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Just us girls Just us girls Wendy Rountree vi, 124 p. ; 23 cm OL11913918W
American women writers to 1800 American women writers to 1800 Sharon M. Harris American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology cap… OL16100538W
Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south Jonathan Daniel Wells "The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into southern intellectual life, the fight for women's r… OL16298220W
The Cambridge history of American women's literature The Cambridge history of American women's literature Dale M. Bauer "The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, c… OL16521495W
Women writers of the contemporary South Women writers of the contemporary South Peggy Whitman Prenshaw Discusses the work of Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, Gail Godwin, Beverly Lowry, Shirley Ann Grau, Lisa Alther, Ellen Douglas, Doris Betts, Elizabeth Spencer, Mary Lee Settle, Berry Morgan, Rita Mae Brown… OL16999437W
"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?" "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?" Tahneer Oksman American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing … OL17322614W
Crazy Woman Creek Crazy Woman Creek Gaydell M. Collier,Linda M. Hasselstrom,Nancy Curtis Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palomin… OL17805226W
Black women writers (1950-1980) Black women writers (1950-1980) Mari Evans Recent black women writers discuss their lives and work, followed by critical essays by both men and women. OL18124938W
African American women writers African American women writers Brenda Scott Wilkinson Discusses the lives and work of such notable African American women authors as: Phillis Wheatley, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Terry McMillan. OL18150351W
The feminization of American culture The feminization of American culture Douglas, Ann This is one of those rare books that let us see with a fresh and startling clarity the underlying causes, meaning, and influence through time of profound a cultural phenomenon. In it, a brilliant you… OL1869175W
The Sacred Hoop The Sacred Hoop Paula Gunn Allen This pioneering work documents the continuing vitality of the American Indian tradition and of women's leadership within that tradition. In her new preface to this edition, Allen reflects on the rema… OL1890408W
We shall be heard We shall be heard Patricia Kennedy,Gloria O'Shields,Patricia Scileppi Kennedy,Gloria Hartmann O'Shields xxvii, 353 p. : 24 cm OL19473951W
The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Hollis Robbins "A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American W… OL19730955W
Texas women writers Texas women writers Sylvia Ann Grider,Lou Halsell Rodenberger A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists. OL20351066W
To write like a woman To write like a woman Joanna Russ From the back cover: Joanna Russ has written -- as novelist, short-story writer, and critic -- on science fiction, fantasy, and feminism. These essays reflect the breadth of Russ's critical work,… OL3332547W
That's What She Said That's What She Said Rayna Green A collection of poetry and stories by sixteen Native American women authors. OL4094921W
Feminist popular fiction Feminist popular fiction Merja Makinen "Can feminist writers appropriate popular genres? This book argues that they can and have done so successfully. Situating feminist writers' move into genre fiction as part of the left's interest in t… OL4799308W
The older woman in recent fiction The older woman in recent fiction Zoe Brennan "This critical study explores late twentieth century novels by women writers that feature female protagonists over the age of sixty. These novels create alternate discourses on aging to those largely… OL5720057W
Writing out of place Writing out of place Judith Fetterley,Marjorie Pryse "In Writing out of Place, Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse explore a countertradition of nineteenth-century writing previously ignored by American literary history. The writers who comprise this t… OL5952071W
The undergraduate's companion to women writers and their web sites The undergraduate's companion to women writers and their web sites Katharine A. Dean "Devoted exclusively to women writers from the English-speaking world, this book presents undergraduate students with an abundance of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research.… OL5954743W
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