num_pages: 339
description: This collection of stories, about bad girls and wicked women, extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. The authors featured include Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Colette, Bessie Head, Katherine Mansfield and Jamaica Kincaid.CONTENTSIntroductionElizabeth Jolley: The Last CropLeonora Carrington: The DébutanteRocky Gámez: From The Gloria StoriesBessie Head: LifeJane Bowles: A Guatemalan IdyllKatherine Mansfield: The Young GirlSuniti Namjoshi: Three Feminist FablesColette: The Rainy MoonGeorge Egerton: WedlockFrances Towers: VioletAma Ata Aidoo: The PlumsGrace Paley: A Woman Young And OldAndrée Chedid: The Long TrialAngela Carter: The Loves Of Lady PurpleDjuna Barnes: The EarthVernon Lee: Oke Of OkehurstJamaica Kincaid: GirlLuo Shu: Aunt Liu
language: English
title: Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories
titlecomplete: Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories
genres: Feminism, Fantasy, Adult, Anthologies, Short Stories, Female Authors, Short Story Collection, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 945
publisher: Penguin Books