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Beacon Press books seek to change the way readers think about fundamental issues, promoting such values as freedom of speech and thought, the importance of economic and social justice issues, religious pluralism, respect for our environment, and the importance of the arts in a civil society.Beacon has published several national bestsellers, and its books are frequently reviewed and discussed in national print and broadcast media.They are also used in university and secondary school curricula, citywide reading programs, and reading groups, and within a variety of organizational and faith - based reading programs.

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With Her Fist Raised
Author: Laura L Lovett
Product Code: 5915
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/18/2022
 

The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement


 
 
Price: $16.00
Women and Other Monsters
Author: Jess Zimmerman
Product Code: 8921
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/08/2022
 

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism


 
 
Price: $16.95
Women Warriors
Author: Pamela D Toler
Product Code: 6956
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/25/2020
 
Who says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor
 
 
Price: $16.00
Women Writing Resistance
Editor: Jennifer Browdy
Product Code: 6709
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publication Date: 10/10/2017
 

Essays on Latinx and Caribbean identity and on globalization by renowned women writers, including Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid


 
 
Price: $18.00
Woody Guthrie
Author: Gustavus Stadler
Product Code: 5903
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/05/2021
 

Dismantles the Woody Guthrie we have been taught—the rough-and-ready rambling’ man—to reveal an artist who discovered how intimacy is crucial for political struggle


 
 
Price: $18.00
Writing Hard Stories
Author: Melanie Brooks
Product Code: 6555
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/07/2017
 

Acclaimed memoirists describe the process of writing their most painful memories


 
 
Price: $17.95
Yes to Life
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Product Code: 8910
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/31/2021
 

A Rediscovered, Previously Untranslated Masterpiece by the Author of the International Bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning


 
 
Price: $14.00
You Can Tell Just by Looking
Authors: Ann Pelegrini, Michael Amico, Michael Bronski
Product Code: 2906
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/01/2013
 

 
 
Price: $16.00
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - New Edition
Author: Howard Zinn
Product Code: 6768
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/18/2018
 
A new edition of Howard Zinn’s landmark memoir that chronicles his lifelong commitment to social justice and steadfast belief that ordinary people can change history
 
 
Price: $17.00
You Just Need to Lose Weight
Author: Aubrey Gordon
Product Code: 3197
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/10/2023
 

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice


 
 
Price: $15.95
 

Debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issues


 
 
Price: $16.00