NWSA: Literature
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
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BROWSE BOOKS:
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // TRANSGENDER STUDIES
FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORY // DISABILITY STUDIES // ENVIRONMENT
ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE // POLITICS // ART AND MEDIA
LITERATURE // GLOBALIZATION // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES
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Making Love with the Land Essays Joshua Whitehead 2022 Fall
- A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
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Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring
- The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism
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Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall
- A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means
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Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall
- Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior
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Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall
- The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
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Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall
- Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter
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Skiing into the Bright Open My Solo Journey to the South Pole Liv Arnesen 2021 Spring
- The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there
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Letters from Tove Tove Jansson 2021 Fall
- A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
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Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall
- Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print
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Hope in the Struggle A Memoir Josie R. Johnson 2021 Spring
- How a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment
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The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2020 Fall
- Forty-four years after two men married in a legal ceremony in Minnesota, the Supreme Court has decided the question first raised by these gay pioneers
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Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify Essays Carolyn Holbrook 2020 Spring
- The compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community
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Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2020 Fall
- A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world
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What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring
- Examining the personal library and the making of self
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What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall
- Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
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This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall
- The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States
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Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring
- An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
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The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring
- A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
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Wild Mares My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life Dianna Hunter 2018 Spring
- A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s
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The Essential Ellen Willis Ellen Willis Nona Willis Aronowitz, Editor 2014 Spring
- From pioneering rock music critic Ellen Willis, iconoclastic essays on politics and culture
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Eating Fire My Life as a Lesbian Avenger Kelly Cogswell 2014 Spring
- An outsider American recounts two decades of radical lesbian life in this urgent, ferociously funny memoir
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No More Nice Girls Countercultural Essays Ellen Willis 2012 Fall
- Insightful, persuasive essays on feminism and identity politics
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Beginning to See the Light Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll Ellen Willis 2012 Fall
- Ellen Willis traces the development of rock-and-roll and the legacy of the ’60s and ’70s