Women in the trees : U.S. women's short stories about battering and resistance, 1839-1994

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Women in the Trees marshalls the power of literature to confront domestic violence, an experience that is still too often neglected or condoned, surrounded by silence and shame. Journeying through a complex psychological landscape of betrayal, fear, and pain, some women continue to endure abuse, som...

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Other Authors: Shulman, Alix Kates (writer of foreword.), Koppelman, Susan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2004.
Edition:1st Feminist Press ed.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Abused women > Fiction.
Abused wives > Fiction.
Family violence > Fiction.
Marital conflict > Fiction.
Women > United States > Fiction.
Short stories, American.
American fiction > Women authors.
American fiction > 20th century.
American fiction > 19th century.
Femmes victimes de violence > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Violence familiale > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Conflits conjugaux > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes > États-Unis > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Nouvelles américaines.
Roman américain > 20e siècle.
Roman américain > 19e siècle.
Abused wives.
Abused women.
American fiction.
Family violence.
Marital conflict.
Women.
United States
Barnard Alum Collection.
short stories.
Short stories
Fiction.
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter I, from A new home, who'll follow? / Caroline Kirkland (1839)
  • Slavery's pleasant homes / Lydia Maria Child (1843)
  • A Dorlesky-Burpy family story / Marietta Holley (1883)
  • Jack the fisherman / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1887)
  • In Sabine / Kate Chopin (1893)
  • Tony's wife / Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1899)
  • The quiet woman / Mary Heaton Vorse (1907)
  • The gold vanity set / María Cristina Mena (1913)
  • A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell (1917)
  • Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston (1926)
  • Hattie Turner versus Hattie Turner / Fannie Hurst (1935)
  • Pre-Freudian / Dorothy Canfield (1936)
  • The brown house / Hisaye Yamamoto (1951)
  • That she would dance no more / Jean Wheeler Smith (1968)
  • To be a man / Ann Allen Shockley (1969)
  • After Saturday nite comes Sunday / Sonia Sanchez (1971)
  • The day my father tried to kill us / Pat Staten (1974)
  • Las dos hermanas / Rosalie Otero Peralta (1975)
  • Bertha Schneider's existential edge / Andrea Dworkin (1975)
  • Ghosts like them / Shirley Ann Taggart (1978)
  • Woman waiting for train at dusk / Constance Pierce (1982)
  • "I don't believe this" / Merrill Joan Gerber (1984)
  • Minerva writes poems / Sandra Cisneros (1984)
  • Linoleum roses / Sandra Cisneros (1984)
  • Noises / Jane Bradley (1989)
  • If it weren't for the honeysuckle / Estela Portillo Trambley (1990)
  • Women in the trees / Pat Murphy (1990)
  • The man who loved his wife / Janet LaPierre (1990)
  • Wild turkeys / Beth Brant (1991)
  • South Sangamon / Sandra Cisneros (1993)
  • The jewelry collection of Marta La Güera / Mary Helen Ponce (1993)
  • Happy ending / Barbara Harman (1994).

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