Women's Books Reviewed: "War Talk", "The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who Started It", "Making Changes", "Does your Mama Know?"
War TalkBy Arundhati Roy
The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Arundhati Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things.
Roy’s new essay collection, War Talk, highlights the global rise of militarism and religious and racial violence. Against the backdrop of nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, the horrific massacre of Muslims in Gujarat, and U.S. demands for an ever-expanding war on terror, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity.
and the Women who Started It
The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
What was the role of the organizations--especially those involving women--in this heroic boycott that won an important political concession from the KKK-like White Citizens Council?
"This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, written by an important, behind-the-scenes organizer, evokes the emotional intensity of the civil rights struggle. It ought to be required reading for all Americans who value their freedom and the contribution of Black women to our history." Coretta Scott King
Making Changes
by Patricia Hilliard
Tired of low pay and boring work, the women of the American Empire Insurance Company decide to take control of their lives. It isn't long until the management finds out their intentions and the confrontation begins. However, the women workers are ready to make changes.
If you've ever wanted to try out union organizing to see if you've got what it takes, read this book!
Patricia Hilliard has been a writer and activist for over 30 years. This novel is based on her four years of union organizing experience while working in an insurance company.
Coming Out Stories
By Lisa C. Moore (Ed)
From the cover: By turns funny, passionate, angry and joyous, does your mama know? reflects the complexity of emotions that accompany a black lesbian's coming out. These 49 short stories, poems, interviews and essays - fiction and nonfiction - make up a powerful collection of original and new writing by 41 women. does your mama know? is ready to take its place in the halls of literary African-American lesbian voices.
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