Des Jardins
“Women in scientific endeavors came thirty years late to
the second feminist wave. But when they finally arrived,
they changed—and continued to change—everything we
know about the macro and micro of our environment. Julie
Des Jardins has assembled a history of their difficult journey
and shown us how much more impoverished the bank of
human knowledge would be if discrimination had silenced
them.” —Claudia Dreifus, author of Scientific Conversations:
Interviews on Science from the New York Times

$16.95 paper • 978-1-55861-613-4 •Rights: World

HAMMER!
Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Barbara Hammer
“Barbara Hammer’s genius is an erotic genius, one rich in
intuitive intelligence. HAMMER! reveals a spirit that is at
once youthful and worldly, full of conviction, and often
optimistic, bold, ravenous, and celebratory.”
—Cecilia Dougherty, artist

“HAMMER! is a brilliant and shimmering feast of art and

activism. Barbara’s fearless queer intelligence illuminates
every page.” —John Greyson, filmmaker

$19.95 paper • 978-1-55861-612-7 • Rights: World

The War Before

The True Life Story of Becoming a Black
Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting
for Those Left Behind
Safiya Bukhari
Edited, with an introduction by
Laura Whitehorn; Foreword by Angela Y.
Davis; Afterword by Mumia Abu-Jamal
“This collection reveals Safiya Bukhari to be one of the very
best examples of dedication to radical change and to
revolutionary social justice.” —Angela Y. Davis

$15.95 paper • 978-1-55861-610-3 • Rights: World

21  backlist highlights

 Still Brave
The Evolution of Black Women’s Studies
Edited by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith
Foster & Beverly Guy-Sheftall
“Still Brave is a monumental book that reminds us of the
centrality of Black Womanist genius and talent grounded
in courage and struggle. We can never understand what
it means to be modern, new world, or African without this
precious volume.”
—Cornel West

$22.95 paper • 978-1-55861-611-0 • Rights: World

Women Who Kill

Ann Jones
With a new introduction
“Ann Jones’s classic book shows that female violence is
nothing new and hardly rare, and the motivation behind it
speaks volumes about the society in which it takes place.”
—Patty Jenkins, director of Monster

$15.95 paper • 978-1-55861-607-3 • Rights: World

From Wonso Pond

Kang Kyŏng-ae
Translated from the Korean by Samuel Perry

“From Wŏnso Pond is an astonishing achievement of a

young author whose life ended far too soon. Here, we
have two girls and two boys, four hearts and two roads.
From colonized Korea, Kang sets the stage for the tragic
birth of two rival nations. John Dos Passos and George
Orwell may have had a Korean sister yet.”
—Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires

$16.95 paper • 978-1-55861-601-1 • 296 pages • Rights: World English

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Women without Men:
A Novel of Modern Iran
Shahrnush Parsipur
Translated from the Persian by
Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet
Afterword by Persis M. Karim

Now a feature film by Shirin Neshat

“Shahrnush Parsipur is a courageous, talented woman and
above all a great writer.” —Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis

“Charming yet powerful . . . transcendent, timeless.”

—Publishers Weekly

$15.95 paper • 978-1-55861-452-9 • 192 pages • Rights: World X Italy,

Malayalam, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden

books By Marilyn French

The Love Children
“A fictionalized memoir that is perfect reading for the girls
we once were, and for the new generation of girls we
cherish today.” —Stella Duffy

$15.95 paper • 978-1-55861-606-6 • 326 pages • Rights: World X Denmark,

Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden

From Eve to Dawn

A History of Women in the World
“No history you will read, post-French, will ever look the
same again.”
—Margaret Atwood

Volume I: Origins: From Prehistory to the First Millennium

$19.95 paper • 978-1-55861-565-6 • 368 pages

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index
Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 21
Aidoo, Ama Ata, 25
Al-Joundi, Darina, 14
Allan, Tuzyline Jita, 25
Answer/La Respuesta,
The, 25
Arenal, Electa, 25
Baghdad Burning, 24
Benson, Stéphane, 17
Brown Girl, Brownstones,
27
Bryant, Dorothy, 27
Bukhari, Safiya, 21
Celebrate People’s
History, 6
Changes, 25
Citizenship, 16
Complaints And
Disorders, 26
Dabashi, Hamid, 24
Danticat, Edwidge, 27
Davis, Angela Y., 21
Day Nina Simone
Stopped Singing, The,
14
De Jager, Marjolijn, 14
de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés,
25
Departing At Dawn, 24
Despentes, Virginie, 17
Dreaming of Baghdad, 24
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 20, 26
Einstein, Mara, 16
English, Deirdre, 20, 26
Finley, Karen, 12
Foster, Frances Smith, 22
French, Marilyn, 23
From Eve to Dawn, 23
From Madea to Michelle,
19
From Wonso Pond, 22
Ghazoul, Ferial J., 24
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,
27
Girls for Gender Equity,
8 Rajmahal, 19
31  index
Gordon-Zolov, Terri, 16 Rape New York, 10
Govrin, Michal, 4 Reality Shows, The, 12
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, Revenge, 18
22 Ridgeway, James, 24
Hammer!, 21 Riverbend, 24
Hammer, Barbara, 21 Rizzuto, Rahna Reiko, 2
Hammond, Paul, 24 Rogers, Robin, 16
Hanna, Kathleen, 12 Rollins, Joe, 16
Hedges, Elaine R., 27 Rosner, Jennifer, 20
Hey, Shorty!, 8 Sapphire, 18
Hiroshima in the Segal, Lore, 26
Morning, 2 Sengupta, Kamalini,
His Own Where, 18 19
Hold On to the Sun, 4 Sharlet, Jocelyn, 23
Horn, Barbara, 27 Sicherman, Carol, 26
Huppuch, Meghan, 8 Smith, Anna Deavere,
Hurston, Zora Neale, 17
25 Smith, Joanne N., 8
If A Tree Falls, 20 Solnit, Rebecca, 6
I Love Myself When I Soueif, Ahdaf, 24
Am Laughing, 25 Still Alive, 26
James, Stanlie M., 22 Still Brave, 22
Jones, Ann, 22 STREB, 17
Jordan, June, 18 Streb, Elizabeth, 17
Kacimi, Mohammed, Talattof, Kamran, 23
14 Test, The, 27
Kang Kyŏng-ae, 22 Van Deven, Mandy, 8
Karim, Persis M., 23 Walker, Alice, 25
King Kong Theory, 17 War Before, The, 21
Kluger, Ruth, 26 Washington, Mary Helen,
Leo, Jana, 10 25, 27
Lisé, Gloria, 24 Weldon, Alice, 24
Love Children, The, 23 Whitehorn, Laura, 21
MacPhee, Josh, 6 Wicomb, Zoë, 26
Madame Curie Complex, Witches, Midwives &
The, 20 Nurses, 20
Market, 16 Women Who Kill, 22
Marshall, Paule, 27 Women Without Men,
Miller, Judith G., 4 23
Moore, Honor, 18 Wright, Marcia, 26
Nasrin, Taslima, 18 Yellow Wall-Paper,
Parsipur, Shahrnush, 23 The, 27
Perry, Samuel, 22 You Can’t Get Lost In
Phelan, Peggy, 17 Capetown, 26
Powell, Amanda, 25 Young, Courtney, 19
Zangana, Haifa, 24
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