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History is filled with unacceptable noises: high pitch, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes fall into
The Site of Memory describes Toni Morrisons work of literary archaeology. She offers insights into how she arrives at a text through the act of imagination bound up with memory and shows how she explores two worlds the actual and the possible via the ni
The Cosmic Oval is an elliptical entrance into an exploration of feminist cosmologies, storytelling and the many ways of knowing and imagining the hot blue beginnings of time. By turn dreaming and waking, Ella Finers essay enters history and imagination
Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lordes luminous writing
Dorothea Laskys Memory is a cycle of poets essays stirred by two profound questions. What constitutes personhood and consciousness? What memories get lost, and why? Laskys inspired investigation of the forces that form our lives and deepest senses o
Legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her ground-breaking science fiction novels, but she began as a poet, and wrote across genres for her entire career. In this clarifying and sublime collection completed shortly before her death
Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Steering the Craft is Ursula K. Le Guins carrier bag of the essentials of a writers craft, a generous gift from one of the great thinkers about how and why to write. This handbook is an accessible
When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds