WOMEN'S

STUDIES


ALGONQUIN

All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913—1930 (Mar., $18.95) by Andrea Barnet reveals the women who sparked a cultural revolution when they rebelled against Victorian values.


CONARI

The Ladies' Room Reader Quiz: 1,000 Questions and Answers About Women and the Things They Love (Mar., $14.95) by Leslie Gilbert Elman lists incredible women and their accomplishments.


FALCON GUIDES

Equal Play: Stories of Women Who Dare (June, $12.95) by Peggy O'Neill identifies outdoorswomen who blazed their own trails formerly dominated by men.


FEMINIST PRESS

The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Bush Years and Beyond (June, $15.95), edited by Laura Flanders, argues that George W. Bush's presidency has undermined women's rights in both subtle and direct ways.


HOUGHTON/MARINER

Crazy Women Creek: Women Rewrite the American West (May, $14), edited by Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier and Nancy Curtis, is a collection of prose and poetry in which 152 women west of the Mississippi write about the ways women shape and sustain their communities. Advertising.


MARLOWE & CO.

The Queen of Myself: Women Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife (June, $15.95) by Donna Henes celebrates a new mythic model for the middle years of a woman's life—the Queen.


PICADOR

Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy (May, $15) by Tricia Rose gathers sexual testimonies of black women from a broad range of ages, levels of education and socioeconomic backgrounds.


SCHOCKEN

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey (July, $14.95) by Lillian Schlissel is a reissue of the classic about the women who trekked westward on the Overland Trail between 1840 and 1879.


SEVEN STORIES PRESS

Reprint: The Hite Report (Mar., $13.95) by Shere Hite.


TARCHER

How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (Apr., $14.95) by Margo Perin collects writings on the complex bonds that daughters share with their (often) less-than-perfect mothers.

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