Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Female authors share remarkable accounts of feminist movements and figures, detailing narratives of women through history as they make it.
(In order of publication
Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician
By: Alice Rothchild
A remarkable autobiography—written entirely in free verse—of Alice Rothchild’s journey from 1950’s good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine.
The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life
By Muriel Fox
A comprehensive, indexed memoir about the Second Wave women’s movement by the cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Muriel Fox offers rare, firsthand stories of 29 women and one man built mainly from her own hundreds of letters, clippings, notes, and photographs that she archived in her “Feminism Files.”
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti
Talking to the Girls is a written memorial to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, bringing together stories from writers, artists, activists, scholars, and family members of the Triangle workers to speak on this singular, tragic event that had a remarkable impact.
Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe
By Ann Snitow,
Foreword by Susan Faludi
Visitors tells the story of the well-known professor and feminist activist Ann Snitow’s adventures as an organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With wit and empathy, Snitow captures change as it unfolds and presents extraordinary insight into the origins and development of an internationalist feminism that is still evolving today.
Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride
A disability rights activist tells the story of her liberation from oppressive standards of normalcy, showing that freedom comes not through cure, but through organizing to end exclusion from public and social life.
Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970–1992
By Sabra Moore
Forewords by Lucy R. Lippard and Margaret Randall
An account of the women’s art movement in New York City from 1970 to 1992 and how these women created politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, actions, and institutions.