num_pages: 336
description: This groundbreaking anthology of forty-seven short stories by women celebrates the various manifestations of the Wild Woman, who has been "civilized" out of many women in today's society. Here is an exciting combination of some of our best-known writers and some exhilarating newcomers.Tiger's bride, the / Angela Carter --Woman from America / Bessie Head --English disease, the / Nina Fitzpatrick --Smile of a mountain witch, the / Ohba Minako --Two word / Isabel Allende --Debutante, the / Leonora Carrington --Liking men / Margaret Atwood --Simmering / Margaret Atwood --In the garden / Darcey Steinke --Odalisque, Extinct, the / Diana Hartog --Bloodmantle / Tanith Lee --Sleeping beauty, revisted / Jil McCorkle --All strapped in / Sue Thomas --Orchids to you, dear / Fiona Cooper --Really, doesn't crime pay? / Alice Walker --Stone-eating girl / Meena Alexander --Raw brunettes, the / Lorraine Schein --I like to look / Kathy Page --Planetesimal / Keri Hulme --Perma Red / Debra Earling --Queen's chamber, the / A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) / Her thighs / Dorothy Allison --Four bare legs in a bed / Helen Simpson --From how to save your own life / Erica Jong --It's bad luck to die / Elizabeth McCracken --Mindmovie / Christine Slater --A day at the peep show / Veronica Vera --Roses / Evelyn Lau --Julia and the bazooka / Anna Kavan --Silver water / Amy Bloom --In my next life / Pam Houston --Many Mothers / Beverley Daurio --Suicide / Mariarosa Sclauzero / Autobiography / Carol Emshwiller --Gift, the / Josephine Hart --Lucrece / Janice Williamson --Into the roots / Janice Galloway --I do what I can and I am what I am / Fay Weldon --Lightning rod / Melanie Tem --Unsatisfactory rape, the / Bev Jafek
language: English
title: Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women
titlecomplete: Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women
genres: Fiction, Feminism, Short Stories, Anthologies
ratings_count: 97
awards: awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
publisher: Harry N. Abrams