New Books from  Feminist Writers and Publishers

Last updated September 25, 2003           See also Books Back in Print

Virginia Woolf's Women:  Just received a new book on Woolf, Virginia Woolf's Women by Vanessa Curtis, published 2003 by Sutton Publishing, Phoenix Mill, Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 2BU, and in the U.S. by the University of Wisconsin Press.  It has chapters on Vanessa Bell, Violet Dickinson, Ottoline Morrell and Katherine Mansfield (one chapter), Vita Sackville-West, Ethyl Smythe, and Virginia Woolf herself.  It opens with a chapter about Woolf's "Angels in the House," her grandmother Maria Pattle, mother Julia Jackson Stephen, and half-sister Stella Duckworth Hills  It's a useful book in that it gathers more information about most of these women than is usually provided in Woolf biographies.  The author, Vanessa Curtis, is a freelance writer who founded the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and co-edits the Virginia Woolf Bulletin.  This is her second book about Woolf.

 

 
Women Artists of the American West, edited by Susan Ressler, Professor of Art and Design, Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University, is recently out (spring 2003).  It covers "over 150 women artists who live or once lived west of the Mississippi River."

 

Minnie Bruce Pratt has a new book of poems, The Dirt She Ate out from the U of Pittsburgh Press in July 2003.  Her last book of poems, Walking Back up Depot Street (1999), is also still available from the same press (hooray for keeping books in print!)

 

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Available in the U.S. in September 2003 from Raincoast Books

AfterShock September 11, 2001: Global Feminist Perspectives, edited by Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winter, $18.95 pb, 528 pp
(Originally published by the Australian feminist publisher Spinifex)

 When the Twin Towers in New York were hit by planes, the Western world stood in shocked silence. Then came the commentary: the endless news reports and replays. Some women spoke out, some wrote for newspapers, some for e-mail lists and the Internet. But in the mass of voices it was hard to find women’s perspectives. This collection of writing by women activists worldwide—including Barbara Ehrenreich, Arundhati Roy, Robin Morgan,  Ani di Franco, Barbara Kingsolver, Naomi Klein, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, and former Canadian president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Sunera Thobani—brings together the voices of women to discuss war, terrorism, fundamentalism, racism, global capitalism and violence.  From the United States to Afghanistan, from Lebanon to Bangladesh, from Australia to Europe, they have deconstructed the story of September 11 and retold it from a feminist perspective, providing a powerful indictment of current global politics.

 Bronwyn Winter is an activist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of French Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Susan Hawthorne has been a political activist for 30 years. She lives and writes in Australia.

     

 Women Confronting Retirement,  edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Alice Radosh, is a new anthology of essays, forthcoming in April 2003 from Rutgers UP.  

 

 

 
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!  Feminist Visions for a Just World, a new anthology of essays, stories and poetry by women of color, forthcoming in 2002 from EdgeWork Books.  It is edited by Jacqui Alexander, Sharon Day, Lisa Albrecht, and Mab Segrest.  

 
This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation
Edited by AnaLouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldúa
Price: $22.45 (paperback; $90 hardback)
Routledge, 2002 
This is the successor to the landmark collection This Bridge Called My Back (1981, recently reissued).  This new book features eighty essays (almost 700 pages) on a huge spectrum of issues pertaining to women and or people of color.
Details from the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore site.  
Details from Routledge.

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