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Brave Journeys: Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage

by David Mixner & Dennis Bailey

In Stranger Among Friends, renowned activist, political adviser, and White House insider David Mixner offered a compelling account of his decades-long fight for human rights and the challenges he faced as a...


Life on the Line: One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival

by Solange De Santis

"Engaging--. Terrific--. Takes us over the collar line with grace and authority."--The New York Times

As a veteran reporter throughout the "downsizing" years of the auto industry in the United States and Canada,...


Zami A New Spelling of My Name: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography

by Geraldine Audre Lorde

“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage...


Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality

by Neal Gabler

"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --The New York Times Book Review

From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author...


Come to the Edge

My Parents Were Awesome: Before Fanny Packs and Minivans, They Were People Too

by Eliot Glazer

NEWSFLASH: Your mom and dad weren’t always parents.  They used to be people—and they were awesome

 

They bathed you. They fed you. They raised you to become the person you are today. Your parents are an...


Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

by Jacqueline L. Tobin & Raymond G. Dobard

"There are five square knots on the quilt every two inches apart. They escaped on the fifth knot on the tenth pattern and went to Ontario, Canada. The monkey wrench turns the wagon wheel toward Canada on a bear's...


Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life

by Mark Matousek

Since the days of the first primitive tribes, we have tried to determine why one man is good and another evil. Mark Matousek arrives at the answer in Ethical Wisdom.

Contrary to what we've been taught in our...


Talk Dirty to Me

by Sallie Tisdale

We live in a world in which almost every public image--every interaction--carries an element of sexual desire.  And yet it is nearly impossible for us to talk openly and honestly about sex.  Talk Dirty to...


Sister to Sister

by Patricia Foster

Sister to Sister includes essays and stories by:

Meena Alexander

Robin Behn

Louise DeSalvo

Erika Duncan

Maria Flook

Patricia Foster

Bonnie Friedman

Donna Gordon

Lucy Grealy

Joy Harjo

Bell Hooks

Pam Houston

Jesse Lee Kercheval...


A Miracle Every Day

by Marita Golden

A Miracle Everyday takes an illuminating and intimate look at flourishing single-mother families. Single motherhood and the children of single mothers have been the subject of overwhelmingly negative statistical...


Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race

by Marita Golden & Susan Shreve

Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing...


Minding the Body

by Patricia Foster

A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and  non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the  psychological and political aspects of a woman's body in  today's culture. An important and much-needed  book...


Virtually Normal

by Andrew Sullivan

An unprecedented work from the brilliant young editor of The New Republic--who is celebrated also as an incisive defender of the equality of homosexuals--Virtually Normal is an impassioned, reasoned, subtle,...


Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

by Adele Logan Alexander

This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our...


Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69

by Miriam Horn

When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS." But by the time they graduated...


The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony

by Pamela Paul

The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony is a pioneering study of first marriages lasting five years or less and ending without children, and of the changing face of matrimony in America.

According to...


War Torn

by Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett & Jurate Kazickas

For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories...


Embracing the Infidel

by Behzad Yaghmaian

An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris.  In this groundbreaking...


Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

by David R. Roediger

In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?

From...