The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex.

Andrea Dworkin's bold and clearly written analysis of pornography and male power.

Explores, among other things, the documentation that Jesus believed in equal rights for men and women; the ignorance, arrogance, and hypocrisy on the part of the church hierarchy; and the slaughter of women who were slaves, wives of drunkards, or were believed to be witches.

A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.

When Odysseus goes off to fight the Trojan War, his wife Penelope manages to keep over a hundred suitors at bay. When Odysseus comes home, he kills her suitors and - curiously - twelve of her maids. What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? This book sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.

'A brilliant memoir...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire; its crises are the crises of a heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it...Maxine Hong Kingston writes with bitter and relentless love. Her voice, now, is as clear as the voice of Ts'ai

Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.

Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often starting territory. This title features her famous story, The Awakening , and other selected stories.

Essays which expose the connections between unlikely people and events to reveal the hidden passion which distorts human relations - woman-hating. Drawing on films, novels (including those of Milan Kundera), trial reports and the royal family, the author examines the issue of misogyny.

In this book Mary Wollstonecraft pursues in fiction the themes set forth by her in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). It exposes the legal and social injustices faced by all women, dramatizing the extent to which a married woman under English law was her husband's property.

This collection of 20th century feminist writings attempts to re-think the ideas and traditions of religion. Contributions are from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds and represent Jewish, Christian, Goddess, Native American, Yoruba, Voodoo and other perspectives.

This title aims to offer a journey into the interior of language. The author reveals the patriarchal construction of language and religious imagery, offering alternatives.

Susan Griffin's extraordinary history of man's dominance over woman and nature.

* Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

Examining America's post-9/11 culture, the author looks at the psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, she unearths a societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions.

A comprehensive anthology, revised and expanded, this volume includes classic and representative essays from the mid-'70s to the mid-'90s. The sections are arranged thematically to reflect the core issues of feminist literary theory and critical practice.

The controversial bestseller on sexual politics by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has been described as 'the most dangerous columnist in America'

Tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. This title paints a portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life.