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Stories of Sicily, immigration, and the lives of Sicilian women in the early 20th century.

These gorgeously illustrated magical tales by classic author George Sand reveal the fantasy, wonder, and enchantment in the natural world.

This issue of WSQ explores the myriad conditions that compel competing groups to work together for political change.

A riveting, true-to-life play and provocative essays examine rape and bullying culture, offering resources for survivors and bystanders.

The heroine of this novel, a rational, rural Maine physician, finds herself courted by a patient whose bones she has patched together after an accident. He is a Boston lawyer who insists that marriage will not end her career. In Doctor Zay, Phelps takes on a subject unusual for 1882: the conflict, as experienced by women, between marriage and career. And as with all of Phelps's novels, this one is both entertaining and consciousness-raising on...

First collection of its kind--twenty scholars explode myriad stereotypes and present the most up-to-date reseach on the status of women in China.

The riveting life story of a South African woman who marries into the Zulu royal family, and after enduring psychological and physical abuses, finds the courage to leave.

The riveting life story of a South African woman who marries into the Zulu royal family, and after enduring psychological and physical abuses, finds the courage to leave.

Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history.

This novel offers a powerful account of family life and labor conflicts, told through the eyes of a tough, resilient Appalachian woman who is, according to Richard Wright, "one of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature." Daughter of the Hills exposes the economic conditions of the working class and the scarcity of opportunities for working-class women, but also tells the story of a loving marriage that endures despite sev...

The rich popular tradition of India's women writers is finally available in this collection of short stories translated from seven of the country's languages. The writers and their heroines reflect the complex mosaic of Indian life-they are old and young, rural and urban, rich and poor. Here we meet Muniyakka, called "walkie-talkie" because she mutters to herself, Shakun, the dollmaker, an exploited artist who needs to feel that others depend ...

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This autobiographical first novel of working-class life by Moa Martinson, the "Agnes Smedley of Sweden, " follows two young women, both victims of sexual abuse, as they become friends and determine to gain for themselves and their children the rights and oppportunities usually denied women, and especially poor women.

Steamy, sensitive, and skillfully written page-turner was the first lesbian pulp--and a 4-million-copy bestseller.

This extra-large double issue of "WSQ" combines two themes, related but distinct: a report on the largest United Nations sponsored gatherings of women in history-at Beijing and Huairou-and a series of national reports on women's studies.

A major literary and scholarly work that transforms perceptions of West African women's history and

Re-launch of the foremost women's studies journal tackles women and sports--a burgeoning field of scholarship.

A dynamic collection of essays from the leading voices in lesbian and gay studies.

Originally published in England in 1934, this searing, timely novel offers and incisive critique of the sexual politics and militarism of England, and the West as a whole, in the post-World War I years. The novel is told from the perspective of a "Genuine Person" who has been hurtled thousands of years back in time from a future society whose citizens are peaceful, androgynous, self-fertilizing, vegetarian, and without national government and ...