Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since the colonial days, American women have traveled, migrated, and relocated, always faced with the challenge of reconstructing their homes for themselves and their families. Women, America, and Movement offers a journey through largely unexplored territory—the experiences of migrating American women...read more

Paula Gunn Allen, Maria Campbell, Mourning Dove, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Emily Pauline Johnson, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sarah Winnemucca (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Unruly Voice explores the literary and journalistic career of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, a turn-of-the-century African American writer who was editor in chief of the Colored American Magazine, though it was not acknowledged on the masthead...read more

Product Description: This text demonstrates the formation and expansion of the role of the New England woman of letters by examining three of the most important women writers between 1620 and 1850: Anne Bradstreet, Mercy Warren, and Margaret Fuller. The transformation of the New England woman of letters into the professional female author occurs concomitantly with a historical progression, which moves from the provincial to the cosmopolitan to the international, from English patronage to American mercantilism...read more

Product Description: Edith Wharton’s contradictory views of women and men– her attitudes toward the feminine and the masculine—reflect a complicated interweaving of family and social environment, historical time, and individual psychology. Studies of Wharton have exhibited the same kind of contradiction, with some seeing her as disparaging men and the masculine and others depicting her as disparaging women and the feminine...read more

Product Description: Until now, the East European canon in American literature has been dominated by male dissident figures such as Brodsky, Milosz, and Kundera. Magdalena Zaborowska challenges that canon by demonstrating the contributions of lesser-known immigrant and expatriate women writers from Poland and Russia: Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Elizabeth Stern, Maria Kuncewicz, and Eva Hoffman...read more

Product Description: This first book-length analysis of the Chicana literary tradition traces the development of Chicana literature from 1848 to the present. Rebolledo discusses major writers' works, important myths and archetypes, and key theoretical issues; she then shows the ways in which Chicana writers explore subjectivity and identity in their writing, the struggle Chicana writers have faced in finding their voices and developing a strong and ethnically tagged language, and the ways they have broken taboos by transgressing into traditionally male spaces...read more

Explores the work of American women writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and the Harlem renaissance writers

Product Description: From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at times contradictory, uses. Centering around her legendary rescue of John Smith from the brink of execution and her subsequent marriage to a white Jamestown colonist, the Pocahontas convention became a source of national debate over such broad issues as miscegenation, racial conflict, and colonial expansion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: "This is the best book on American women poets I have yet seen." —American Literature"... sophisticated and eloquently argued analysis of a female counter-sublime... " —Sandra Gilbert"... strong readings of Dickinson and Moore and...read more

Traces the lives of three American women, Puritan, Victorian, and modern, and compares the themes and philosophy of their poetry

An interpretive analysis of the work of 9 American women novelists exploring the unity of their work