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Great Books for the Classroom
Gender Studies

The History of Mary Prince

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
Revised Edition
edited by Moira Ferguson
with a new and expanded introduction and nine new appendices

A new edition of the extraordinary autobiography of a black woman who escaped slavery in the West Indies.

What Professors Are Saying
"The History of Mary Prince is a seminal text of Caribbean Literature and history, and I often begin classes with it."
—Rosamond King, Long Island University


La Partera

La Partera
Story of a Midwife, New Edition
by Fran Leeper Buss
with a new preace

The story of one woman's life in rural New Mexico and of her emergence as a community leader.


Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder

Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder
The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
edited by Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Foreword by Ruth Underhill

A classic ethnography of continuing importance.


My Body Politic

My Body Politic
A Memoir
by Simi Linton

An irreverent memoir of one woman's personal and political journey from 1960s counterculture to disability activism.




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