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Alice Walker and Dangerous Desires

Alice Walker

In Her First Collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist, in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Here are essays about Walker's own work and that of other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid, courageous memoir of a scarring childhood injury. Throughout the volume, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminists and feminism, incorporating what she calls the womanist tradition of black women.
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker
ISBN: 0156028646

Dangerous Desires

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 writing, an introduction written especially for this book, and five new essays including "A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home," "My Dangerous Desires," and "Sexuality, Labor, and the New Trade Unionism."
In looking at themes such as the relationship between activism and desire or how sexuality can be intimately tied to one's class identity, Amber L. Hollibaugh fiercely and fearlessly analyzes her own political development as a response to her unique personal history. She explores the concept of labeling and the associated issues of categories such as transgender, bisexual, top or bottom, drag queen, b-girl, or drag king. The volume includes conversations with other writers, such as Deirdre English, Gayle Rubin, Jewelle Gomez, and Cherríe Moraga. From the groundbreaking article "What We're Rollin' Around in Bed With" to the radical "Sex Work Notes: Some Tensions of a Former Whore and a Practicing Feminist," Amber L. Hollibaugh charges ahead to describe her reality, never flinching from the truth. Dorothy Allison's moving foreword pays tribute to a life lived in struggle by a working-class lesbian who, like herself, refuses to suppress her dangerous desires. Having informed many of the debates that have become central to gay and lesbian activism, Amber L. Hollibaugh's work challenges her readers to speak, write, and record their desires-especially, perhaps, the most dangerous of them, in order for us all to survive.
My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber L. Hollibaugh
ISBN: 0822326191

Bushwomen

The Bushwomen, the women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet and sub-cabinet, are cast in the public mind as moderate, malleable, maverick, irrelevant or benign. Their carefully crafted images tap into stereotypes, while the reality of their records has remained out of sight, until now. This is the first book to investigate Bush's women, and to report on how they rose to power and what they've done.
Find out why Chevron named a tanker after National security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; how financial ties to big tobacco corporations got Secretary of the Interior Gale Ann Norton dubbed "The Woman from Marlboro Country", how Labor Secretary Elaine Chao bullied union longshoreworkers to benefit her trading-with-China family and friends, read excerpts of Lynne Cheney's lesbian novel; and discover how Karen Hughes got her first job thanks to the National Organization for Women. Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species by Laura Flanders
ISBN: 1859845878

Major Problems in American Women's History

Major Problems in American Women's History, appropriate for courses in U.S. women's history, presents a carefully selected group of readings that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History Series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays.
Major Problems in American Women's History
ISBN: 0618122192