Basic Books: 1466 books
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Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities
While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality--sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Some...
Yes Means Yes!
Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure.
In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the...
by Michelle Tea
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's...
We Hope You Like This Song
An Overly Honest Story about Friendship, Death, and Mix Tapes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
From fourth grade onward, shy, nervous Bree Housley and fearless, outgoing Shelly were an inseparable, albeit unlikely, pair. Their friendship survived everything from the awkward years of junior high to the transformative upheavals of early adulthood-until, at the young age of 25, Shelly lost her...
Rockabye
From Wild to Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Rockabye is the lively memoir of a spontaneous young city-girl who becomes unexpectedly pregnant. That city-girl is Rebecca Woolf, who at 23, after the "holy shit, I'm pregnant" realization, decides to keep the baby, marry the boyfriend (in Vegas no less), and figure out how to wed her rock...
Prude
Lessons I Learned When My Fiancé Filmed Porn
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
In a culture obsessed with sex, the era of Dad’s Playboy is long gone. Today, endless free porn is a click away and full-frontal photos appear on sites as accessible as Twitter, yet many couples struggle with the underlying issues of pornography.
Emily Southwood considered herself to be sexually...
by Delaine Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
For seven years, Delaine Moore devoted herself to being the perfect wife and stay-at-home mom. Then, one day, she discovers her husband's infidelities, and suddenly she finds herself in a new role: 37 years old, mother of three . . . and going through a divorce. In the midst of this emotional turmoil,...
Curvy Girls
Erotica for Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
From the editor of Dirty Girls comes a new anthology of steamy stories for women who don’t fit into a size zero-or two, or four-and the men and women who love them.
In this voluptuously erotic collection, editor and best-selling author Rachel Kramer Bussel showcases the sensual side of having...
Dirty Girls
Erotica for Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
What do women really want? To be sensually seduced or pressed up against the wall for a quickie? To be tantalized by a peep show or the chance to join the mile high club?
Acclaimed erotica writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel knows: They want it all. They want to be worshiped, ordered around,...
Book Lovers
Sexy Stories from Under the Covers
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Forget poorly written prose and clichéd love scenes: Book Lovers answers the call for sexy literature with substance. This collection of toe-curling tales written by and for word-worshippers offers well-crafted fiction and creative nonfiction that connects literature to libido. From a Vonnegut-inspired...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Ageless Erotica is a steamy anthology of erotic stories and memoir essays written for a mature audience by writers over the age of 50. Edited by senior sex expert and advocate Joan Price, this collection is full of erotica seniors can relate to—embracing the agelessness of sexuality while still...
Affection
An Erotic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Krissy Kneen loves sex . . . and she’s not afraid to talk about it. In this sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant, and sometimes terrifying memoir, she traces the arc of her sexual life - from her childhood in a sexless household to the myriad sexual encounters of her young and adult life to the...
How to Die in Paris
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
How to Die in Paris is an edgy, poetic, often darkly comic, memoir of a young middle-class black woman who escapes a tortured past in New York to pursue a new life in Europe-only to find herself broke, desperate, and contemplating suicide on the streets of Paris.
Penniless, scared, and hoping...
Otherhood
Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
More American women are childless than ever before-nearly half those of childbearing age don’t have children. While our society often assumes these women are childfree by choice,” that’s not always true. In reality, many of them expected to marry and have children, but it simply hasn’t happened....