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A novel of breathtaking suspense, and a brilliant psychological portrait of a "Black Widow" serial killer.

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...

A spirited food writer on the trail of obsessive scientists and entrepreneurs who want to titillate our taste buds.

A novel that pays tribute the lives of seven aging women by one of East Africa's most celebrated writers.

An essential guide to navigating the workplace during pregnancy and early parenthood, including a state-specific guide to parents' rights.

Is the language of debt-"You owe me!"-sufficient to encompass ethical bonds and social justice?

A forty-three-year-old Latina stumbles her way to spiritual self-rescue through sexual adventures and small-time hustles.

Weeds" renders in decidedly feminist terms the harsh life of tobacco share croppers in Kentucky in ht early 20th century.

The collected stories of the American Book Award winning author of "Among the White Moon Faces

First published in 1874, Fettered for Life is both a page-turning melodrama and a classic of subversive literature. As young Laura Stanley struggles to make her way independently in New York City, she faces prejudices, limitations, and dangers based on her gender. She also encounters a colorful cast of villains and heroes representing a cross-section of New York society: a vile and corrupt judge, a working-class wife-batterer, a suffragist wom...

A literary event: the first novel by an Iraqi woman to be published in the United States.

This first and only comprehensive collection of the literary achievement of Meridel Le Sueur-artist, journalist, political activist, and feminist-includes her best and most representative fiction, reportage, and autobiography from every decade since the twenties. "The New York Times Book Review" wrote that this volume "inspires belief in the power of a writer-and a woman-to prevail against poverty, persecution and public neglect...[Le Sueur's]...

The first novel to center on the father-daughter relationship in an Italian American family.

Aging, lesbian consciousness, the difficulty of escaping from alcoholism-these are the themes of June Arnold's extraordinary novel, first published by Daughters in 1975. The novel stands squarely in the southern literary tradition, depicting with memorable hilarity a groupd of elderly female vigilantes who take local rape deference into their own hands. Critics and fellow writers have rightly lauded it as a classic of experimental fiction. It ...

A quintessential immigrant narrative, now acknowledged as a contemporary classic of Italian-American women's literature.

The Fashion issue pushes boundaries between art and commerce, reality and virtuality, the personal and the political.

Sapphic suburban housewife Frances seeks fulfillment and love from the odd girls and twilight lovers of small-town America's queer demi-monde.

A wealthy Israeli family becomes estranged as war and commerce increasingly define their lives.

Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.

To honor the 40th anniversary of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, journalist Perdita Huston travelled the world to gather this remarkable collection of oral histories of and about the often unknown leaders of a worldwide movement to bring women their reproductive rights. Drawing on personal interviews, Huston delineates the motivations, strategies, and heartaches of twelve pioneers-eight women, four men-both from the developing...