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The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher
Translated and edited by Douglas Scott Brookes
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For Glory and Bolívar
By Pamela S. Murray
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Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna
By Alison Rose
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Princess, Priestess, Poet
By Betty De Shong Meador
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Private Women, Public Lives
By Bárbara O. Reyes
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Sex Work and the City
By Yasmina Katsulis
Sista, Speak!
By Sonja L. Lanehart
"Shakin' Up" Race and Gender
By Marta E. Sánchez
Sugar's Life in the Hood
By Sugar Turner and Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
After Revolution
By Florence E. Babb
Guatemaltecas
By Susan A. Berger
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
By Norma Iglesias Prieto
The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross
By Laura de Mello e Souza
Dissident Women
Edited by Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen
Every Woman Is a World
By Gayle Walker and Kiki Suárez
From Cuenca to Queens
By Ann Miles
Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
By Blenda B. Femenías
Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
By Marcia Stephenson
Homegirls in the Public Sphere
By Marie "Keta" Miranda
The Lieutenant Nun
By Sherry Velasco
Muslim Women Activists in North America
Edited by Katherine Bullock
Planning the Family in Egypt
By Kamran Asdar Ali
Remembering Childhood in the Middle East
Collected and edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Shamans of the Foye Tree
By Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Shaping the Discourse on Space
By Teresita Martínez-Vergne
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
By Elizabeth Salas
The Summer of Her Baldness
By Catherine Lord
Women and Social Movements in Latin America
By Lynn Stephen
Women Embracing Islam
Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
The Women of Karbala
Edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
By Kimberly Gauderman
Women Who Live Evil Lives
By Martha Few
Amá, Your Story Is Mine
By Ercenia "Alice" Cedeño
Asmahan's Secrets
By Sherifa Zuhur
The Bullet Meant for Me
By Jan Reid
The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer
By Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Danger Pay
By Carol Spencer Mitchell
Doctor Mary in Arabia
By Mary Bruins Allison
Duchess of Palms
By Nadine Eckhardt
e-mail trouble
By S. Paige Baty
The Empress Theodora
By James Allan Evans
Honorable Exiles
By Lillian Lorca de Tagle
No Gifts from Chance
By Shari Benstock
Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies
By Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Sugar's Life in the Hood
By Sugar Turner and Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
This America of Ours
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
Together, Alone
By Susan Wittig Albert
Woman with a Movie Camera
By Marina Goldovskaya
Year of the Elephant
By Leila Abouzeid
After Revolution
By Florence E. Babb
"Here, Our Culture Is Hard"
By Laura McClusky
Witchcraft and Welfare
By Raquel Romberg
Women Legislators in Central America
By Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Cynthia Chavez Metoyer
Women Who Live Evil Lives
By Martha Few
The Empress Theodora
By James Allan Evans
Exchange and the Maiden
By Kirk Ormand
I Claudia II
Edited by Diana E. E. Kleiner and Susan B. Matheson
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
By Betty De Shong Meador
Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons
By Sarolta A. Takács
Cinemachismo
By Sergio de la Mora
Dames in the Driver's Seat
By Jans B. Wager
Danger Pay
By Carol Spencer Mitchell
Diva
By Angela Dalle Vacche
Electronic Eros
By Claudia Springer
Feminism, Film, Fascism
By Susan E. Linville
Filming Difference
Edited by Daniel Bernardi
Framing Female Lawyers
By Cynthia Lucia
From Bananas to Buttocks
Edited by Myra Mendible
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
By David William Foster
History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny
By Susan E. Linville
The Lieutenant Nun
By Sherry Velasco
Lourdes Portillo
Edited by Rosa Linda Fregoso
Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
By David William Foster
Reel Knockouts
Edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King
Thelma & Louise Live!
Edited by Bernie Cook
The Unruly Woman
By Kathleen Rowe
What Women Watched
By Marsha F. Cassidy
Women Filmmakers in Mexico
By Elissa J. Rashkin
Women in Television News Revisited
By Judith Marlane
Woman with a Movie Camera
By Marina Goldovskaya
After Revolution
By Florence E. Babb
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
By Norma Iglesias Prieto
Butterflies Will Burn
By Federico Garza Carvajal
Conversations with Isabel Allende, Revised Edition
Edited by John Rodden
The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross
By Laura de Mello e Souza
Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault
By Tanja Christiansen
Dissident Women
Edited by Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen
Family Ties
By Clarice Lispector
First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix
By Regina Rheda
From Cuenca to Queens
By Ann Miles
Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
By Blenda B. Femenías
Honorable Exiles
By Lillian Lorca de Tagle
Mary, Mother and Warrior
By Linda B. Hall
Performing Kinship
By Krista E. Van Vleet
Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
By David William Foster
Senhora
By José de Alencar
Shamans of the Foye Tree
By Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
By Elizabeth Salas
Staying Sober in Mexico City
By Stanley Brandes
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
By Gwendolyn Díaz
Women Filmmakers in Mexico
By Elissa J. Rashkin
Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics
By Victoria E. Rodríguez
Women in Mexico
By Julia Tuñón Pablos
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
By Kimberly Gauderman
Women Who Live Evil Lives
By Martha Few
Amá, Your Story Is Mine
By Ercenia "Alice" Cedeño
Boxing Shadows
By W. K. Stratton, with Anissa "The Assassin" Zamarron
Brown on Brown
By Frederick Luis Aldama
Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice
By Juanita Díaz-Cotto
Chicano Rap
By Pancho McFarland
The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras
By Tey Diana Rebolledo
Fertile Matters
By Elena R. Gutiérrez
From Bananas to Buttocks
Edited by Myra Mendible
Golondrina, why did you leave me?
