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Book cover for Frances Brooke: Excursion-Pa

Excursion-Pa

Frances Brooke
Paperback - $44.95

One of the few portraits of a woman with literary ambitions.

Book cover for Martine Watson Brownley: Deferrals of Domain

Deferrals of Domain : Contemporary Women Novelists and the State

Martine Watson Brownley
Hardcover - $180.95

Contemporary female novelists tend to portray the relationship between women and the state as profoundly negative, in contrast to various constructions in current feminist theory. Martine Watson Brownley analyzes novels by Margaret Atwood, Paule Mars ...

Book cover for Emily Miller Budick: Engendering Romance

Engendering Romance : Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990

Emily Miller Budick
Hardcover - $132.95

This engrossing book describes how four twentieth-century women writers-Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and Grace Paley-have inherited and adapted the classical tradition of American romance fiction. Emily Miller Budick argues tha ...

Book cover for Urvashi Butalia: Katha

Katha : Short Stories by Indian Women

Urvashi Butalia
Paperback - $23.95

Part of a successful series that showcases women's writing from around the world.

Indian women's stories have been handed down from generation to generation, enriched and embroidered along the way. This collection reflects the vast and complex cul ...

Book cover for Susan Cahill: Women Write

Women Write : A Mosaic of Women's Voices in Fiction, Poetry, Memoir Andessay

Susan Cahill
Paperback - $26.95

From Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf to Toni Morrison and Lorrie Moore, this wide-ranging collection features the most brilliant fiction, poetry, memoir, letters, and essays by women writers with a pitch-perfect ear and a rich understanding of the uni ...

Book cover for Debra A. Castillo: Border Women

Border Women : Writing from La Frontera

Debra A. Castillo
Paperback - $44.95

It is a peculiar fact that U.S.-Mexico border theory is dominated by those who write about, not from, the border. By looking at the work of women writers from both sides of the border, Debra A. Castillo and Maria-Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba open border ...

Book cover for Hero Chalmers: Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689

Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689

Hero Chalmers
Hardcover - $256.95

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues t ...

Book cover for Karen Cherewatuk: Dear Sister

Dear Sister : Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre

Karen Cherewatuk
Paperback - $48.95



Book cover for Edward Chitham: Bronte Family Chronology

Bronte Family Chronology

Edward Chitham
Hardcover - $233.95

The Bronte family is unique. Three sisters, each writing masterpieces, lived in a parsonage in a Yorkshire backwater. Each in her own different way a genius, a verbal conjuror. This book gives a day-by-day account of the lives of the whole family, in ...

Book cover for Deborah Clarke: Driving Women

Driving Women : Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America

Deborah Clarke
Paperback - $54.95

Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a ...

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