This gem of a book arrived from Les Figues Press over the holidays and I can't help but let you all know about it now. With interesting and engaging texts, a smart and perplexing design, and one wacky and beautiful cover; if you are interested in questions of femininity in relation to writing you need to buy this book. – Guillaume

WERTHEIM, Christine [Ed]: FEMINAISSANCE
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WERTHEIM, Christine [Ed]. FEMINAISSANCE. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. New. 129pp. FEMINAISSANCE = collectivity; feminine ecriture; the politics of writing; text and voice; the body as a site of contestation, insurgence and pleasure; race and writing; gender as performance; writing about other women writers; economic inequities; Helene Cixous; monstrosity; madness; and aesthetics. FEMINAISSANCE = Dodie Bellamy, Caroline Bergvall, Meiling Cheng, Wanda Coleman, Bhanu Kapil, Chris Kraus, Susan McCabe, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Juliana Spahr, Christine Wertheim, Stephanie Young, Lidia Yuknavitch. FEMINAISSANCE = "If the fact that women do not say 'We' was one of the constitutive problems for 20th century feminism, the fact that women do and still clearly feel the need to say 'We' is just as rich and interesting a topic for feminism today. The writings gathered here prove feminism to be alive and more relevant to all genders than ever: not just because feminist discourse remains a political necessity, but because of its artistic and intellectual pleasures"--Sianne Ngai.