A humorous cookbook for children with a forward by the author's 12-year-old daughter. Recipes include "Grammar School Meatballs," "Prodigiously Imposing Chicken Dish," "Chocolate Yummy Devilishly Good Best Ever Double Fudgy Gloryosky Plain Chocolate Cake," and "Creamed Tuna (or whatever) On Toast (or something else)."

This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family. Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. At the heart of Bui's story is a universal struggle. While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she discovers what it means to be a parent, the sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home. --Publisher.

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. Moving from The Thousand and One Nights and the Golden Era of Egyptian cinema to contemporary novels, autobiographical writing, prints and graphic novels that imagine queer Arab futures, Shomali uses what she calls queer Arab critique to locate queer desire amid heteronormative imperatives. Showing how systems of heteropatriarchy and Arab nationalisms foreclose queer Arab women's futures, she draws on the transliterated term "banat"--the Arabic word for girls--to refer to women, femmes, and nonbinary people who disrupt stereotypical and Orientalist representations of the "Arab woman." --Publisher.

The Damron Women's Traveller is an annual publication that lists lesbian friendly travel accommodations, tours, adventures, retreats, and a calendar of women's festivals and events across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. Provides the inside scoop on local lesbian hangouts and nightlife. Listings are for a diversity of women travelers, including women of color, younger women, older women, disabled women, vegetarians, pagans, kinky women and more. --Back cover (1999).

Schlesinger acquired guides for 1997, 1999, 2001-2003, 2006, 2012, which extend our previous holdings

The histories of the Dirty Wars in Mexico and Argentina (1960s-1980s) have largely erased how women experienced and remember the gendered violence during this traumatic time. Viviana Beatriz MacManus restores women to the revolutionary struggle at the heart of the era by rejecting both state projects and the leftist accounts focused on men. Using a compelling archival blend of oral histories, interviews, human rights reports, literature, and film, MacManus illuminates complex narratives of loss, violence, and trauma. --Publisher.

Part of a collection of twenty-six pamphlets on "juvenile delinquency" acquired by the Schlesinger Library that includes government-issued reports, social science research studies, and annual reports from juvenile detention schools and industrial schools. Titles in this collection were published between 1860 and 1969 and show the role of race and class, the resources available to families at the time, and the functions of the juvenile court system.

By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive. --Publisher.

Three-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and award-winning historian Erika Lee have written a middle grade nonfiction book that shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the United States and who continue to shape what it means to be American. Asian American begins centuries before America even exists as a nation. It is connected to the histories of Western conquest and colonialism. It's a story of migration; of people and families crossing the Pacific Ocean in search of escape, opportunity, and new beginnings.It is also the story of race and racism, bravery and hope. It is the story of heroes who fought for equality in the courts, on the streets, and in the schools, and who continue to fight in solidarity with others. --Publisher.

Alice Randall offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and given Randall a singular distinction in American music history. Alice Randall is the first Black woman to co-write a number-one country hit, Trisha Yearwood's "XXX's and OOO's." Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries. My Black Country is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. --Publisher.

A collection of Sea Islands recipes compiled in celebration of the Penn School of St. Helena Island, South Carolina. "Founded in 1862, Penn School, established by northern missionaries, was one of the first academic schools in the South to provide a formal education for previously enslaved West Africans. After the school closed in 1948, Penn became the first African American site in South Carolina whose primary purpose was to safeguard the heritage of a Gullah Geechee community. Later, in the 1960s, Penn Center took up the mantle of social justice, ushering in the Civil Rights Movement and serving as the only location in South Carolina during the Civil Rights Movement where interracial groups, such as Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Peace Corps could have safe sanctuary in an era of mandated segregation." --Penn Center website.

A birth control guide published as number two of a "Universal Matrimonial Series" issued by a Cincinnati, Ohio doctor. The guide discusses the importance of sexual intercourse outside of reproduction, and argues for the moral righteousness of contraception. The evils and disadvantages of many forms of birth control are discussed including condoms, chemical washes, withdrawal methods and electricity. "The only proper preventative" is the female syringe. The final chapter covers the disadvantages of large families, which make "parents perpetual slaves." --Book dealer.

A candid portrait of the 1990s new wave of queer culture, a flourishing of feminism-embraced gender bending, and butch/femme culture. The Mission District was the center of this queer cultural renaissance, and the feeling of community was palpable. Chloe Sherman was both a member of this community and an ardent visual chronicler. Her documentary photographic work on 35mm film stems from a commitment to capturing the vibrancy, tenderness, individuality, resilience, and joy within this subculture that was derided by mainstream society. Distilling the spirit of the time, her debut monograph is a candid portrait of a vibrant era that connects current and future generations to the pulse of San Francisco at a pivotal chapter in queer history. --Publisher.

Ruth Jackson, a resident of Plains, Georgia, prepared this cookbook with recipes from family and friends. At the time of the book's publication (1978), the small town of Plains was the subject of much public interest, as it was the home of then-president Jimmy Carter. The recipes are interspersed with photographs of Jackson's family and friends, as well as words of wisdom and a short history of Black Plains. Recipes include Sweet Potato Casserole, Calico Salad, and Lemon Pie Divine.

Voices: Indigenous Women on the Front Lines Speak is a series of ten zines, nine of which contain a full length interview with one of the women of 2Spirit Land Defenders, and 1 that is a compilation of excerpts and illustrations from each Land Defender. The Land Defenders are: Molly Wickham, Doris Rosso, Freda Huson, Destiny Michell, Queen Sacheen, Christie Brown, Christine Jack, Koot-Ges, and Helen Knott. Maps are included to orient the reader visually and spatially.

An old-fashioned almanac issued by the Mme. C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, with the company's advertisement occupying the centerfold. The monthly tables of moon phases and sunrises include dates of historical significance. January 19th is noted as Robert E. Lee's birthday, but August commemorates race riots in Harlem and New Jersey. The rest of the volume is devoted to "beauty hints" and "amazing facts" along with advertisements. Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing was an African-American cosmetics and hair care products company considered the most financially successful African-American-owned business of the early twentieth century.

An acquisition from the Center for Sex and Culture Library (San Francisco), this witty little book is an amusing list of why cucumbers are better than men.

"This little book is the answer to Everywoman's every complaint about Everyman." -- Back cover.

"The Work of Colored Women" discusses the ways African American women supported the war effort through the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) during World War I. African American women participated in war work through the YWCA by working in hostess houses, recreation centers, and industrial centers. Hostess houses were located at military training camps and offered a place for soldiers' friends and family to stay when visiting. Recreation centers provided a place for community engagement as well as professional development opportunities for African American women. Industrial centers taught women the skills necessary to work in factories and other industries, and to know the standards suitable for working conditions. A fold-out chart at the end of the book lists industries that employed African American women during the war and those where YWCA membership was represented.