The Oxford book of women's writing in the United States /
Reveling in the awareness that the best U.S. women's writing is, quite simply, some of the best in the world, editors Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson have chosen selections spanning four centuries and reflecting the rich variety of American women's lives. The collection embraces...
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Table of Contents:
- Tom's husband / Sarah Orne Jewett
- Tony's wife
- Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson
- The revolt of "Mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman
- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
- A male Magdalene from Samantha vs. Josiah / Marietta Holley
- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin
- The other two / Edith Wharton
- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto
- Freedom / Nella Larsen
- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
- O yes / Tillie Olsen
- A late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor
- A worn path / Eudora Welty
- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
- Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates
- Miss Clairol / Helena Maria Viramontes
- Recitatif / Toni Morrison
- In the American society / Gish Jen
- May's lion / Ursula K. Le Guin
- Life in the iron-mills / Rebecca Harding Davis
- Old Mrs. Harris / Willa Cather
- To my dear and loving husband ; The flesh and the spirit / Anne Bradstreet
- On imagination / Phillis Wheatley
- The soul selects her own society ; This is my letter to the world ; My life had stood--a loaded gun ; After great pain, a formal feeling comes / Emily Dickinson
- Decade / Amy Lowell
- The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser
- Lineage / Margaret Walker
- Religion, from Ulysses / Gwendolyn Brooks
- In an iridescent time / Ruth Stone
- Woman me / Maya Angelou
- Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath
- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich
- When I was growing up / Nellie Wong
- The thirty eighth year / Lucille Clifton
- Song for a thin sister / Audre Lorde
- What the gypsy said to her children / Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Daystar / Rita Dove
- A history of costume / Michelle Cliff
- Suicide note / Janice Mirikitani
- Remember / Joy Harjo
- As children together / Carolyn Forche
- from On the equality of the sexes / Judith Sargent Murray
- A woman at forty, from Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller
- The working-girls of New York, from Folly as it flies / Fanny Fern
- The case stated / Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- from The higher education of women / Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
- The coyote-spirit and the weaving woman / Mary Hunter Austin
- Women are hungry / Meridel Le Sueur
- More than just a shrine: paying homage to the ghosts of Ellis Island / Mary Gordon
- Longing to die of old age / Alice Walker
- Last words on Vietnam, 1987 / Martha Gellhorn
- Amazons in Appalachia / Marilou Awiakta
- If men could menstruate / Gloria Steinem
- Why I want a wife / Judy Syfers
- The good guys / Anna Quindlen
- Overtones / Alice Gerstenberg
- Trifles: a play in one act / Susan Glaspell
- Bitter cane / Genny Lim
- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth
- Men in your life / Alice Childress
- from United States / Laurie Anderson
- Roslyn Malamud: the coup, from Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith
- Native American ritual
- Kopis'taya (a gathering of spirits) / Paula Gunn Allen
- Naming power / Wendy Rose
- The foot-washing / George Ella Lyon
- from The women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor
- The sixth work: rituals for the extended family, from Jambalaya / Luisah Teish
- The ceremonies of community, from The telling / E.M. Broner
- To John Adams / Abigail Adams
- Letter to the editors of Freedom's Journal / Matilda
- Letter XV: man equally guilty with woman in the fall / Sarah Moore Grimke
- Diary / Louisa May Alcott
- Afternoon in the woods, from Rural hours / Susan Fenimore Cooper
- The trials of girlhood, from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Ann Jacobs
- To John Brown / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- To Louisa Picquet / Elizabeth Ramsey
- Diary / Mary Boykin Chesnut
- To Liane De Pougy / Natalie Barney
- To Ben Reitman / Emma Goldman
- from The school days of an Indian girl / Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
- from, Leaves from the mental portfolio of an Eurasian / Sui Sin Far
- One farmer's wife / Anonymous
- To Anita Pollitzer / Georgia O'Keeffe
- Names, from Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Mary McCarthy
- from Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko
- To Gabriela, a young writer / Pat Mora
- The last return from the sea, from The captain's lady's cookbook
- Bass for Picasso, from The Alice B. Toklas cook book / Alice B. Toklas
- Sunday revival dinner, from The taste of country cooking / Edna Lewis
- Los dias de los muertos, from Food from my heart / Zarela Martinez
- Wild nights--wild nights! ; Come slowly--Eden! ; Volcanoes be in Sicily / Emily Dickinson
- The storm, A sequel to "The 'Cadian ball" / Kate Chopin
- from, Lifting belly / Gertrude Stein
- I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Sea rose / H.D.
- Mandra, II, from Little birds / Anais Nin
- Sappho's reply / Rita May Brown
- She didn't think we were married / Olga Broumas and Jane Miller
- Fifteen, from Autumn sequence / Jan Freeman.