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Category: Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
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Susie Bright, in addition to being a best-selling author, activist, and podcast host, is editor at large for Audible. Susie's blog, The Bright List, keeps readers and listeners apprised of new audiobooks. Today's post is a cross-post from the Bright List of a roundup of new titles by Hanne Blank, author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of…
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Read a selection from Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. It is one of the earliest works by an African American woman writer.
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Bad sociology is being used in several important court cases to attack same-sex marriage.
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Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as of ethnic and immigrant history. She is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Surpassing the Love of Men, I Begin My Life All Over, and her memoir Naked in the Promised Land. Last…
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In honor of Women's History Month, Beacon is celebrating classics of women's history, literature, and feminist thought. Celebrate with us at Beacon.org. Mary Daly (1928-2010) was a world-renowned radical feminist philosopher. When her groundbreaking work, Gyn/Ecology, was first released by Beacon in 1978, one reviewer called it “the most important book to come out of…
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Women’s History Month Classics: In the thirty-five years since its publication, Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller, MD, has become famous for its groundbreaking demonstration of how sexual stereotypes restrict men’s and women’s psychological development. Wendy Strothman, former Beacon director, called it “one of our books that overturn an entire field.” Toward…
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Enter to win a free copy of Shout, Sister, Shout!, the biography of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
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If books received Valentine’s Day cards, some of ours would have armfuls of them.
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Browse our African American titles: General Interest | African American History | Fiction and Poetry | Black Women Writers All month long, Beacon Press is offering 20% off and free shipping on all African American Studies titles purchased at Beacon.org. Use promo code FEB2013 at checkout. If you purchase two or more books, you'll also receive an attractive King Legacy Series tote…
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This post originally appeared at Huffington Post. Today would have been the 100th birthday of Rosa Parks. To honor the day, we share these Ten Things You Didn't Know About Rosa Parks, compiled by Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. 1. Parks had been thrown off the bus a decade earlier by…
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