Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
10 best books like Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology (Incite! Women of Color Against Violence): Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
| Author | Eric A. Stanley |
| ISBN | 1849350701 |
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics...
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
| Author | Maria Mies |
| ISBN | 1856497356 |
This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and "housewifization" and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labor and the role that women have to play as the cheapest producers...
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
| Author | Akasha Gloria Hull |
| ISBN | 0912670959 |
I have a complicated history with feminism that is probably not unique for a post-civil rights/black power movement black woman. But, all issues with the word feminism aside, I recognized myself too much in these essays to deny that whether I like it or not, I am constantly inhabiting multiple worlds....
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
| Author | Barbara Smith |
| ISBN | 0813527538 |
The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminists and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated lists of contributor...
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
| Author | Andrea Lee Smith |
| ISBN | 0896087433 |
A recognized Native American scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the country, Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an emerging leader in progressive political circles. In Conquest, Smith places Native American...
| Author | Eli Clare |
| ISBN | 0896086054 |
“Eli Clare works a vital alchemy. . . . Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a complex human intersection and transmutes cruelty into its opposite—a potent, lifegiving remedy.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
First published in 1999, Exile & Pride established...
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
| Author | Ching-In Chen |
| ISBN | 0896087948 |
"Was/is your abusive partner a high-profile activist? Does your abusive girlfriend’s best friend staff the domestic violence hotline? Have you successfully kicked an abuser out of your group? Did your anti-police brutality group fear retaliation if you went to the cops about another organizer’s...
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
| Author | Dean Spade |
| ISBN | 0896087964 |
Wait—what’s wrong with rights?
Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal...
This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 0415936829 |
Over 20 years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating have brought together an ambitious new collection of over 80 original contributions offering a bold new...
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
| Author | Dorothy Roberts |
| ISBN | 0679758690 |
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black...
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
| Author | Bushra Rehman |
| ISBN | 1580050670 |
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the ‘70s feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Now a new generation of brilliant, outspoken women of color is speaking to the concerns...
| Author | Cherríe L. Moraga |
| ISBN | 0896086267 |
Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga's...
Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
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When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions of polite discourse are not the norm for all of us, and just because we’ve got some new and hot language lately in equity-seeking movements like feminism...
| Author | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896085813 |
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 1932360565 |
As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia,...
| Author | Loretta J. Ross |
| ISBN | 0896087298 |
“If you have come to help me, please go away. But, if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together.”—Lila Watson, Aboriginal Activist
Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women...
| Author | Chela Sandoval |
| ISBN | 0816627371 |
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
| Author | M. Jacqui Alexander |
| ISBN | 0822336456 |
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories,...
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
| Author | Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
| ISBN | 0253206324 |
"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended... " --Choice
..". the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to win the struggles thrust upon us by the...
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
| Author | Julia Sudbury |
| ISBN | 0415950570 |
Global Lockdown is the first book to apply a transnational feminist framework to the study of criminalization and imprisonment. The distinguished contributors to this collection offer a variety of perspectives, from former prisoners to advocates to scholars from around the world. The book is a...
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
| Author | The CRIO Publications Collective |
| ISBN | 1904859968 |
“As new and more virulent articulations of imprisonment, policing, and surveillance have grown over the past decade, one thing remains clear: the prison industrial complex must be abolished. Critical Resistance is a leading voice in the movement for abolition and the pieces in this collection...
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
| Author | Victoria Law |
| ISBN | 1604860189 |
In 1974, women imprisoned at New York's maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison. While many have heard...
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 1580051030 |
While many recent books have thoughtfully examined the plight of the working poor in America, none of the authors of these books is able to claim a working-class background, and there are associated methodological and ethical concerns raised when most of the explicatory writing on how poverty affects...
