Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and...

multicultural anthology

Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life...

"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended . . . " —Choice" . . . the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to...

Abolitionist Archives, Feminist Futures takes up the work of three iconic feminist thinkers--Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway--to ask how each author's vision of work, the family, and the carceral state can expand contemporary...

The dangerous belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to "traditional" values is a myth that has long prospered in American politics, playing an especially vicious role in the development of totalitarianism in the West. How did...

Surveys the history of rape in war, riot, and revolution and the origins of American rape laws, examines interracial, homosexual, and child rape, and profiles the police-blotter rapist and representative victims

The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI,...

The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history. Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender Trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power,...

A raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations--from a writer Roxane Gay calls "vibrant and thoughtful." Gorgeous, badass, and practically waiting to pounce, Good Woman: A...

"Sex Isn't Real examines the multiple, conflicting enactments of sex produced by scientists and clinicians in the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Beans Velocci argues that cisness is not a natural state and provides a...

A bold and provocative book centering the voices of trans women and femmes in the pursuit of pleasure and gender liberation.   What are the possibilities of pleasure when we stop labeling our desires? In Trans Pleasure, Brandon Andrew Robinson answers...

A Hymn to Life tells Gisèle Pelicot’s stunning story in her words, offering solace and hope for shame to change sides in conversations around sexual violenceIn 2024, Gisèle Pelicot inspired millions of people with her astonishing courage and dignity as...

A new Penguin Vitae hardcover edition of Audre Lorde’s trailblazing biomythography that cemented the poet’s legacy as a leading voice in intersectional feminism and 20th century literature.In her 1982 genre-fluid memoir, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name,...

In 1925 the publishers of Broadway Brevities were tried for running an extortion operation targeting New York's social and cultural elites. While the first version of the magazine whispered gossip in columnists' suggestive innuendo, later incarnations...

A taboo-bursting, personal and cultural tour through different sexual fetishes that asks: Do we have the courage to look at our desires directly, and express them unapologetically?The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove...