Crossing Press (Feminist Series)

Alta. The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays, and Poetry. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1980.

Ashford, Janet Isaacs. The Whole Birth Catalog: A Sourcebook for Choices in Childbirth. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.

-----. Birth Stories: The Experience Remembered. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.

Beck, Evelyn Torton. Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

Biren, Joan E. Seeing Women: 100 Years of Women’s Photography. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.

Boucher, Sandy. The Notebooks of Leni Clare: And Other Short Stories. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

Bunch, Charlotte, Jacqueline St. Joan and Sandy Pfaff. Feminism in the 80’s: Facing Down the Right. Printed by Inkling Press and distributed by Crossing Press, 1981.

Bunch, Charlotte and Sandra Pollack, editors. Learning Our Way: Essays in Feminist Education. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.

Carson, Anne. Feminist Spirituality and the Feminine Divine: An Annotated Bibliography. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1986.

Clardy, Andrea. Heroines. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982. (I believe this is a calendar. Note in WorldCat states: Calendar contains photographs and brief biographies of famous women.)

Clausen, Jan. Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover: Stories. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1980.

Clausen, Jan. Sinking Stealing: A Novel. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

Brady, Maureen. Folly: A Novel. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

Cliff, Michelle. Abeng: A Novel. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.

Derricotte, Toi. Natural Birth: Poems. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.

Edwards, Margot and Mary Waldorf. Reclaiming Birth: History and Heroines of American Childbirth Reform. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.

Frye, Marilyn. The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.

Gardner-Gordon, Joy. A Difficult Decision: A Compassionate Book about Abortion. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1986.

Geller, Ruth. Triangles: A Novel. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.

Gill, Elaine. The Women Writers Calendar: 1985. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.

-----. The Women Writers: 1986 calendar. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

------. The Women Writers 1987 calendar. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1986.

-----. Mountain Moving Day: Poems by Women. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1978.

Grahn, Judy. The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1978.

-----. True to Life Adventure Stories. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983. (Unclear if this is a reprint edition or if CP is distributing it from the stock left from Diana Press where it had a copyright date of 1978.)

-----. The Queen of Wands: Poetry. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

Hutchinson, Marcia Germaine. Transforming Body Image: Learning to Love the Body You Have. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1985.

Larkin, Joan. The Women Writers Calendar: 1983. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.

-----. Sister Outsider. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.

Maddock, Mary (translator). Three Russian Women Poets: Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, Bella Akhmadulina. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.

Mariechild, Diane. Mother Wit: A Feminist Guide to Psychic Development. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1981.

Mariechild, Diane. Crystal Visions: Nine Meditations for Personal and Planetary Peace. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

Miner, Valerie. Winter’s Edge. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

-----. Murder in the English Department. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

-----. Movement: A Novel in Stories. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

Morris, Kathy. Dressing Up: Photographs by Women: 1986. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

Newman, Felice. 12 Small Press Women Poets. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1978.

Noonan, Bode. Red Beans & Rice: Recipes for Lesbian Health & Wisdom. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1986.

Parker, Pat. Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker 1961-1978. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983. (I think that Crossing Press is distributing copies of the cloth edition of the book and that this is not a separate printing.)

Piercy, Marge and Ira Wood. The Last White Class: A Play about Neighborhood Terror. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1980.

Quirk, Cathleen. Rue and Grace: Poems. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1981.

Randall, Margaret. Women Brave in the Face of Danger: Photographs of and Writings by Latin and North American Women. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

Rule, Jane. Lesbian Images. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.

Russ, Joanna. On Strike Against God. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1980.

-----. Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Feminist Essays. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

Sausser, Gail with illustrations by Alice Muhlback. Lesbian Etiquette: Humorous Essays. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1986.

Scott, Mary A. A Woman’s Book. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.

South, Cris. Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses: A Novel of Resistance. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.

Strongin, Lynn. Bones and Kim. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1980.

Vacha, Keith, and Cassie Damewood. Quiet Fire: Memoirs of Older Gay Men. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

Zahava, Irene. Earth Songs: A Book of Affirmations. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1986.

Zahava, Irene. Hear the Silence: Stories by Women of Myth, Magic, & Renewal. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1986.

Zanotti, Barbara. A Faith of One’s Own: Explorations by Catholic Lesbians. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1986.

Crossing Press published an array of books. This bibliography captures a substantial portion of the Crossing Press feminist series, books that they published from 1978 until the late 1980s. It does not cover the full array of their list which included books by and about gay men, poetry in translation, an extensive cook book selection, and much more.

At some point Crossing Press acquired stock from Out & Out Books and acted as a distributor for their titles. The following Out & Out Books have titles listed under Crossing Press: Toward a Black Feminist Criticism, a pamphlet by Barbara Smith; Taking Notice, poems by Marilyn Hacker.

There are two locations catalogued for Crossing Press: Trumansburg, NY and Freedom, CA.

This note from the fall 1983 catalogue is in WorldCat: What we are learning at The Crossing Press is the process of building on our strengths. We entered the birth market with a milestone book ... Now we plan to build on its success with a series of books on birth and early parenting ... With the titles announced in this catalog, the Feminist Series is now fourteen books strong ... Gay literature and literature in translation are two of our long-standing interests ... And in calendars and photographs, we are gaining assurance. Our assortment of postcards has grown to nearly 200 ...

Crossing Press also distributed books from Women’s Press Collective including In Other Words: Notes on the Politics and Morale of Survival by Alice Molloy.

Crossing Press also has a record in WorldCat as the distributor of The Greasy Thumb Automechanics Manual for Women, published by the Iowa City Women’s Press by Barb Wyatt.

Crossing Press also has a record as the distributor of My Special Father and Me by Jennifer Jaffe, published by Shameless Hussy Press, 1981.

Compiled by Julie R. Enszer, December 2025.