My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home
9 best books like My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Amber L. Hollibaugh): Bastard Out of Carolina, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, Loving in the War Years, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 0452287057 |
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright,...
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...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0415389550 |
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
| Author | Paula J. Giddings |
| ISBN | 0688146503 |
When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how black women have transcended...
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost is a decidedly intimate look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; where the deluge...
| 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...
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings across the country, led by her devotion to the antislavery movement and her ardent pursuit of women's rights. Born into slavery in 1797, Truth fled from bondage some...
| 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...
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
| Author | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
| ISBN | 1551527383 |
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black,...
