Loving in the War Years
10 best books like Loving in the War Years (Cherríe L. Moraga): Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives, Our Dead Behind Us: Poems, Consensual Genocide, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color, Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
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...
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...
| Author | Carolyn Steedman |
| ISBN | 0813512581 |
There are lives, real lives, and there are the theories that explain them. Partly autobiographical, taking a mother and her daughter; two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in the 1950s) and trying to find a place for their stories in history and politics, in psychoanalysis...
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0393312380 |
This is my introduction to Audre Lorde's writing, and, though this collection was a tad overly political in nature for me, I still found my way to the juicy parts of her poetry.
On writing:
I cannot recall the words of my first poem
but I remember a promise
I made my pen
never...
| Author | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
| ISBN | 1894770293 |
This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and...
| Author | Incite! Women of Color Against Violence |
What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement--women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them--means...
| 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,...
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 1879960109 |
A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 0452274249 |
The "I" in these critical essays by novelist, poet, scholar, and activist/curandera Ana Castillo is that of the Mexic-Amerindian woman living in the United States. The essays are addressed to everyone interested in the roots of the colonized woman's reality. Castillo introduces the term Xicanisma...
| 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...
| Author | Alma M. García |
| ISBN | 0415918014 |
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| Author | June Jordan |
| ISBN | 0385490321 |
With the same pithy but eloquent observations characteristic of Jordan's classic poetry collections, Things that I Do in the Dark and Living Room, and her notable essay collections, Civil Wars and Technical Difficulties, Kissing God Goodbye will strike a universal chord as it witnesses the pain,...
| Author | Amber L. Hollibaugh |
| ISBN | 0822326191 |
Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires presents over twenty years of Hollibaugh’s...
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory
| Author | Michael Warner |
| ISBN | 0816623341 |
i'm not really sure i got a whole lot from this collection of essays in that it didn't broaden my horizons or challenge the way i think about things. i imagine it was pretty groundbreaking in 1993, but read today, a lot of the evisceration of popular theory (particularly in the fuss and sedgwick essays)...
| Author | Rigoberto González |
| ISBN | 0299219003 |
Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable.
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican...
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About
Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries,...
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
| Author | José Esteban Muñoz |
| ISBN | 0816630151 |
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming...
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
| Author | Ann Cvetkovich |
| ISBN | 0822330881 |
In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing---and archiving---accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. Cvetkovich contends that the field...
