Felice Newman is an American author, publisher, sex educator, and coach of soma studies.
Newman studied human sexuality through the San Francisco Sex Information and the Body Electric School.
[citation needed] Newman co-founded the independent publishing company Cleis Press,[1][2] with Frédérique Delacoste in 1980.
The first book published by Cleis Press was Fight Back: Feminist Resistance to Male Violence, coedited by Newman and Delacoste.
It articulates a spectrum of theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence on female resistance to male violence, providing a nuanced analysis of the complexities involved in these interactions.