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Beautiful my mane in the wind / Catherine Petroski -- By great good fortune / Emily Hiestand -- Drummer / Linda Smukler -- How Lars Porsena of Clusium got Opal into trouble / Opal Whiteley -- Bird woman / Suniti Namjoshi -- Beautiful and cruel / Sandra Cisneros -- From An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- From Good girls don't wear trousers / Lara Cardella -- From Memoirs of a dutiful daughter / Simone de Beauvoir -- Horse camp / Ursula K. Le Guin -- From Sula / Toni Morrison -- In the night / Jamaica Kincaid -- Adventures of the dread sisters / Alexis de Veaux -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Woman, man, and trousers / Nina Newington -- Johnnieruth / Becky Birtha -- From Allegra Maud Goldman / Edith Konecky -- From The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Lizzie Higgins / Nancy Brooks Brody -- Horsegirl / Elizabeth Rose Campbell -- From The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers -- The child who loved raods / Cora Sandel -- From Lives of girls and women / Alice Munro -- From Crews / Maria Hinojosa -- From Glimpses of fifty years : the autobiography of an American woman / Frances Willard -- Tommy, the unsentimental / Willa Cather -- Drummer / Bia Lowe -- From sacred country / Rose Tremain -- From The cavalry maiden / Nadezhda Durova -- From Orlando / Virginia Woolf -- From Stone butch blues / Leslie Feinberg -- Ruthy and Edie / Grace Paley -- Al-Dawwára / Barbara Nimri Aziz -- Into the woods / Gail B. Griffin -- The conceit of girls / Teresa Jordan -- Tomboy / Anne LaBastille -- New Year's eve, lunch, housework ; Stripped / Minnie Bruce Pratt -- The tomboy returns! / Susan Moon -- A jewel for a friend / J. California Cooper -- My mother and the forbidden fruit / Colette. |
