Edition |
1st Carroll & Graf ed. |
Description |
x, 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Half-hanged Mary / Margaret Atwood -- Going North / Lucy Taylor -- How I got to be queen / Greg Sarris -- Haunted / Joyce Carol Oates -- The dancer / Patricia Preciado Martin -- The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Lieber -- While she was out / Edward Bryant -- The merry widow / Kate Wilhelm -- Esther goes on the offensive / Bebe Moore Campbell -- This is a story / Jane Yolen -- Over the pass / Susan Mary Malone -- Cold turkey / Carole Nelson Douglas -- Winter's tale / Connie Willis -- A woman is not a potted plant / Alice Walker -- Is anybody listening? / Dawn Raffel -- Incident on and off a mountain road / Joe R. Lansdale -- Wolfer / Gene Wolfe -- Oral / Richard Christian Matheson -- Straw dogs / Taeko Tomioka -- Rope-bound / John A. Day -- Women's stories / Jane Yolen -- How-to books & other absurdities / Erica Jong -- Heat / Nancy Holder -- The wife's story / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Bits and pieces / Lisa Tuttle -- Rabbit hole / Jane Yolen -- Iphigenia / Nancy A. Collins -- Werewomen / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia Watanade -- Lost girls / Pat Cadigan -- Psychofemmes / Melissa Mia Hall -- The wolf's eyelash / Clarissa Pinkola Estes. |
Summary |
Stories on women freeing themselves of inhibitions. In Edward Bryant's While She Was Out, the protagonist acquires a sense of self-confidence after committing a murder, Joyce Carol Oates' Haunted is on the pros and cons of women's lib, while Lucy Taylor's Going North is on security versus independence. |
Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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Women -- Literary collections.
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Wild women -- Literary collections.
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Added Author |
Hall, Melissa Mia.
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Schwarz, Jill Karla, illustrator.
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ISBN |
0786704152 (cloth) |
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9780786704156 (cloth) |
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