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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. |
