The Oxford book of women's writing in the United States / edited by Linda Wagner-Martin, Cathy N. Davidson.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wagner-Martin, Linda
Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
American literature > Women authors.
Women > United States > Literary collections.
Genre:
Literary collections.
Physical Description:x, 596 pages ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Women's writing in the United States.
Format: Book
Partial Contents:
  • Part 1. Short fiction. 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 María 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
  • Part 2. Poetry. Poetry from the beginning ; Contemporary poetry
  • Part 3. Public lives. Women and the nation ; The struggle for understanding ; From the personal to the political
  • Part 4. Acting out. 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
  • Part 5. Private lives. The republic of women's letters ; Women in the nineteenth century ; Turning the century ; Modern voices
  • Part 6. Bodily pleasures. Recipes ; Erotica.