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Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Mazdan, survivor of a wrecked marriage and the Revolution, worries about work, companionship, money. She listens to the Tellers repeat the tales of the Founders -- people like Rebecca Rainbow, Jonathan Mask of Wisdom and Li Ku Unquenchable Fire -- wondering about her place in the new order. Then strange things start to happen to her. There are omens and a divine messenger, she finds herself pregnant from a dream not listed in any of the dream...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Although not specifically feminist, this does pose a number of questions regarding gender identity and gender roles. As a man, Marion can go where he likes, when he likes. He is free to take public transport and stroll the banks of the Seine at night. As a woman, she is constantly pursued by male suitors and is restricted to the private realm of taxis and domestic interiors.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
There's more than cherished memories waiting for literature professor and sometime-detective Kate Fansler when she returns to the Theban, an exclusive preparatory school on Manhattan's Upper East Side for wealthy New York girls, to teach a seminar on Antigone. Because hidden behind the century-old doors of the Theban's hallowed halls lurks a real-life tragedy of ancient Greek proportions--and a parallel nightmare with a life all its own that's destined...
Author
Publisher
Published by University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Twenty fantasy stories dealing with women's social issues. In The Weremother, a she-werewolf is concerned whether the woman marrying her son can iron, Last Fridays is on the mothers of serial killers, and Whoever is on a girl who is torn between her birth mother and her adoptive mother.
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Follows Allegra from the age of three to thirteen as she illustrates her story of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s - pre-bas-mitzvah, pre-Jewish feminism, pre-having-a-destiny other than marriage, time. She contents with the narrowness, bigotries, and limitations of her family as she comes to recognize them.
46) Seven devils
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy's most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire's voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray. Eris has been assigned a new mission: to infiltrate a spaceship ferrying deadly cargo and return the intelligence gathered to the Resistance. But her partner for the mission, mechanic...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
How a Southern lady became a hippie. After discovering she is lesbian, Ellen Sommers divorces her husband, quits her job and follows her new love to a commune in California. From there it is downhill all the way, drugs, alcohol, the company of bomb throwers, bisexual love, on the run from police and a mental asylum. A look at the radicalism of the 1970s by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls.
Series
Publisher
Elly Blue Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Take a ride with us as we explore a future where trans and nonbinary people are the heroes. In worlds where bicycle rides bring luck, a minotaur needs a bicycle, and werewolves stalk the post-apocalyptic landscape, nobody has time to question gender. Whatever your identity you'll enjoy these stories that are both thought-provoking and fun adventures. Find out what the future could look like if we stopped putting people into boxes and instead empowered...
Author
Publisher
September Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Written by Sharon Blackie, these twelve, beautifully written stories are original for modern readers, but based on existing folklore and fairy tales. They all focus on women who have the ability to transform themselves, or who have been transformed or enchanted - who have the ability to shape-shift, to renew themselves, to cross over from one element to another - from land to water, this world and the Otherworld, woman-kind to wild creature. Blackie,...
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first and only detective novel begins with a murder to confound any mystery fan: a local attorney, Wade Vaughn, is found dead in his study with a bullet in his temple, a knife in his back, a gaping wound in his skull, a cord around his neck, and a poisoned whiskey glass by his side. As the plot unfolds, it reveals motives for murder as numerous as the means: Vaughn is an evil man who has abused and blackmailed clients, servants,...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
The memoirs of a triumphantly liberated eighteenth-century woman--of twentieth-century consciousness and aspirations--retrace her reacy, reckless, and reambunctious course through seduction, prostitution, motherhood, piracy, and various liaisons with partners of both sexes.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...
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