Books We Wouldn't Have Without These Feminist Publishers

These are just a few of the books published by feminist presses no longer actively publishing.  Note that some of these books have been republished by other presses, but many are no longer in print.

Kitchen Table /Women of Color Press (founded by Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and others, has ceased publishing)

        The Third Wave: Feminist Perspectives on Racism, ed. M. Jacqui Alexander, et al. (1998)  (not listed in Books in Print)

        Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism by Angela Y. Davis. out of print (but still listed in Books in Print)

        This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, ed. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua (1st ed., 1981 Persephone Press, 2nd 1983, Kitchen Table). being reissued by Third Woman Press

        Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, ed. Barbara Smith (1983) recently reissued by Rutgers University Press!

        A Gathering of Spirit: North American Indian Women's Issues by Beth Brant (1983) (no longer in Books in Print)

Firebrand - award-winning lesbian publisher, has gone through some rocky times since being sold by its founder, but was bought in October 2002 by Karen Oosterhous, who plans to keep the back list in print and issue new titles. Below are some Firebrand titles that we hope to now see back in print.

        S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt (1995); also editions of her poetry collections Crime Against Nature  (1990) and We Say We Love Each Other (rpt. 1992; orig. publisher Spinsters/Aunt Lute 1985).

        Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature by Dorothy Allison (1994); also her Trash (1988) 

        Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (1993).

        A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism, ed. Ellen S. Sidor (1992).

The Gilda Stories: A Novel by Jewelle Gomez (1991).

        My Mama's Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture by Mab Segrest (1985).

        Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker, 1961-1978 (1990).

        The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood (1989)

        A Burst of Light, poems by Audre Lorde (1988)

        A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle (1987).

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