The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
By: edited by Linda Wagner-Martin, Cathy N. Davidson.
Contributors: Wagner-Martin, Linda.; Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780195087062
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors; Women -- United States -- Literary collections
Other titles: Women's writing in the United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Tom's husband / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: Tony's wife; title: Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson; title: The revolt of "Mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman; title: The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman; title: A male Magdalene from Samantha vs. Josiah / Marietta Holley; title: A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin; title: The other two / Edith Wharton; title: Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto; title: Freedom / Nella Larsen; title: Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston; title: O yes / Tillie Olsen; title: A late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor; title: A worn path / Eudora Welty; title: The shawl / Cynthia Ozick; title: Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Miss Clairol / Helena Maria Viramontes; title: Recitatif / Toni Morrison; title: In the American society / Gish Jen; title: May's lion / Ursula K. Le Guin; title: Life in the iron-mills / Rebecca Harding Davis; title: Old Mrs. Harris / Willa Cather; title: To my dear and loving husband ; The flesh and the spirit / Anne Bradstreet; title: On imagination / Phillis Wheatley; title: 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; title: Decade / Amy Lowell; title: The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser; title: Lineage / Margaret Walker; title: Religion, from Ulysses / Gwendolyn Brooks; title: In an iridescent time / Ruth Stone; title: Woman me / Maya Angelou; title: Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath; title: Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich; title: When I was growing up / Nellie Wong; title: The thirty eighth year / Lucille Clifton; title: Song for a thin sister / Audre Lorde; title: What the gypsy said to her children / Judith Ortiz Cofer; title: Daystar / Rita Dove; title: A history of costume / Michelle Cliff; title: Suicide note / Janice Mirikitani; title: Remember / Joy Harjo; title: As children together / Carolyn Forche; title: from On the equality of the sexes / Judith Sargent Murray; title: A woman at forty, from Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller; title: The working-girls of New York, from Folly as it flies / Fanny Fern; title: The case stated / Ida B. Wells-Barnett; title: from The higher education of women / Anna Julia Haywood Cooper; title: The coyote-spirit and the weaving woman / Mary Hunter Austin; title: Women are hungry / Meridel Le Sueur; title: More than just a shrine: paying homage to the ghosts of Ellis Island / Mary Gordon; title: Longing to die of old age / Alice Walker; title: Last words on Vietnam, 1987 / Martha Gellhorn; title: Amazons in Appalachia / Marilou Awiakta; title: If men could menstruate / Gloria Steinem; title: Why I want a wife / Judy Syfers; title: The good guys / Anna Quindlen; title: Overtones / Alice Gerstenberg; title: Trifles: a play in one act / Susan Glaspell; title: Bitter cane / Genny Lim; title: Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth; title: Men in your life / Alice Childress; title: from United States / Laurie Anderson; title: Roslyn Malamud: the coup, from Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith; title: Native American ritual; title: Kopis'taya (a gathering of spirits) / Paula Gunn Allen; title: Naming power / Wendy Rose; title: The foot-washing / George Ella Lyon; title: from The women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor; title: The sixth work: rituals for the extended family, from Jambalaya / Luisah Teish; title: The ceremonies of community, from The telling / E.M. Broner; title: To John Adams / Abigail Adams; title: Letter to the editors of Freedom's Journal / Matilda; title: Letter XV: man equally guilty with woman in the fall / Sarah Moore Grimke; title: Diary / Louisa May Alcott; title: Afternoon in the woods, from Rural hours / Susan Fenimore Cooper; title: The trials of girlhood, from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Ann Jacobs; title: To John Brown / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; title: To Louisa Picquet / Elizabeth Ramsey; title: Diary / Mary Boykin Chesnut; title: To Liane De Pougy / Natalie Barney; title: To Ben Reitman / Emma Goldman; title: from The school days of an Indian girl / Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin); title: from, Leaves from the mental portfolio of an Eurasian / Sui Sin Far; title: One farmer's wife / Anonymous; title: To Anita Pollitzer / Georgia O'Keeffe; title: Names, from Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Mary McCarthy; title: from Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko; title: To Gabriela, a young writer / Pat Mora; title: The last return from the sea, from The captain's lady's cookbook; title: Bass for Picasso, from The Alice B. Toklas cook book / Alice B. Toklas; title: Sunday revival dinner, from The taste of country cooking / Edna Lewis; title: Los dias de los muertos, from Food from my heart / Zarela Martinez; title: Wild nights--wild nights! ; Come slowly--Eden! ; Volcanoes be in Sicily / Emily Dickinson; title: The storm, A sequel to "The 'Cadian ball" / Kate Chopin; title: from, Lifting belly / Gertrude Stein; title: I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson; title: Sea rose / H.D.; title: Mandra, II, from Little birds / Anais Nin; title: Sappho's reply / Rita May Brown; title: She didn't think we were married / Olga Broumas and Jane Miller; title: Fifteen, from Autumn sequence / Jan Freeman