Featured Items
Hear from women in their own voices.
- Author
- Fran Leeper Buss
- Description
- Based on more than 100 oral histories primarily of heterosexual working-class women from various cultural, geographical, and racial backgrounds conducted from 1976 to 2016.
- Year
- 2017
- Editor
- Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell
- Description
- Includes biographies of activists, interviews, testimonies, and scholarly assessments of the intersectional and multigenerational movement.
- Year
- 2018
- Author
- Margaret Randall
- Description
- Memoir by the lesbian activist, author of more than 150 books, and intellectual who escaped political punishment in Mexico by fleeing to New York, was deported in 1984 for her political writings and activities in Latin America, and regained her citizenship in 1989.
- Year
- 2020
- Author
- Ina C. Seethaler
- Description
- Covers primarily six texts from women who migrated from Ghana, Iran, Mexico, and South Korea.
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Josie R. Johnson, Arleta Little, and Carolyn Holbrook
- Description
- Autobiography of civil rights worker Josie R. Johnson, who was born in segregated Texas in 1930, worked for the Urban League, and became a community activist and university administrator in Minneapolis.
- Year
- 2019
- Editor
- Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang
- Description
- The 22 selections by women in the United States include two fictional works and three poems.
- Year
- 2019
- Author
- Anna Wiener
- Description
- Focuses on the bigoted tech culture in Silicon Valley during 2013–18.
- Year
- 2020
- Author
- Ann Snitow
- Description
- Covers Ann Snitow's work in Europe for more than 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Snitow died after she finished the manuscript but before the book was published. Judith Levine and Katie Detwiler shepherded it through publication.
- Year
- 2020
- Author
- Dianna Hunter
- Description
- Memoir about the lesbian feminist movement in the rural Midwest during the 1960s and 1970s.
- Year
- 2018
- Author
- Susan M. Ouellette
- Description
- Includes essays about Phebe Orvis and the national climate of the period and a transcript of the detailed journal of this 19-year-old Quaker from Vermont who financed her education at the Middlebury Female Seminary through textile work, got married, and staked a claim on a homestead in Upstate New York.
- Year
- 2017
