“I do not know of a single woman in Yiddish literature who wrote better than she did.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer

“A daring feat. . . . Recommended for all libraries.”—Library Journal, starred review

“The reappearance of this novel will be welcomed by students of...

"The Love Children is valuable in its exploration and depiction of the many ways in which gender can still be a limitation, even within a supposedly more enlightened society."—Bust Magazine

Marilyn French's 1977 novel The Women's Room epitomi...

“I read the book with wonder and emotion. The love between Michaela and Rivi is depicted precisely and delicately. . . . It’s beautiful.”—Amos Oz

“More than anything else, the book is a temple of love to the imaginary, and to literature as an option for deep and vigorous living....

"[Marilyn French] draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible."-Guardian

"As a reference work it's invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extrem...

Praise for the previous volumes:

"French gives us grand theory at its best. . . . Highly recommended."-Library Journal

"Beautifully sourced and referenced. . . . Filled with fascinating detail and powerful arguments . . . massive and valuable."-Publishers Weekly

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"The issues [French] raises cannot be ignored. . . . No history you will read, post-French, will ever look the same again."-The Times (London)

From the author of The Women's Room, the best-selling novel that defined the issues that ignited the women's movement, comes a vibrant...

Analyzing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture?

Marilyn French's

A mystery set in the underworld of burlesque theater, The G-String Murders was penned in 1941 by the legendary queen of the stripteasers-the witty and wisecracking Gypsy Rose Lee. Narrating a twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Lee provides a fascinating look behind the scenes o...

No Sweetness Here, Ama Ata Aidoo's early volume of short fiction, is now available in the U.S. Set in West Africa, these stories chart a geography of consciousness during a period of transition from a colonial society through independence into a postcolonial world still in progress to...

In August 2003, the world gained access to a remarkable new voice: a blog written by a 25-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad, whose identity remained concealed for her own protection. Calling herself Riverbend, she offered searing eyewitness accounts of the everyday realities on the ground, p...

Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Men in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women’s sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S....

“Deftly sketched, simple and poetic, Dreaming of Baghdad drags politics down from the realm of the abstract into the mud, fear, and loneliness of personal experience and psychological ruin that is life under dictatorship. This is a landscape of clandestine struggle and crushing political defeat...

An Egyptian-Jewish Under the Tuscan Sun, Dream Homes chronicles Joyce Zonana's quest to find a sense of home among people, foods, and places as far from her native Cairo as Oklahoma and Katrina-stricken New Orleans.

After the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, newlyweds Felix and Nelli...

"Stunning, revealing, provoking. . . . A powerful book, not only about women who murder, but also about how women have been perceived."—Vogue

"[Jones] is a sardonic, savagely witty storyteller."—Walter Clemons, Newsweek

"This provocative book . . . reminds us...

For every woman who pays taxes and uses public services, and every man who cares about an effective and fair tax system, Taxes Are a Woman's Issue reveals the U.S. as a welfare nation, whether you are rich, poor, a corporation or an individual, and critiques a tax structure that penalizes ...

"Remarkable for its courage, its color and its natural control."-The New Yorker

"Unforgettable...written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears."-The Herald Tribune

This beloved coming-of-age story set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II f...

Compelling and fiercely honest, Base Ten exposes the daily battles of women scientists fighting to preserve a family life and succeed in a discipline that functions on the archaic belief that every scientist has a “wife” at home.

Reared to believe that she could do anything, as...

"I just loved it because of its immense human depth and high quality of writing."-David William Foster, author, critic, and professor

"Deeply endearing. . . . The author offers no apologies or heroes, only humble beings . . . whose portraits are remarkably true-to-life. All kinds of readers...

Walking the Precipice gives a succinct, readable account through a woman’s eyes of the rise of the Taliban in war-torn Afghanistan. This is a personal report about a country at the heart of the “War on Terror.”

In 1990, activist and grandmother Barbara Bick, age sixty-five,...