Bøger udgivet af Feminist Press at The City University of New York

This gritty, sweeping novel recreates the life story of an American working-class woman and burgeoning political activist in the early 20th century.

A pedagogical primer on integrating Black feminist thought, critical race studies, and America's most beloved pop star.

A young Guatemalan immigrant's adolescence is shaped by her journey to the US, as she grapples with Chapina tradition and American culture.

A queer poet documents depression and grief in this autobiographical novel-in-verse.

A debut story collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the Balkans.

A dynamic celebration of trans male culture, this essential collection makes visible a decade of FTM and transmasculine experiences.

Both on and off the rez, interlinked characters contend with history and identity as contemporary members of the Seneca Nation. Debut writer Melissa Michal weaves together an understated and contemplative collection exploring what it means to be Native. In these stories, the longing for intergenerational memory slips into everyday life: a teenager struggles to understand her grandmother''s silences, a family seeks to reconnect with a lost sibling, and a young woman searches for a cave that''s called to her family for generations.

In this surrealist novel, a woman’s feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay.

Post-rehab, Maggie Terry has one goal: keep her head down, and rebuild her life in hopes that she''ll be reunited with her daughter. But her first day as a private investigator lands her in the middle of a big one: actress strangled. If Maggie shakes her ghosts - dead NYPD partner, vicious ex, steadfast drug habit - then maybe she can crack the case.

In these stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights of hand: a grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains; a consort finds herself a new assignment; a religious man struggles to keep his demons at bay. Central to the book is Isabella Sin, a smalltown girl transformed into a prisoner of conscience in Malaysia''s most notorious detention camp.

Structured like a Creole quadrille, this lyrical novel is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. While Dambury''s English debut is a memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, it is also a celebration of the vibrancy and resilience of Guadeloupeans.

Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their children - piloting airplanes, washing floors, or dancing at a strip club - this book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent in a positive light by introducing the idea of bodily labour. We''re reminded that, while every mama''s work looks different, every mama works to make their baby''s world better.

A candid and encouraging guidebook about creating art as political upheaval, censorship, and oppression become normal.

This coming-of-age story from Equatorial Guinea chronicles a teenage girl’s quest to find out who she is.

Whether they're dismissing princes or saving them, each of these diverse heroines remains the center of her own legend.

Beijing Comrades--the first gay novel published in mainland China--is a tale of capitalism, love, power, and secrecy.

Spurred on by nineties ''family values'' campaigns and determined to better herself through education, a teen mom talks her way into college. Disgusted by an overabundance of phallocratic narratives and Freytag''s pyramid, she turns to a subcultural canon of resistance and failure. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, it documents the survival of a demonised single mother figuring things out.

The feminist folktales collected in Sea Girl upend any notion that women are doomed to be sentimental, meek, or submissive. In these classic tales, heroines unflinchingly wade monstrous rivers, escape ogres'' nests, and outsmart desperate sharks and hungry tigers. And while defending their families and villages, they always determine their own fate.

Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticism takes on beauty parlor politics, Black Lives Matter, and Rihanna.

Insidious assumptions of sex and violence poison a small-town family, resulting in a daughter taking survival to the extreme.

Indie artist and punk queen Brontez Purnell's long-awaited novel is an uninhibited exploration of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama.

After two decades in prison, an ex-radical navigates reentry in New York by walking a series of high-strung, wealthy pooches.

Newly illustrated, these classic tales remind us that girls everywhere have been the heroes of their own stories for centuries.