The New Press - Gender Studies

From the award-winning biographer and historian, a brilliant dual biography of two of the most fascinating twentieth-century political activists—now in paperback

Queer America

A People's GLBT History of the United States

Vicki L. Eaklor

Paperback: A sweeping history of modern GLBT America, from the early twentieth century through the current fight for same-sex marriage

Ties That Bind

Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences

Sarah Schulman

Now in paperback: A brilliant, pioneering book by acclaimed novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman about how homophobia within families affects and diminishes all of us

Shattering the Glass

The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball

Pamela Grundy, Susan Shackelford

The first major history of the most popular women’s team sport in the United States

The Autonomy Myth

A Theory of Dependency

Martha Albertson Fineman

A brilliant exposé of the American myth of self-reliance and the reality of an interdependent society

Gender on Planet Earth

Ann Oakley

An iconoclastic feminist’s provocative analysis of gender inequality’s destructive effects on our society and our planet

Experiments in Knowing

Gender and Method in the Social Sciences

Ann Oakley

A breakthrough study of gender bias in the social sciences from a leading feminist scholar.

Dangerous Liaisons

Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality

Edited by Eric Brandt

A groundbreaking book on intersections of race & sexuality.

The Mask of Motherhood

How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn't

Susan Maushart

Erma Bombeck meets Naomi Wolf--a funny, articulate, right-on-the-money look at being a new mother in the 90's.

Women in the 19th Century

Categories and Contradictions

Linda Nochlin, Joelle Bolloch

A stunning full-color portfolio of classic paintings of nineteenth-century women.

Who's Afraid of Feminism?

Seeing through the Backlash

Edited by Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell

Leading feminist thinkers from around the world confront the backlash against women's rights.

"The Sex Side of Life"

Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education

Constance M. Chen

The World Out There

Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community

Michael Thomas Ford

An information-packed guide for gay and lesbian young people in the 1990s.

"What Happened to You?"

Writing by Disabled Women

Edited by Lois Keith

Hard-hitting and deeply moving stories, poems, and essays by more than thirty disabled women, winner of the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year Award.

What the Night Tells the Day

A Novel

Hector Bianciotti

A "lyrical and unforgettable" (Washington Post Book World) memoir of growing up gay in Perón's Argentina.

Try This at Home!

A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Winning Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights

Matthew A. Coles

A handbook for grassroots activism from the ACLU's director of gay and lesbian legal reform efforts.

A Queer Reader

2500 Years of Male Homosexuality

Edited by Patrick Higgins

A quotable sampler of the "pithy and profound" (New York) in gay male history.

Words of Fire

An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought

Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Coming to Terms

A Literary Response to Abortion

Edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody

The first literary anthology on America's most debated issue.

The Pink Glass Swan

Selected Feminist Essays on Art

Lucy R. Lippard

Selected writings from America's leading feminist art critic.

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian

A Literary Anthology

Edited by Bennett L. Singer

An award-winning collection of over fifty gay and lesbian coming-of-age stories.

WAC Stats

The Facts About Women

Women’s Action Coalition

An invaluable handbook of statistics about the realities of women's lives today.

Daughters of the Dust

The Making of an African American Woman’s Film

Julie Dash