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Tables of Contents for The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
4
PART I: Short Fiction
7
266
Tom's Husband
9
12
Sarah Orne Jewett
Tony's Wife
21
6
Alice Ruth Moore Dunba-Nelson
The Revolt of ``Mother''
27
14
Mary Wilkins Freeman
The Yellow Wall-Paper
41
15
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
A male Magdalene from Samantha vs. Josiah
56
7
Maietta Holley
A Pair of Silk Stockings
63
5
Kate Chopin
The Other Two
68
15
Edith Wharton
Seventeen Syllables
83
12
Hisaye Yamamoto
Freedom
95
5
Nella Larsen
Sweat
100
11
Zora Neale
O Yes
111
15
Tillie Olsen
A late Encounter With the Enemy
126
9
Flannery O'Connor
A Worn Path
135
8
Eudora Walty
The Shawl
143
5
Cynthia Ozick
Extenuating Circumstances
148
6
Joyce Carol Oates
Miss Clairol
154
5
Helena Maria Viramontes
Recitatif
159
17
Toni Morrison
In the American Society
176
14
Gish Jen
May's Lion
190
7
Ursula K. Le Guin
Life in the Iron-Mills
197
32
Rebecca Harding Davis
Old Mrs. Harris
229
44
Willa Cather
PART II: Poetry
273
38
Poetry from the Beginning
274
17
To My Dear and Loving Husband
275
1
Anne Bradstreet
The Flesh and the Spirit
276
3
On Imagination
279
1
Phillis Wheatley
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
280
1
Emily Dickinson
This is My Letter to the World
281
1
My Life had Stood---A Loaded Gun
281
1
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
282
1
Decade
283
1
Amy Lowell
The Poem as Mask
283
1
Muriel Rukeyser
Lineage
284
1
Margaret Walker
Religion, from Ulysses
285
1
Gwendolyn Brooks
In an Iridescent Time
286
1
Ruth Stone
Woman Me
286
1
Maya Angelou
Lady Lazarus
287
4
Sylvia Plath
Contemporary Poetry
291
20
Diving into the Wreck
292
2
Adrienne Rich
When I was Growing Up
294
2
Nellie Wong
The Thirty Eighth Year
296
2
Lucille Clifton
Song for a Thin Sister
298
1
Audre Lorde
What the Gypsy Said to her Children
299
1
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Daystar
300
1
Rita Dove
A History of Costume
301
4
Michelle Cliff
Suicide Note
305
2
Janice Mirikitani
Remember
307
1
Joy Harjo
As Children Together
308
3
Carolyn Forche
PART III: Public Lives
311
68
Women and the Nation
312
18
On the Equality of the Sexes
313
3
Judith Sargent Murray
A Woman at Forty, from Women in the Nineteenth Century
316
5
Margaret Fuller
The Working-Girls of New York, from Folly As It Flies
321
2
Fanny Fern
The Case Stated
323
7
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Struggle for Understanding
330
21
The Higher Education of Women
331
6
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
The Coyote-Spirit and the Weaving Woman
337
5
Mary Hunter Austin
Women are Hungry
342
9
Meridel Le Sueur
From the Personal to the Political
351
28
More than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island
352
4
Mary Gordon
Longing to Die of Old Age
356
2
Alice Walker
Last Words on Vietnam, 1987
358
7
Martha Gellhorn
Amazons in Appalachia
365
7
Marilou Awiakta
If Men Could Menstruate
372
3
Gloria Steinem
Why I Want a Wife
375
2
Judy Syfers
The Good Guys
377
2
Anna Quindlen
PART IV: Acting Out
379
110
Plays
380
61
Overtones
381
12
Alice Gerstenberg
Trifles: A Play in One Act
393
14
Susan Glaspell
Bitter Cane
407
34
Genny Lim
Speeches and Performance Pieces
441
16
Ain't I a Woman?
441
2
Sojourner Truth
Men in Your Life
443
4
Alice Childress
United States
447
5
Laurie Anderson
Roslyn Malamud: The Coup, from Fires in the Mirror
452
5
Anna Deavere Smith
Riuals and Ceremonies
457
32
Native American Ritual
458
8
Kopis'Taya (A Gathering of Sprits)
466
2
Paula Gunn Allen
Naming Power
468
2
Wendy Rose
The Foot-Washing
470
1
George Ella Lyon
from The Women of Brewster Place
471
3
Gloria Naylor
The Sixth Work: Rituals for the Extended Family, from Jambalaya
474
5
Luisah Teish
The Ceremonies of Community, from The Telling
479
10
E. M. Broner
PART V: Private Lives
489
62
The Republic of Women's Letters
490
8
To John Adams
491
1
Abigail Adams
Letter to the Editors of Freedom's Journal
492
1
Matilda
Letter XV: Man Equally Guilty with woman in the Fall
493
5
Sarah Moore Grimke
Women in the Nineteenth Century
498
14
Diary
499
3
Louisa May Alcott
Afternoon in the Woods, from Rural Hours
502
2
Susan Fenimore Cooper
The Trials of Girlhood, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
504
3
Harriet Ann Jacobs
To John Brown
507
1
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
To Louisa Picquet
508
1
Elizabeth Ramsey
Diary
509
3
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Turning the Century
512
24
To Liane de Pougy
513
1
Natalie Barney
To Ben Reitman
514
1
Emma Goldman
The School Days of an Indian Girl
514
9
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian
523
10
Sui Sin Far
One Farmer's Wife
533
3
Anonymous
Modern Voices
536
15
To Anita Pollitzer
537
2
Georgia O'Keeffe
Names, from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
539
7
Mary McCathy
Storyteller
546
1
Leslie Marmon Silko
To Gabriela, A Young Writer
547
4
Pat Mora
PART VI: Bodily Pleasures
551
32
Recipes
552
16
The Last Return from the Sea, from The Captain's Lady's Cookbook
553
1
Bass for Picasso, from The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
554
2
Alice B. Toklas
Sunday Revival Dinner, from the Taste of Country Cooking
556
7
Edna Lewis
Los Dias De Los Muertos, from Food From My Heart
563
5
Zarela Martinez
Erotica
568
15
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!
569
1
Emily Dickinson
Come Slowly---Eden!
569
1
Volcanoes Be in Sicily
570
1
The Storm, A Sequal to ``The 'Cadian Ball''
570
5
Kate Chopin
Lifting Belly
575
2
Gertrude Stein
I Want to Die While You Love Me
577
1
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Sea Rose
577
1
H. D.
Mandra, II, from Little Birds
578
2
Anais Nin
Sappho's Reply
580
1
Rita Mae Brown
She Didn't Think We Were Married
581
1
Olga Broumas
Jane Miller
Fifteen, from Autumn Sequence
581
2
Jan Freeman
Acknowledgments
583
8
Topical Listing of Contents
591
4
Index
595