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Set in San Francisco in the 1970s, Winter's Edge is an acclaimed working-class feminist novel.

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties.Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible among people isolated and driven by strong feelings of love and hate that, unexpressed, lead inevitably to doom. Reviewers in the thirties prai...

The remarkable autobiography of one of the founders of modern feminism.

Sexy, beautiful, but frustrated... a neglected housewife finds the delights and degradations of forbidden love.

Not since The French Lieutenant's Woman has a story captured the passion and desperation of love in different historical frames.

Finally, the book that gives you permission to be fat, fashionable, and fabulous.

The leading journal of feminist scholarship takes on what it means to go viral.

A jealous husband frames his wife for his own suicide so she'll never love again.

Engage upends your sense of belonging and reboots reality.

Our obsession with disaster, why we ruin everything as we struggle to fix it at the same time.

The long-awaited debut novel destined to join the ranks of "On the Road" and "Naked Lunch.

- A moving and hilarious coming of age story about love, sex, and attention deficit disorder.

Yoohoo, Mrs. Goldberg! Faye Moskowitz is the modern Mollie Goldberg, with added pizzazz: wry, sardonic, but full of warmth.

From orthodoxy to chaos, a major artist wrestles with her influences.

A powerful account of the woman who made abortion her business.

New edition of this bestselling book about the history of sexism in the medical profession.

Our lives are filled with devices, organizations, and agreements to keep our bodies, loved ones, and belongings "safe." These practices assuage our fears, but what does it mean to be or feel safe? Is safety synonymous with security, stability, or stasis? Is it a condition, or the negation of threat, risk, and danger? Can we ever truly be safe? Alyson M. Cole is the author of "The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on T...

Feminism is changing the lives of women and men throughout Japan.

An important contribution to the resurrection of the lost history of women in the arts." -Publishers WeeklyIn Her Own Image collects the work of Western women artists, past and present, in a stunning array of forms: fiction, poetry, autobiography, essay, journal and letter writing, sculpture, painting, graphics, photography, ceramics, needlework, music, and dance.

An Estate of Memory is a spiritual novel of growth and regeneration, even in the midst of brutality and death, that recreates in precise detail the daily lives of Jewish women in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. The taste and feel of the days and seasons, of the varieties of work, are palpable, and the pre-camp memories of the prisoners braid the narrative brilliantly. The novel testifies to survival through cooperation, as it focuses on f...