Books
Fall/Winter 2009-2010
Women Who Kill
Ann Jones
This legendary bestseller exposes the truths and consequences of women on the edges of society—women driven to kill. From Lizzie Borden to Jean Harris to Aileen Wuornos, this riveting investigation will change the ways you think about crime and punishment. A new introduction by the author illuminates the conditions for women who kill—and are killed—now.
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From Wonso Pond
A Novel of Korea
Kang Kyong-ae
Kang's proletarian masterpiece charts the voyages of a young woman, a woodcutter, and a law student from a Korean village to life as workers and underground activists in the port city of Inch'on.
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Still Brave
The Evolution of Black Women's Studies
Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Frances Smith Foster & Stanlie M. James
Great thinkers and writers of our time wrestle with current ideas about race, feminism, and gender.
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The Love Children
Marilyn French
It is the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Grateful Dead is playing on the radio and teenagers are wearing long hair and blue jeans. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter and a proto-feminist Harvard professor, is struggling to make sense of her world amid racial tensions, Vietnam War protests, and anti-government rage.
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Dreaming of Baghdad
Haifa Zangana
Once part of a resistance group fighting Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath regime, Haifa Zangana writes from the distance of time and place, and describes her embattled country and the process of remembering—and forgetting—what she once loved and feared.
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The War Before
The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind
Safiya Bukhari. Edited by Laura Whitehorn.
Bukhari's journey becoming a Black revolutionary, understanding misogyny in the Panthers, converting to Islam, and founding Jericho, the advocacy group for political prisoners in the US.
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HAMMER!
Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Barbara Hammer
Wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 80s, the fight for visibility during the Culture Wars of the 90s—Hammer's memoir charts this pioneer artist's life and work. With film still and photographs.
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The Madame Curie Complex
The Hidden History of Women in Science
Julie Des Jardins
Marie Curie, Lillian Gilbreth, Rosalyn Yalow, Jane Goodall, Barbara McClintock, Rachel Carson—these awesome life stories reveal the complex negotiation of gender in science.
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Mother
Volume 37, Number 3&4, Fall/Winter 2009
Edited by Nicole Cooley & Pamela Stone
Celebrity baby-bump sightings, televised debates between stay-at-home moms and working moms, LGBT moms, and men as moms—WSQ explores the cultural contradictions of the motherhood craze.
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