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Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction - Sabrina Chapadjiev (Editor), Bonfire Madigan Shive (Contributor), Silas Howard (Contributor), Kate Bornstein (Contributor), Carol Queen (Contributor), Fly (Contributor), Diane DiMassa (Contributor), Inga Muscio (Contributor), Daphne Gottlieb (Contributor), Annie Sprinkle (Contributor), Eileen Myles (Contributor), Cristy Road (Contributor), and Bell Hooks (Contributor)
In a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography, Nan Goldin, Eileen Myles, bell hooks, and other cutting-edge artists explore their use of art to survive madness, abuse, incest, depression, and the impulse toward self-destruction manifest in eating disorders, cutting, addiction, and contemplation of suicide. The book confronts the brutality many women and girls encounter in the world ar...
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Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States - Terence Kissack
By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack adds a new foundation to the history of homosexuality in the United States. The anarchist position on individual freedoms was used to defend same-sex partnerships and break down taboos within their own milieu, while bringing the challenge to the rest of society.
The trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, ...
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Strangers and Sisters: Women, Race and Immigration - Selma James (Editor)
This women's conference on race and immigration was hailed by the Black press in Britain as "a joyful and optimistic event" and an "overwhelming outpouring of information and viewpoints" which "generated a 'togetherness' never attained before." Women from many countries - including Argentina, India, Nigeria and trinidad; Ireland, Italy, Germany and the United States - describe their experience of daily life ...
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Shout Out: Women of Color Respond To Violence - Barbara Ige (Editor) and Maria Ochoa (Editor)
Shout Out addresses a range of responses to the injustices that women everywhere are sustaining in their daily lives: physical abuse, murder, rape, poverty, and psychological terror. Through critical examinations, creative nonfiction, and poetry, the contributors provide living testimony for the need to put an end to oppression and violence.
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Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy, and the Medical Abuse Of Women - Mariarosa Dalla Costa (Editor)
How much of contemporary medical practice still derives from a practice rooted in the witch-hunts that plagued Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, and burned at the stake, after horrible torture, hundreds of thousands of midwives and healers along with other poor women — the greatest sexocide in recorded history? Women's bodies and their medical knowledge were burned on those stakes ...
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The Cost Of Privilege: Taking On The System Of White Supremacy and Racism - Chip Smith
The Cost of Privilege takes readers from the creation of the white race over three centuries ago to the present-day myth of a colorblind society; from the intersections of class, gender, and race to the concrete benefits and harsh underside of the privileges white people experience every day; from the victories when people allied across the color line to the failures of some of those alliances to hold...
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 3rd Edition - Gloria Anzaldua
Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps understandings of what a "border" is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, an...
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Dude, You're A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality In High School - C.J. Pascoe
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gen...
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Race, Gender and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic History of Women in the United States - Julie Matthaei and Teresa Amott
Race, Gender, and Work traces the lives of working women - American Indian, Chicana, European American, African American, Asian American, and Puerto Rican - to uncover the wealth and diversity of their contributions, both pain and unpaid, to our economic history.
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman On Sexism And The Scapegoating Of Femininity - Julia Serano
"With her first full-length book, biologist, writer and musician Serano positions herself as a Betty Friedan of the transsexual community. Making a case that trans discrimination is steeped in sexism and that trans activism is a feminist movement, Serano delivers a series of articulate, compelling and provocative essays that unmask many of the misconceptions surrounding transsexualism, gender and feminism. W...
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