Women's Studies

Fiction. Women's Studies. The thirty-six stories in this anthology, all by women authors, center around female characters who follow their own paths and tell the powers-that-be what they don't want to hear. These women stand up for themselves, for each other, for their beliefs. The characters include housewives and high school students, a stand-up comedian, an artist, an attendant at a nursing home, several scientists.... read more

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Just before her father's sudden death, Cuban-American artist Veronica Gonzalez is offered her first gallery exhibit, a real chance to break into the art world... read more

Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Introduction by Marion Lynn. CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTORY READER, THIRD EDITION, brings together articles on themes and topics at the forefront of feminist inquiry and research. Compiled of articles previously published in one of Canada's oldest feminist journals, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, it offers a unique and historical perspective of feminism as well as provides an excellent introduction to feminist thought in Canada... read more

Poetry. Translated from the Swedish and the German by Samuel Charters. Edith Södergran is a wonder, and WE WOMEN brings together poetry that spans her lifetime-a lifetime of sickness and solitude where she sang and communed with nature... read more

Poetry. Drama. Translated from the Greek by Keyne Cheshire. Cheshire's translation inhabits the territory of American myth-the Wild West. With its harsh landscapes and larger-than-life heroes, it is a world both familiar and distant, a world that still resonates within the American psyche... read more

Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. In this collection, the authors illuminate the struggles and the successes encountered in the research partnership process. The authors come from a variety of disciplines, are at various stages of their academic careers, may or may not be part of the academy, adopt a variety of feminist lenses, have a range of research partners, and focus on a range of research topics... read more

Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Whether scholarly or popular, today's commentaries on human dilemmas increasingly invoke empathic ways of understanding. Eleven authors, based mostly in Canada, show how their positions and perspectives have been changed by working against the grain... read more

Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. MIN FAMI: ARAB FEMINIST REFLECTIONS ON IDENTITY, SPACE, AND RESISTANCE is an anthology that cradles the thoughts of Arab feminists, articulated through personal critical narratives, academic essays, poetry, short stories, and visual art... read more

Poetry. Women's Studies. Book of poems arising from the ephemeral sand islands of the Texas Gulf Coast and the wild child Australian outback where Hancock was raised by itinerant artists... read more

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Women's Studies. Ann Elizabeth Carson looks to the past from the perspective of a contemporary feminist in her exploration of similarities between the women's coded language and that used by those working on the Underground Railway. The positioning of laundry on a line and particular quilted patterns were used to convey, for instance, whether a man/woman or a travel route was safe... read more

Poetry. Art. Women's Studies. FABULAS FEMINAE contains two dozen profiles of famous women in a collaborative book project created by Susan Bee and Johanna Drucker. These two distinguished artists have combined their talents to produce a work that is contemporary in tone, a minor monumental tribute to a diverse gallery of heroic women from across history... read more