Includes photos and tributes to Lorde written after her death in 1992."Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet." —Adrienne Rich"This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me." —Alice Walker"The forthrightness and ferocity with which Audre Lorde greeted every social injustice is in full force in this courageous exploration." —Amazon.com

    

    Hand Games, poems of the first section, is the daily bread of my past two years or so. They are the artifacts of loving in a personal way, of struggles in a wide and a narrower frame, of planting and harvesting in the earth and on paper, of building new friendships and mourning the death of friends. They speak of zucchini and oaks and cats, of jogging and writing, of nuclear power plants and suicide, of fat and of street hassling. ”The Lunar Cycle forms the second part. I first heard of the lunar calendar in my childhood, when I asked why Passover falls on a different date every year and was answered that it falls on Nisan 14, the fourteenth day of the lunar month of Nisan. The next time I came across the moon-month was in reading Robert Graves in search of the old goddess religions. But the lunar calendar has really only been an intimate part of my life since I moved near the ocean and the bay and had to become conscious of the tides; for one thing, to get the sweet Wellfleet oysters. For more precise understanding I owe a lot to Nancy F. W.Passmore of the Luna Press, who every year produces The Lunar Calendar with thirteen months, their old Celtic names, associations from around the world, time of moon rise and set and all the phases. It tells me at a glance when my period will come and when I can expect to ovulate, and it is the most beautiful calendar I have ever seen, with the months in the form of spirals rather than grids.”Not being constrained by commerce to produce a calendar to sell by January first, Roman time, I begin when my year opens, in the spring; with Nisan, the first month of the Jewish religious year – although I have used the Celtic names, as does The Lunar Calendar, in homage to that labor of love. Rediscovering the lunar calendar has been a part of rediscovering women’s past, but it has also meant for me a series of doorways to some of the non-rational aspects of being a living woman: Thus The Lunar Cycle, explorations of my last two years.”

    Alan Francis and collaborator Cindy Cashman distill years of research and thousands of interviews to reveal the most comprehensive understanding of men's knowledge and understanding of the opposite sex in Everything Men Know About Women.Fiercely frank and brilliantly insightful, this book spells out everything men know about such topics as:Making friends with womenRomancing womenAchieving emotional intimacy with womenMaking commitments to womenSatisfying women in bedThat's right, this book is completely BLANK!  A great gag gift for your boyfriend or husband, for a birthday or anniversary, or just to give to your girlfriends when you want a laugh!

    Joanna Russ's On Strike Against God is remarkable for its deft intertwining of many themes: not only the overt one of coming out, but many intricately (and inevitably) interlaced stories of alienation, a search for community and rebellion against how our society defines women.

    Often imitated, never replaced, Man-Made Language has become a cornerstone of modern feminist thought.

    

    It is the winner of the Noma Award.

    Her analysis leads her to considerable criticism of many commonly-held feminist views, but from it emerges the outline of a new feminism which sacrifices neither rationality nor radicalism.

    Here one learns that the most ancient treatise on education in France was written by a woman; and medicine was practiced regularly by women in the thirteenth century; that in the twelfth century the Order of Fontevraud gathered both monks and religious sisters under the authority of an abbess.This is a systematic study that provides a multitude of concrete examples. No aspect of feminine activity in the course of the medieval periods is neglected: administration of property, professions and commerce, the intellectual life, even politics; writers, educators, sovereigns, and those who enlivened the royal courts. Moreover, the author draws from the history of law and the history of events and social customs to sketch something never before attempted, an outline of the evolution of the power of women. This is a classic work without reference to which any inquiry into the questions addressed here must remain incomplete.

    Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water.According to Irigaray, water is the element Nietzsche fears most. She uses this element in her narrative because for her there is a complex relationship between the feminine and the fluid. Irigaray's method is to engage in an amorous dialogue with the male philosopher. In this dialogue, she ruptures conventional discourse and writes in a lyrical style that defies distinction between theory, fiction, and philosophy.

    The Nazi Connection was originally published in Ms., October and November 1980. Cover design by Adil Dara.

    ‘Examples of living virtue disturb our repose and give birth to distressing comparisons.’ He was referring to Elizabeth Fry, the legendary 19th century social reformer who committed her life to helping others. One of the most remarkable women of her time, her philanthropic achievements included establishing a homeless shelter in London, campaigning for the abolition of slavery, founding a nursing school and improving conditions in prisons. But, like most women who take a stand against the establishment, Fry found herself the target of the hostility of those who benefited from the unfair systems she rebelled against. Facing disapproval as well from both the Church and her fellow campaigners, Fry was tortured by self-doubt. In this perceptive biography, based in part on Elizabeth Fry’s own journals, June Rose delves below the surface to show Fry as she really was – complex, contradictory, but courageously defying the conventions of the age. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and Long Walk to Freedom. Praise for Elizabeth Fry: ‘Well-written, enthralling and a real inspiration’ - Church Times ‘The value of this splendid new biography is that it enables us to get to know her better than ever before’ - Sunday Telegraph ‘It is a work of scholarly research, written with a simple clarity’ - Hampstead & Highgate Express June Rose was an English author and biographer. Rose focused on women’s issues and was renowned for exposing a different, and often controversial, side to many historical figureheads such as in Modigliani and Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution.

    This title includes classic and contemporary selections that represent both feminist and anti-feminist viewpoints in an examination of women's lives, and the ways in which women can effect alternatives to traditional gender roles.

    The Girl I Left Behind is her scrapbook of our times, an examination of the personal and political issues that determine women's lives.

    

    She explores such principles as androgyny and virginity, freeing them from the limited social context in which we have trapped them, and argues the necessity of feminine rituals in history. In her search for the original forms of the feminine, Hall guides us on a journey though myths and symbols, confronting them not in the rational mode of the language itself, but on the deeper level of the unconscious life.

    Pogrebin shows how to nourish the unique person in every child. She explodes the myths, cliches, and stereotypes of femininity and masculinity and shows traditional childrearing methods can actually be harmful to children. Her new guidelines point the way to role-free family life and prove that nonsexist parenting can be physically and emotionally good for your child.

    A first feminist, vegetarian, and seasonal cookbook... different, creative, easy-to-follow and delicious". -- Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine

    She offers an interpretation of Beauvoir's relationship to Sartre and to other women, and reads Beauvoir as a writer of depression. She also considers Beauvoir the greatest feminist theorist of our century and sees The Second Sex as the founding text for materialist feminism.

    "Affirms the right to dignity of feminist workers, lesbians, and all minorities." Mary Tall Mountain, Feminist Review"

    Traces the involvement of poor, minority, and middle class American women in household work, wage labor, social reform, and depression and wartime labor forces.