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FEBRUARY NEW ARRIVALS AND TWB STAFF PICKS!

TWB Staff Picks: the first 5 books are 25% off for the month of February

Vagina Warriors, essay by Eve Ensler, photographs by Joyce Tenneson. Bulfinch Press. $28.95
Vagina Warriors is a unique collaboration between playwright/performer-activist/V-day founder Eve Ensler, creator of the international hit The Vagina Monologues, and world-renowned photographer Joyce Tenneson, whose book Wise Women changed the way people look at women and aging.

In a Queer Time & Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by Judith Halberstam. New York University Press. $25.95
This provocative collection of essays on queer time and space explores the significance of the transgender body. Taking account of the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century, In a Queer Time & Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music.

Dark Designs & Visual Culture by Michael Wallace. Duke University Press. $32.50
A remarkable compilation of images, self-reflexive essays and other critical. works. It demonstrates Michele Wallace’s mastery of cultural criticism and indicates her interaction with American and African American visual culture during the past thirty years.

With or Without You by Lauren Sanders. Akashic Books. $20.25
Lillian Ginger Speck, high school graduate, sits in her jail cell contemplating the steps and missteps that led her to murder soap opera star Brooke Harrison. In this edgy and compelling “whydunit” the accounts of predator and victim intertwine. The result is a wry exploration of the contemporary American melting pot of status, beauty, celebrity, violence, and obsession.

Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester. Harper Collins Publishers. $22.99
Children will enjoy this book both for its important message as well as its beautiful images. Lester says, “ I write because our lives are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story, the differences are merely in the details.”

February 2005 New Arrivals

The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely by Elizabeth Grosz. Duke University Press. $30.95
Elizabeth Grosz’s The Nick of Time is a major work. It achieves a richly nuances and sweeping reconsideration of temporality in the context of contemporary feminist theory, critical theory, and theories of evolution. The considerations of Darwin, Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze, and Irigaray are especially impressive.

Anarchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance edited by Joanne Richardson. Autonomedia. $21.99
Anarchitexts brings tgether a global mix of voices from the new “underground”: engaged artists intervening in local struggles on the streets, media producers promoting technologies based on sharing and cooperation rather than privitization and competition, and extraordinary people creating an alternative society through their everyday practices.

Racism, Eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada by Camille A. Nelson and Charmaine A. Nelson. Captus Press Inc. $49.50
This is the first publication that examines racism within the broad Canadain context. This anthology brings together many of the visionaries seeking to illuminate the topics of race and racism in Canada.

Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy. Atria Books. $20.00
In this searing work, renowned actress and Afeni’s trusted friend Jasmine Guy reveals the evolution of a woman through a series if intimate conversations on themes such as love, death, race, drugs, politics, music, and of course her son. Afenis’s memoir is a powerful testament to the human spirit and the perseverance of the African American people.

Troubling Women’s Studies: Pasts, Presents and Possibilites edited by Ann Braithwaite, Susan Heald, Susanne Luhmann, and Sharon Rosenberg. Sumach Press. $28.95
With these essays, four Canadian feminist scholars join an international conversation on the present state- and future stakes- of Women’s Studies. No one interested in this field can afford to miss these deeply considered and provocative reflections.

On Female Body Experience: “Throwing Like a Girl” and Other Essays by Iris Marion Young. Oxford University Press. $34.95
The essays collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women’s lived body experience in modern Western societies. The lead essay rethinks the purpose of the category of gender for feminist theory, after important debates have questioned its usefulness.

Women & Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-expression edited by Naomi Sakr. I.B. Tauris. $41.95
In eleven chapters, Women & Media in the Middle East spans both the region, from Iran to Morocco, and the media, from film and broadcasting to the press and internet. It looks back at women’s journalism in pre-1952 Egypt and forward to future trends in women’s internet use.

Caliban & the Witch: Women, the Body & Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici. Autonomedia. $22.50
Caliban & the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction.

Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race & Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad by Aisha Khan. Duke University Press. $30.95
Khan combines ethnographic research she conducted in Trinidad over the course of a decade with extensive archival research to explore how Hindu and Muslim Indo-Trinidadians interpret authority, generational tensions, and the transformations of Indian culture in the Caribbean through metaphors of mixing.

The Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat. The American University in Cairo Press. $17.50
This book is a landmark of women’s writing in Arabic; published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl’s coming of sexual and political age. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and class as they seek to free themselves of family control and social expectations

The Tiller of Waters by Hoda Barakat. The American University in Cairo Press. $12.00
This spellbinding novel narrates the many-layered recollections of a hallucinating man in devastated Beirut. A powerful story of humanity, of what should be, or should have been, protected. Barakat weaves and intertwines, page after page, reality with history, past and present.

Blue Aubergine by Miral al-Tahawy. The American University in Cairo Press. $13.50
Blue Aubergine tells the story of a young Egyptian woman, born in 1967, growing up in the wake of Egypt’s defeat of that year, and maturing into womanhood against the social and political upheavals Egypt experienced during the final decades of the twentieth century.

Scoot Over, Skinny: the Fat Nonfiction Anthology edited by Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang. A Harvest Original. $20.00
In this surprising collection of essays some of our most lively, provocative writers explore the many folds of fat that make up reality.

Mommy Myth, by Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels. Free Press, $22.00
New in paperback!

Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan. Scholastic Press, $22.99
Munoz Ryan’s new novel is filled with the warmth, wisdom, of love of her Mexican and Oklahoma heritages. It tells the story of Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw, who has a lot to contend with in her young life. For ages 10 and up.

Tales from the Isle of Spice, by Ricardo Keens-Douglas. Annick Press, $8.95
Three beloved stories form this new collection by award-winning author.

Girls will be boys will be girls: A coloring book, by Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer. Soft Skull Press, $13.95
A book for those who want to colour outside the gender lines, full of “boys who bake & hug, and girls who build drum sets and fix stuff.”

Dancing With the Cranes, by Jeannette Armstrong and illustrated by Ron Hill. Theytas Books, $14.95
A beautifully illustrated story about the cycle of birth, life and death. Chi’ comes to terms with her Temma’s death and the idea of a new baby in her family as she waits for the cranes to arrive on their migration.