Tag Archives: Women's Studies
A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life
by Felicia KornbluhHailed as “the first real chronicle of the reproductive rights movement of the past sixty years” (Linda Gordon, University Professor of History, NYU), A Woman’s…
Why We Can’t Sleep
by Ada CalhounAn instant New York Times bestseller—lauded by critics and TV personalities alike—and one of the most anticipated books of the year, Ada Calhoun’s Why…
Sharp
by Michelle DeanFrom celebrated literary critic Michelle Dean, a powerful portrait of ten women writers who managed to make their voices heard amid a culture of…
Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America
by Kathy Acker“Kathy Acker’s trancelike writing style peels away the layers of reality. . . . Acker is an expert at evoking this shadowy realm of…
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
by Gerri Hirshey“[I]n her vivid, impassioned history of women in rock, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, music journalist Gerri Hirshey takes a long, hard,…
Sexing the Millennium
by Linda Grant“Grant is passionate yet blessedly free of rhetoric and gush. And how welcome is her evocation of the [sexual revolution’s] optimism–even its loopy na’vet”…
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
by Catherine Millet“A smoldering slim volume that will color your cheeks quicker than the midday sun. . . . In the book, [Millet] unabashedly chronicles three…
Portrait of an Eye
by Kathy Acker“Kathy Acker’s trancelike writing style peels away the layers of reality… Acker is an expert at evoking this shadowy realm of belief and emotion…
Nike Is a Goddess
by Lissa Smith“We ought to pay attention to the world of professional sports. What happens at the elite levels makes its way into our culture.” –from…
My Mother: Demonology
by Kathy Acker“What makes this book powerful is the archetypal punch behind each image, a punch that comes from an unknown assailant dressed in red wearing…
