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Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Common Notions) by Silvia Federici Publisher Comments Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization. Originally inspired by Federici's organizational work in... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Staging Desires: Kusakabe Kimbei's Meiji Femininity by Mio Wakita Publisher Comments Closely examining staged images of Japanese femininity, this study centers on the mid-Meiji souvenir photography of Kusakabe Kimbei, approaching from the artists perspective while referencing his cultures visual and traditional practices. The analysis... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $79.00 New - Trade Paper
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My Escape: An Autobiography by Benoite Groult Publisher Comments "Young people today can't imagine what women went through during the twentieth century," explains Benoîte Groult in My Escape, her confessional autobiography. Born in 1920 in Paris, she obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years... (read more) Available October 23, 2012 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Miradas Transatlanticas: El Periodismo Literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures) by Alicia Rita Rueda-acedo Publisher Comments Women’s voices routinely have been muted or omitted entirely when a nation assembles its historical narrative. In Miradas Transatlánticas: El periodismo literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero, Alicia Rita Rueda-Acedo examines the... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $45.00 New - Trade Paper
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Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway (PostHumanities) by Arthur Kroker Publisher Comments As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Butler leads readers to rethink the... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences) by Sally Hines Publisher Comments With contributions from established and emerging scholars, this collection draws on original research to consider recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. The book bridges... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism by Kira Cochrane Publisher Comments Interviews from Gloria Steinem to Oprah Winfrey to Nawal El Saadawi, and pieces by authors from Erica Jong to bell hooks to Beth Ditto—the very best of the Guardian's feminist writing The feminist movement of the last 40 years... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Feminism's Movements: From Women's Liberation to Identity Politics to Anti-Capitalism by Nancy Fraser Publisher Comments Nancy Fraser's powerful new book documents the "movements of feminism" and the shifts in the feminist imaginary since the 1970s. Fraser follows the history of feminism from the ferment of the New Left, during which "Second Wave" feminism emerged as a... (read more) Available March 2013 Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War: Women's Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Early Modern Cultural Studies) by Nancy Fisher Publisher Comments After surviving a severe case of influenza in 1918, Katherine Anne Porter observed, 'It simply divided my life, cut across it.' The 1918 influenza pandemic spanned the volatile early twentieth century, a time period that included the end of World War I... (read more) Available July 3, 2012 Your price: $99.25 New - Hardcover
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Feminism's Movements: From Women's Liberation to Identity Politics to Anti-Capitalism by Nancy Fraser Publisher Comments Nancy Fraser's powerful new book documents the "movements of feminism" and the shifts in the feminist imaginary since the 1970s. Fraser follows the history of feminism from the ferment of the New Left, during which "Second Wave" feminism emerged as a... (read more) Available March 2013 Your price: $95.00 New - Hardcover
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Regenerating Bodies: Tissue and Cell Therapies in the Twenty-First Century (Genetics and Society) by Julie Kent Publisher Comments This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global tissue economies the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $146.50 New - Hardcover
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Canadian Women and the Struggle for Equality by Lorna R. Marsden Publisher Comments What range of possibilities might appear on the horizon to a young woman today as she contemplates her future compared to those envisioned by a young woman 150 years ago? And how would her daily life be different? The degree of change in women's lives in... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $36.75 New - Hardcover
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Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction by Sabrina Chapadjiev Publisher Comments A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and... (read more) Available August 7, 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Genero, Nacion y Literatura: Emilia Pardo Bazan En La Literatura Gallega y Espanola (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures) by Carmen Pereira-muro Publisher Comments Emilia Pardo Bazán’s place in Spanish and Galician literatures has been hard won, and she has yet to receive the recognition she deserves. In Género, nación y literatura: Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura gallega y... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $50.95 New - Trade Paper
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No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays by Ellen Willis Publisher Comments With characteristic intelligence, wit, and feminist insight, Ellen Willis addresses democracy as she sees it: “a commitment to individual freedom and egalitarian self-government in every area of social, economic, and cultural life.” Moving... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation (Life Writing) by Eva C. Karpinski Publisher Comments Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $50.25 New - Trade Paper
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Queering Anarchism: Essays on Gender, Power, and Desire by Deric Shannon Publisher Comments “A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions.”... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals): Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 (Routledge Revivals) by Judith Lowder Newton Publisher Comments First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney 's Evelina, Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice and... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $133.50 New - Hardcover
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Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism by Julia Long Publisher Comments Anti-porn feminism is back. Countering the ongoing "pornification" of Western culture and society, anti-porn movements are powerfully re-emerging among a new generation of feminist activists in the UK and worldwide. Anti-Porn: The Resurgence... (read more) Available September 4, 2012 Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art) by Ewa Ponowska Ziarek Publisher Comments Despite the prominence of feminist theory in literary, film, and visual arts critique, feminist theories of aesthetics remain rare, obscuring a crucial chapter in women's history. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek redresses this oversight through a full articulation... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $108.75 New - Hardcover
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