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Ellen has difficulty believing that God will take care of her when her dying mother leaves her with the unloving Mrs. Dunscombe.

Originally published in Sweden in 1936, this novel is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Mia, as she observes her mother's relationship with her handsome but hard-drinking and unfaithful husband. Booklist calls the novel, "a poignant, yet unsettling documentary story that transcends time and place in its depiction of the struggles of the working poor, deserving of a place alongside such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Ole Rolvaag, and John St...

Using biography, autobiography, journals, and letters, Lone Voyagers offers portraits of seven women who were the first of their sex to work as faculty and deans at coeducational universities in the United States and Canada. Most historians of higher education have focused their attention on women's colleges. Here, thanks to the research of seven scholars, are the stories of pathbreakers, pioneers, and models of achievement-stories frequently ...

A guide by members of the Women's Law Project that offers a view of US law as it has affected women's constitutional rights, their position in marriage, their opportunities in employment, and their control over their bodies. It outlines advances and setbacks in the legal status of women.

Major scholars offer new insight on current and emerging trends in women's and peace studies.

Human-rights activist Agosin explores divergent veins of cultural identity in the face of brutality and alienation in a rhapsodic and provocative memoir.

First published in 1912, this novel draws its inspiration directly from Austin's own life and experiences as a talented woman-in the novel, an actress-whose pursuit of a career places her in conflict with the values of a midwestern town. The hero's decision to leave a dull husband to pursue a career, and her rise to fame, are portrayed against the background of the cramping social order of the time.

First published in 1953, this novel is the absorbing story of three siblings from an upper middle-class family in Brooklyn who must make the transition to independent adult life during the depression years 1933 to 1940. Just out of Vassar, Nina rides the sweaty subways to her publishing job in Manhattan before resigning to conventional wife-and motherhood in the suburbs. Kermit, sarcastic, manipulative, and frustrated by his own youth, blister...

Music and Women" provides an unparalleled compendium of information about women's relationship to music and a powerful theoretical model for reconceptualising this relationship. The volume's material is vast in scope - a survey of women's musical production in contemporary tribal cultures from New Guinea to Siberia, and a thorough review of the history of women in music from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century. At once archaeological, a...

Each bilingual volume in "The Defiant Muse" series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Ital...

A unique collection of the best Dutch and Flemish poetry by and about women.

Each bilingual volume in "The Defiant Muse" series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Ital...

Each bilingual volume in "The Defiant Muse" series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Ital...

The first collection of its kind recovers 2, 500 years of Hebrew poetry by women.

Each bilingual volume in "The Defiant Muse" series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Ital...

A unique collection of the best Dutch and Flemish poetry by and about women.

A vital biography for young readers of a courageous Brazilian woman dedicated to saving the Amazon rainforest.

Groundbreaking anthology that explores the intersections of Jewish and LAtin American cultures through the varies styles and perspective of gifted women writers.

This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single volume. Introducing the volume is Marshall's much acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen" from the "New York Times Book Review's" series called "The Making of a Writer." This collection included newly written autobiographi...

A precious, priceless book--from the foreword by Alice Walker "An entire society is limned in the pages of this book.... The power of "Daughter of Earth" lies in the erotic heat which informs every page of the book, erotic in the original Greek sense of life force."--Vivian Gornick, "The Village Voice" Suggested for course use in: U.S. literatureworking-class studies Agnes Smedley (1892 - 1950) also wrote five books about China, including "Por...