Women in the trees
Subtitle: U.S. women's short stories about battering and resistance, 1839-1994
By: edited with an introduction and afterword by Susan Koppelman ; foreword by Alix Kates Shulman.
Contributors: Koppelman, Susan.
Edition: 1st Feminist Press ed.
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Abused women -- Fiction.; Abused wives -- Fiction.; Family violence -- Fiction.; Marital conflict -- Fiction.; Women -- United States -- Fiction.; Short stories, American -- Women authors.; American fiction -- 20th century.; American fiction -- 19th century.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Women in the Trees marshals the power of literature to confront, explore, and speak out about domestic violence, an experience too often surrounded by silence. Drawing upon over a century of American women's short stories, Susan Koppelman uncovers a powerful legacy of literature that grapples with this harsh reality in the lives of woman. Acclaimed upon its first publication, this updated edition features new selections. Together, these stories form a unique and ultimately empowering collection notable for both its emotional impact and its literary wealth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I, from A new home, who'll follow? / Caroline Kirkland (1839); title: Slavery's pleasant homes / Lydia Maria Child (1843); title: A Dorlesky-Burpy family story / Marietta Holley (1883); title: Jack the fisherman / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1887); title: In Sabine / Kate Chopin (1893); title: Tony's wife / Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1899); title: The quiet woman / Mary Heaton Vorse (1907); title: The gold vanity set / María Cristina Mena (1913); title: A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell (1917); title: Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston (1926); title: Hattie Turner versus Hattie Turner / Fannie Hurst (1935); title: Pre-Freudian / Dorothy Canfield (1936); title: The brown house / Hisaye Yamamoto (1951); title: That she would dance no more / Jean Wheeler Smith (1968); title: To be a man / Ann Allen Shockley (1969); title: After Saturday nite comes Sunday / Sonia Sanchez (1971); title: The day my father tried to kill us / Pat Staten (1974); title: Las dos hermanas / Rosalie Otero Peralta (1975); title: Bertha Schneider's existential edge / Andrea Dworkin (1975); title: Ghosts like them / Shirley Ann Taggart (1978); title: Woman waiting for train at dusk / Constance Pierce (1982); title: "I don't believe this" / Merrill Joan Gerber (1984); title: Minerva writes poems / Sandra Cisneros (1984); title: Linoleum roses / Sandra Cisneros (1984); title: Noises / Jane Bradley (1989); title: If it weren't for the honeysuckle / Estela Portillo Trambley (1990); title: Women in the trees / Pat Murphy (1990); title: The man who loved his wife / Janet LaPierre (1990); title: Wild turkeys / Beth Brant (1991); title: South Sangamon / Sandra Cisneros (1993); title: The jewelry collection of Marta La Güera / Mary Helen Ponce (1993); title: Happy ending / Barbara Harman (1994).