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LAST COPIES, BRAND NEW from the Publisher: RE/Search #13: Angry Women

Armed with total contempt for dogma, stereotype and cliche, these creative visionaries probe deep into our social foundation of taboos, beliefs and totalitarian linguistic contradictions from whence spring (as well as thwart) our theories, imaginings, behavior and dreams.

8 1/2" x 11" 240 pages, 135 photos and illustrations. twenty-five dollars (almost out of print). View the Table Of Content.

Reviews:

"When I’m feeling a little unsure of how to proceed, I consult my own personal Magic 8-Ball: RE/SEARCH's "Angry Women." I especially love the interviews with bell hooks, Avital Ronell, and Diamanda Galas, and I find something new and butt-kicking every single time I read it." - blog

"This book is a Bible. . . it hails the dawn of a new era--the era of an inclusive, fun, sexy feminism. . . Every interview contains brilliant moments of wisdom." -- American Book Review

"This is hardly the nurturing, womanist vision espoused in the 1970s. The view here is largely pro-sex, pro-porn, and pro-choice. Separatism is out, community in. Art and activism are inseparable from life and being." -- The Village Voice

"These women--potent agents for cultural destabilization--are definitely dangerous models of subversion!" -- MONDO 2000

"These informed discussions arm readers verbally, philosophically and behaviorally and provide uncompromising role models for women actively seeking change." -- Publishers Weekly

"I was vaguely, immediately turned off to Sapphire until I read her interview in Angry Women, which is one of the better things I've read this morning ... but not as good as the interview with Avital Ronell. Fuck, such an amazing issue!" - from a blog, Jan 2009

Some Quotes from ANGRY WOMEN: "I mean, what can they do to you? They can put you in jail - if you can see the ability to survive in any context as a mark of your strength, then that's not going to break your spirit." -- Diamanda Galas

"Yes, sex had nothing to do with a relationship. I actually felt it was a great way to get to know people." -- Annie Sprinkle

"I didn't want to channel my "art" into a painting that some rich person would buy and hang in his study and the close the door. So I made a conscious decision to do something that couldn't be bought or sold that easily." -- Karen Finley

"So no matter where I'm living, I call it a museum or an institute and that makes me happy, because then I am art living in art. Doing this also gives me permission to make a place a 'work of art' instead of a 'home'." -- Linda Montano

"...I was half-lying on the ground next to him, with my arms around his body. I realized that this was the first time in my life that I had felt able to really touch my father's body. I was holding hard to it - with my love - and with my grief. And my grief was partly that my father, whom I loved, was dying...that the only time I would feel free to touch him without feeling threatened by his power over me was when he lay dead - it's unbearable to me. And I think there can hardly be a woman who hasn't felt a comparable grief." -- bell hooks

"To be free of these negative, self-defeating, painful, alienating, lonely feelings, is really to accomplish a great achievement. Because "they" don't want you to feel anything but what they've drilled into you; they want to steal your pleasure - your pleasure zones; they know that when you're miserable you're not as effective or strong as when you're happy. And when you as a woman can make yourself happy, empowered, strong, loving, concerned, nurturing and encouraging (especially toward other women)...when that empowerment can be restored or regenerated in a loving fashion without threat, abuse, violence, cruelty, or ego...that's when you start developing. -- Lydia Lunch

"We live in 2 worlds simultaneously. Everything in the dominant culture is ours also; there's this 2-way mirror effect; you can see their world, but somehow they can't see yours! So you have your world as source material, but you also have access to theirs. And they refuse to see your world because they consider their world to be the only one of value." -- Wanda Coleman

"Society cuts off your limbs and leaves you a 'human torso,' but now I feel that "starfish" quality; that you can grow new limbs - that's where I'm at now." -- Sapphire

"Sometimes in my writing I've felt I was re-victimizing myself by exposing so much! But I know that I hadn't done anything wrong and had nothing to be ashamed of; that I wasn't re-victimizing myself - it just felt like that. The reality was: I was handing back shame that wasn't mine." -- Sapphire

"Some women who are in a situation which is terrible for them don't see a way out, so they adapt. And one way to adapt is: to find pleasurable what is not, because you can't live in total pain all the time." -- Kathy Acker

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