General Info

Established in 1854, Beacon Press is an independent publisher of nonfiction and fiction and has published many famous classics, including James Baldwin s Notes of a Native Son , Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man , Jean Baker Miller's Toward a New Psychology of Women and Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology . The company is an associate member of the Association of American University Presses and is a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Its publishing program also emphasizes on religion, history, current affairs, political science, gay, lesbian and gender studies, education, African-American studies, women's studies, child and family issues and nature and the environment.