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In this evocative memoir, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.Passionate, fierce, and lyrical,Fault Linesfollows one womans evolution as a writer at homeand in exileacross continents and cultures. Meen...

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This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there's never been a better time to fight for justice. Responding to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement in 2017, sex workers from across the industryhookers ...

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Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical. She now had a ...

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A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.A close friend and protg of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (19211986) wrote and wrote feverishl...

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Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on womens bodies. InBody Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes,award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the glob...

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A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, Maria Fernanda Ampuero's writing is "e;raw and savage"e; as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo).An undocumented...

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Collecting the best of the underground blogWeird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.Launched in 2014,Weird Sisterproudly staked out a corner of the internet where feminist writ...

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A humane and heart-rending memoir exploring what it means to live outside the normative boundaries imposed by society, from an award-winning trans writer and performer (The Guardian).InNone of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary, Trav...

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Irish novelist Soula Emmanuels debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desirecharting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transpl...

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For porn stars, coming out is a process that never ends.To the uninitiated, the idea of a career in the adult film industry may come with stigma that porn performers and sex workers have long fought to shake off. For many, that fight begins with o...

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This shimmering debut story collection intimately explores race, identity, and the pursuit of the American Dream in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey.Ill Give You a Reason explores the lives of immigrants and first-gen...

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A vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico.The visceral, wildly imaginative stories in Bad Seed flick through working-class scenes of contemporary Puerto Rico, where fr...

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In partnership with Dutton Books, Amazon Literary Partnership, and Feminist Press,Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthologyis a multi-genre showcase of the best writing from todays next-gen voices and leaders.Do you know what...

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In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in an own-voices story of trans witchcraft.Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a wit...

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Combining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgeralds experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the major events that shaped her life, and intersper...

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A woman’s tortured past is reawakened when a twisted murderer strikes close to home in this “original, spellbinding, and horrifying read” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   Kate is a young woman whose mother is dying of can...

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A “very intelligent, sensitive, and compelling” novel of adolescent rebellion and sexual awakening at a girls’ boarding school (Anthony Burgess).   Set in a repressive British girls’ boarding school in the late 1920s&m...

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A modern classic of race, labor rights, and lesbian love written “with an authenticity, a force, a caring that deepens and enlarges us" (Tillie Olsen, author of Tell Me A Riddle).   Brought together by the tragic death of...

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"e;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......

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The third volume in this beautifully illustrated anthology features traditional tales of heroic women from China to Canada and beyond.Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were ma...

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The New York Times–bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want sends out a ‘call for renewed feminist action, based on “the spirit and ethic of love’” (Kirkus Reviews).   A decade before the Seneca Falls Conv...

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An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Fr...

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Since the fall of Bagdad, women’s voices have been largely erased, but four months after Saddam Hussein’s statue fell, a 24 year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging.   In 2003, a twenty-four-year-old woman from Baghdad began blo...

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The first volume of the New York Times–bestselling author’s monumental and unprecedented history: “Consistently thought-provoking” (The New York Review of Books).   The internationally celebrated author of Th...

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“Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French’s massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.” —Publishers Weekly   This volume of New York Times–bes...

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Defiant writing by the first feminist of the Americasthe Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruzin response to the church officials that tried to silence her.Known as the first feminist of the Americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz enjo...

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A manifesto for the workplace feminist that moved Oscar winner Jane Fonda to exclaim “Please, please, please. All working women must read this book!”   Enough about “breaking the glass ceiling.” Here are blueprints for...

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