By Bárbara Renaud González
Homegirls in the Public Sphere
By Marie "Keta" Miranda
Las Tejanas
By Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten
Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles
By Pamela I. Erickson
Lourdes Portillo
Edited by Rosa Linda Fregoso
Políticas
By Sonia R. García, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Irasema Coronado, Sharon A. Navarro, and Patricia A. Jaramillo
A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology
Edited by María Pilar Aquino, Daisy L. Machado, and Jeanette
Rodríguez
"Shakin' Up" Race and Gender
By Marta E. Sánchez
Teatro Chicana
By Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nuñez
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
By Anna Marie Sandoval
Walls of Empowerment
By Guisela Latorre
With Her Machete in Her Hand
By Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
Alien Constructions
By Patricia Melzer
Brown on Brown
By Frederick Luis Aldama
The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras
By Tey Diana Rebolledo
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
By Gabriella de Beer
Conversations with Isabel Allende, Revised Edition
Edited by John Rodden
The Director and Other Stories from Morocco
By Leila Abouzeid
The Disobedient Writer
By Nancy A. Walker
Family Ties
By Clarice Lispector
Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory
By Emma Pérez
Golondrina, why did you leave me?
By Bárbara Renaud González
How to Suppress Women's Writing
By Joanna Russ
Iphigenia
By Teresa de la Parra
The Lieutenant Nun
By Sherry Velasco
No Gifts from Chance
By Shari Benstock
Orpheus
By Nazli Eray
Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
By Cynthia Steele
A Rosario Castellanos Reader
By Rosario Castellanos
Sab and Autobiography
By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga
Senhora
By José de Alencar
Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector
By Earl E. Fitz
"Shakin' Up" Race and Gender
By Marta E. Sánchez
The Shattered Mirror
By María Elena de Valdés
Siraaj
By Radwa Ashour
Surrealist Women
Edited by Penelope Rosemont
Teatro Chicana
By Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nuñez
This America of Ours
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
The Three Marias
By Rachel de Queiroz
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
By Anna Marie Sandoval
Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter
Edited by Ruth Moore Alvarez and Thomas F. Walsh
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman
By Mohja Kahf
What Wildness Is This
Edited by Susan Wittig Albert and Susan Hanson
The Wind
By Dorothy Scarborough
With Her Machete in Her Hand
By Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
By Gwendolyn Díaz
Women of the Left Bank
By Shari Benstock
Women on a Journey
By Haifa Zangana
Women Writing Plays
Edited by Alexis Greene
The Writing of Elena Poniatowska
By Beth E. Jörgensen
Year of the Elephant
By Leila Abouzeid
Dissident Women
Edited by Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen
From Moon Goddesses to Virgins
By Pete Sigal
"Here, Our Culture Is Hard"
By Laura McClusky
Silent Looms
By Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town
By Christine Eber
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
By Norma Iglesias Prieto
Butterflies Will Burn
By Federico Garza Carvajal
Cinemachismo
By Sergio de la Mora
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
By Gabriella de Beer
Dissident Women
Edited by Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen
Every Woman Is a World
By Gayle Walker and Kiki Suárez
Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
By Cynthia Steele
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
By Elizabeth Salas
Staying Sober in Mexico City
By Stanley Brandes
Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios
By Michael James Higgins and Tanya L. Coen
Violence and Activism at the Border
By Kathleen Staudt
Women Filmmakers in Mexico
By Elissa J. Rashkin
Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics
By Victoria E. Rodríguez
Women in Mexico
By Julia Tuñón Pablos
Asmahan's Secrets
By Sherifa Zuhur
Believing Women in Islam
By Asma Barlas
Danger Pay
By Carol Spencer Mitchell
Daughter of Damascus
By Siham Tergeman
The Director and Other Stories from Morocco
By Leila Abouzeid
Doctor Mary in Arabia
By Mary Bruins Allison
The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual
By Shemeem Burney Abbas
The Kin Who Count
By Margaret L. Meriwether
Orpheus
By Nazli Eray
Planning the Family in Egypt
By Kamran Asdar Ali
Return to Childhood
By Leila Abouzeid
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman
By Mohja Kahf
The Women of Karbala
Edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie
Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt
By Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
Women on a Journey
By Haifa Zangana
Year of the Elephant
By Leila Abouzeid
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
By Elizabeth Salas
Inventing the Savage
By Luana Ross
Men as Women, Women as Men
By Sabine Lang
Duchess of Palms
By Nadine Eckhardt
Fertile Matters
By Elena R. Gutiérrez
Guatemaltecas
By Susan A. Berger
Life After Welfare
By Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder; with Karen Douglas and Daniel Schroeder
Planning the Family in Egypt
By Kamran Asdar Ali
Políticas
By Sonia R. García, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Irasema Coronado, Sharon A. Navarro, and Patricia A. Jaramillo
A White House Diary
By Lady Bird Johnson
Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics
By Victoria E. Rodríguez
Women Legislators in Central America
By Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Cynthia Chavez Metoyer
Homegirls in the Public Sphere
By Marie "Keta" Miranda
Staying Sober in Mexico City
By Stanley Brandes
Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios
By Michael James Higgins and Tanya L. Coen
Whose School Is It?
By Rhoda H. Halperin
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
By Kimberly Gauderman