The Issue Is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance SIGNED FIRST EDITION
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1992.
First Edition. Paperback. This signed first edition comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist, theorist, activist, and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen (1950–2023). First published in this 1992 paperback original, Jewish lesbian feminist activist Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz' essays in this collection address racism, class, Israel and Palestine, war, anti-Semitism, violence against women and violence by women, tracing and interrogating the central issue of power. The Issue Is Power remains in print from the women's multicultural nonprofit press Aunt Lute Books, no less relevant three decades later.
"Here is a book for everyone who dares to want to help make history. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitzis passionate, strategic, pithy, generous, realistic, controversial, unquenchable—like the best of our movements for change. As a writer and lifelong doer, she gives us reasons to believe in achievable justice, and maps for acting on that belief."—Adrienne Rich
Signed by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz to title page. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9" X 6". iv, 262pp. Mild edgewear to red pictorial wraps, with light bumping to corners and foxing to edges of text block. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Errata slip laid in. Very good. Item #17213
ISBN: 1879960168
Price: $35.00