For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted?relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture
This issue of WSQ is intended to open a larger dialogue among readers about the subject of power in the classroom, feminist pedagogies, mentoring relationships, and the impact various kinds of women t
The feminist folktales collected in Sea Girl upend any notion that women are doomed to be sentimental, meek, or submissive. In these classic tales, heroines unflinchingly wade monstrous rivers, escape
Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia—a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken o
“[With this] bold, insightful novel . . . Parsipur makes a stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Parsipur should be admired both as a coura
Marilyn French's 1977 novel The Women's Room epitomized the feminist movement and became one of the most influential books of our time. Now she has captured the complexities of life for the daughters
As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, "solution three" at first seems to be a peaceful answer to the world's problems. Homosexuality as an inter
This volume brings together prose from three decades of writing by Verena Stefan, one of the most influential contemporary feminist writers in the world. The original 1975 German publication of Shed
This story offers a rare, funny, bitter, feminist look at war from women actively engaged in it. Published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet...(on the Western Front) is a novel in aut
In this second volume of reissued classic folktales, a Punjabi woman outwits seven ruthless thieves, an Incan girl restores harmony to the empire, and a mischievous Norwegian lass thwarts her entitled
From Japan to Norway, Scotland to Sudan, Tatterhood brings readers twelve folk talesand twelve women whose cunning, hard work, and physical strength are celebrated in each story. A family of three wom
Winner of a 1989 Lambda Literary Award, this collection of twenty-four entertaining and haunting 19th-and 20th-century tales from the US, Britain, and Latin America reclaims a literary tradition that
In this rare first-hand account of the private world of a Cairo harem during the years before Egypt declared independence in 1922, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult lif
“A stunning multigenre anthology that simultaneously conveys the inherent diversity of human experience, as well as humanity’s most universal longing encapsulated in one endlessly unpacked word: home.
This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women’s poetry available anywhere. As diverse as Vietnam itself, these co
Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolutio
