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Resistance Behind Bars

The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Victoria Law

In 1974, women imprisoned at New York's maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought...

Heroines

Kate Zambreno

On the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister, arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to...

The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down

Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store, Win Big

Dana Frank

Woolworth's department store was the Walmart of the early-20th century. The women who worked the counters, cash registers, and storerooms were overworked, underpaid, and sexually harassed. This is...

Bedtime Stories for the Edge of the World

Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan

Into their re-imaginings of colonial North American myths, artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have inserted women who question puritanical values of good and evil, right and wrong, and the...

Sister Spit

Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road

Michelle Tea

A collection of writing and artwork from the irreverent, flagrantly queer, hilariously feminist, tough-talking, genre-busting ruffians who have toured with the legendary Sister Spit. Co-founded in...

Women and Economics

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This masterpiece of social science, first published in 1898, explores the evolution of women's economic reliance on men. Gilman discusses the limitations in intellectual and emotional development...

Louise Michel

Edith Thomas

Revolutionary on the barricades of the Paris Commune, tried before the War Council of France, deported to a penal colony, received by enthusiastic crowds upon her return, brilliant lecturer...

The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

A pioneer in the battle to establish birth control as a basic human right and a founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Sanger—a nurse who witnessed first-hand the devastating...

Some Problems of Social Freedom and Other Writings from "The Adult"

Lillian Harman

Lillian Harman was born in 1869, the daughter of freethinker, sex radical, and anarchist Moses Harman. Moses Harman was the publisher of a number of newspapers, most notably the anarchist and free...