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The world knows Florence Nightingale as "the lady with the lamp"-the revered founder of nursing as a respectable profession for women. But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly passionate feminist essay (a "brilliant polemic, " states Martha Vicinus), Nightingale denounces the lives of idleness she and other women of her clas...

The acclaimed Holocaust memoir declared "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight." -LA Times

This manifesto isn't about body positivity-it's about a fat revolution.

A pulpy, psychological tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the role of the perfect woman.

An interdisciplinary exploration of beauty and its ongoing redefinitions in the light of race, disability, class, gender, and sexuality.

This powerful, fact-based story is seen through the eyes of Hidden Doe, a young Native American girl who grows to maturity during the 1840s, when the U.S. government forces her people to leave their homeland in Iowa and make the long and bitter journey to a Kansas reservation. As she comes of age during this painful time, Hidden Doe is counseled in the ways of her people by her courageous grandmother, and soon also grows to know a young man wh...

Agnes Smedley, author of Daughter of Earth, worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. These 18 pieces-all out of print and most unavailable even in public libraries-are based on interviews with revolutionary women. They include descriptions of the massacre of feminists in the Canton commune, of the silk workers of Canton whose solidarity earns them the charge of lesbianism, and of Mother Tsai, a 60-year-old peasant who leads village w...

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A small patch of dry Asian land called the Tiny Kingdom serves as the home for a community of poor farmers and fisherfolk. The land, as poor as its people, holds no gold, silver, or other riches. For this reason, no country has ever waged war against the Tiny Kingdom, and the people have lived in peace for 100 years.But when Princess Mat Mat, ruler of the Tiny Kingdom, meets with her advisers to plan a great peace celebration, they bring bad n...

Go home!" is always a slur, but often also an impossibility, this collection explores the words' personal and political dimensions.

A young girl's curiosity about her teacher's sudden disappearance sets the stage for her community's resonant analyses of 1960s Pointe-à-Pitre.

This issue of WSQ exposes the effects of precarity on the current labor force.

This half-memoir, half-philosophical treatise is a meditation on the art of translation, and its potential for activism and humanist engagement.

A labyrinthine excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, this Gothic novel illustrates how gendered language can wield destructive power.

Introduced by Renée Watson, these stories stand as a testament to how strong girls are part of everyone's cultural heritage.

Psychiatric institutions and class difference doom two young lovers from the start in this dark romantic comedy.

Folly" tells the story of women without men, divorced or widowed or lesbian, workers in a textile plant in North Carolina in the 1970s, who are neighbors in a trailer camp, along with their aging mothers and teenage daughters. What brings them together-black women as well as white women-is the death of a sick baby left necessarily at home alone because there were no health care provisions in the male owned and run factory. After the baby's dea...

Mary White Ovington, a white selement worker, "vividly describes the experiences that shaped her life, " "Booklist, " including her pivotal role in the founding of the NAACP in the early 20th century.

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 international norm and reproduction by cloning have minimized aggression and overpopulation. The sexes have equal rights and status, racial tension has been eliminated through genetic intermixing, and scientists work closely with the governing body, th...

Basis for the famous film noir: a woman who kept men spellbound--even after her death.