Books published by Seal Press

This sixth installment in the Seal Studies series addresses the socialization of girls in today's society and the media's influence on gender norms

Chelsea Whistle is Michelle Tea's gripping coming-of-age memoir, now in an updated package

A tantalizing selection of twenty steamy and seductive tales by seasoned erotica writer Hanne Blank.

A mother and daughter share their candid struggles with addiction-thirty years apart-giving readers insight into how to break the cycle

A wise and humorous book addressing the concerns of parents who are making the leap from one child to two-or more

Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai, bore the child of the head of the British Secret Service before World War II, and finally returned to New York to live and write in Greenwich Village. In this memoir, first published as essays in The New Yorker, Hahn writes vividly and amusingly about the people and places she came to know and love -- with an eye for the curious and a heart for the exotic.

An inspiring collection of writing by female expatriates follows dozens of women on globe-trotting adventures that will take them as far afield as Borneo, China, and the Ukraine.

Twelve of the world's best female athletes at the top of their game-what motivates them to train and what pushes them to win

An important story of what happens after the unexpected death of a spouse

The first practical guide for people who want to assist a friend or loved on in her struggle to escape an abusive relationship

A timely anthology on being female expats in a Muslim country-and how the Turkish landscape, psyche, people, and customs have transformed their lives

Completely revised for today's parents, this definitive queer parenting guidebook covers topics from how to get pregnant to coping with teens

Writer, activist and artist Connie Panzarino was born in 1947 with the rare disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type III, formerly called Amytonia Congenita. Throughout a childhood filled with both pain and joy, she strove to define herself: "I knew I was different. Now I had a name for the difference, like being Italian or Jewish. I was an Amytonia. I didn't understand if that meant that I would never walk, or if all it meant was lack of muscle tone. I didn't know that most children with this disease die before they're five years old." In this deeply moving and eloquent memoir, Connie Panzarino describes her decades of struggle and triumph, her relationships with family members and long-time lover Ron Kovic (author of Born on the Fourth of July), her eventual turn to lesbianism, and her years of pioneering work in the disability rights movement. Filled with spirit, passion and defiance, The Me In The Mirror tells the story of a remarkable life.