Fall 2013 - She Writes Press https://shewritespress.com/product-category/backlist/fall-2013/ An imprint of The Stable Book Group Wed, 05 Jun 2019 20:51:50 +0000 en hourly 1 https://shewritespress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cropped-SheWritesPress_Seal_Red-32x32.png Fall 2013 - She Writes Press https://shewritespress.com/product-category/backlist/fall-2013/ 32 32 Times They Were A-Changing https://shewritespress.com/product/times-they-were-a-changing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=times-they-were-a-changing Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:34:23 +0000 http://shewritespress.com/?post_type=product&p=7890 These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that was the ’60s and ’70s. These women rode the sexual revolution with newfound freedom, struggled for identity in divorce courts and boardrooms, and took political action in street marches. They pushed through boundaries, trampled [...]

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]]> “This marvelous anthology shows the vital role outrider women played in changing our world—often overlooked, they were the heart of the ’60s revolution.”
—Brenda Knight, author of Women of the Beat Generation

“Times They Were A-Changing is the book long missing from the packed second-wave feminism shelf. Finally, the women you never heard from are speaking in their own powerful voices about how each pushed America toward greater equality and justice. If you are a woman over a certain age, you will find yourself in this book’s stories. If you are a woman of any other age, you will find your own story informed and enriched by these beautifully written, honest, and evocative essays.”
—Gloria Feldt, Cofounder and President of Take the Lead, former President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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]]> Cleans Up Nicely https://shewritespress.com/product/cleans-up-nicely/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cleans-up-nicely Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:02:05 +0000 http://shewritespress.com/?post_type=product&p=7267 When twenty-something artist Erica Mason moves from laid-back Mexico to Manhattan in the mid-1970s, she finds a hard-edged, decadent, and radically evolving art scene. Peppered with characters who could only come from the latter days of the “turn-on-and-drop-out” ’60s in then-crumbling New York (a spaced-out drummer who’s completely given up on using or making money, a [...]

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]]> “Erica Mason’s rite of passage is not only a love affair with art, men, alcohol, drugs, and jazz in the swirl that was the downtown scene in a radically evolving era in New York, but also a resurrection from addiction and self-delusion. At once fast-moving, funny, and heartrending, this is a deftly handled study of one gifted young woman’s path from self-destruction to self-knowledge, self-respect, and well-being.”
—Randolph Hogan, former New York Times Book Review editor

“Cleans Up Nicely is a pitch-perfect, picaresque tale of love lost and found, talent squandered and reclaimed, and friendship forgotten and redeemed in gritty 1970s New York. It all spins around Erica, a burgeoning artist with a peripatetic past and a talent for courting trouble. In evocative prose, Dahl gives us an insider’s look at New York’s demimonde, a motley assortment of bartenders, bosses, art dealers, academics, musicians, radical feminists, writers, working girls, pimps, pushers, and hangers-on.”
—Joan Duncan Oliver, Editor at Large, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and author of The Meaning of Nice

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]]> Warrior Mother https://shewritespress.com/product/warrior-mother/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=warrior-mother Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:59:56 +0000 http://shewritespress.com/?post_type=product&p=7265 2014 USA Best Book Awards: Nominee, Autobiography/Memoir Warrior Mother is the true story of a mother’s fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases. When Sheila Collins’s best friend, dying of breast cancer, asked her to accompany [...]

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“We have to make art out of what happens to us,” writes Sheila K. Collins. Warrior Mother is a testament to how art-making, done in a sacred context,can transform tremendous loss. Collins reminds us of the endurance andhealing power of love–especially a mother’s love.”
—Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, author of Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir

“Just as love survives death, so too does spirit supplant mere survival. Sheila K. Collins has faced a parent’s worst fears and learned to still dance in their wake. Warrior Mother is a mother’s manual of profound honesty, hope, and healing.”
—Marc Nieson, author of Schoolhouse: A Memoir in 13 Lessons

“With courage and grace, Sheila K. Collins’ Warrior Mother generously invites the reader on her heartbreaking journey, with equal doses of candor and sensitivity. Admirably free of self-pity, physically and emotionally precise, her story is bound to enlighten others who have grieved and healed from the loss of a child.”
—Sarah Saffian, author of Ithaka: A Daughter’s Memoir of Being Found

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