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Alternate Tables of Contents.
Preface and Acknowledgments.
SECTION I: ENGENDERING LANGUAGE, SILENCE, AND VOICE.
Introduction.
Annotated Bibliography.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).
A Room of One's Own.
bell hooks (1955-).
Talking Back.
Leoba of England and Germany (700?-780).
Letter to Lord Boniface.
Matilda, Queen of England (1080-1118).
Letter to Archbishop Anselm.
Letter to Pope Pascal.
Anne Lock (fl.1556-1590).
from A Meditation of a penitent sinner, upon the 51 psalm.
Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-1573?).
The Author. . .Maketh Her Will and Testament.
from The Manner of Her Will.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).
The Poetess's Hasty Resolution.
The Poetess's Petition.
An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Verses.
Nature's Cook.
from To All Writing Ladies.
Anne Killigrew (1660-1685).
Upon the Saying that My Verses Were Made by Another.
On a Picture Painted by Herself.
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720).
The Introduction.
A Nocturnal Reverie.
Ardelia to Melancholy.
Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia.
The Answer.
Frances Burney (1752-1840).
from The Diary of Frances Burney.
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849).
from Letters for Literary Ladies.
Jane Austen (1775-1817).
Northanger Abbey.
Mary Shelley (1797-1851).
Introduction to Frankenstein.
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855).
Letter from Robert Southey.
Letter to Robert Southey .
Letter to George Henry Lewes.
Emily Brontë (1818-1848).
[Alone I sat; the summer day].
To Imagination.
The Night Wind.
R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida.
[No coward soul is mine].
Stanzas.
George Eliot (1819-1880).
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935).
The Yellow Wallpaper.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937).
A Journey.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946).
from Patriarchal Poetry.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960).
from Dust Tracks on a Road.
Stevie Smith (1902-1971).
My Muse Sits Forlorn.
A Dream of Comparison.
Thoughts about the Person from Porlock.
May Sarton (1912-95).
Journey Toward Poetry.
The Muse as Medusa.
Of the Muse.
Hisaye Yamamoto (1921-).
Seventeen Syllables.
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-).
No Name Woman.
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-).
Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers.
Alice Walker (1944-).
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.
Medbh McGuckian (1950-).
To My Grandmother.
From the Dressing Room.
Turning the Moon into a Verb.
Carol Ann Duffy (1955-).
Standing Female Nude.
Litany.
Mrs. Aesop.
Gcina Mhlophe (1959-).
The Toilet.
Sometimes When It Rains.
The Dancer.
Say No.
Intertextualities.
Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays.
Group Writing and Performance Exercise.
Barbara Christian (1943-).
The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism.
Elaine Showalter (1941-).
Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness.
SECTION II: WRITING BODIES/BODIES WRITING.
Introduction.
Annotated Bibliography.
Hélène Cixous (1937-).
The Laugh of the Medusa.
Nancy Mairs (1943-).
Reading Houses, Writing Lives: The French Connection.
Anonymous.
The Wife's Lament (8th century?).
Anonymous.
Wulf and Eadwacer (8th century?).
Margery Kempe (1373?-1438).
from The Book of Margery Kempe.
Margery Brews Paston (1457?-1495).
Letters to her Valentine/fiance.
Letter to her husband, John Paston.
Elizabeth I (1533-1603).
On Monsieur's Departure.
When I Was Fair and Young.
Mary Wroth (1587?-1653?).
from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689).
The Lucky Chance.
Jane Barker (1652-1727).
A Virgin Life.
Delarivier Manley (1663-1724).
from The New Atalantis.
Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756).
from The Female Spectator.
Harriet Jacobs (1813?-1897).
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894).
Monna Innominata.
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982).
from Ladies Almanack.
To the Dogs.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950),.
from Fatal Interview.
Anne Sexton (1928-1974).
The Abortion.
In Celebration of My Uterus.
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife.
Audre Lorde (1934-1992).
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.
Love Poem.
Chain.
Restoration-A Memorial.
Bharati Mukherjee (1938-).
A Wife's Story.
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1996).
My Man Bovanne.
Sharon Olds (1942-).
That Year.
The Language of the Brag.
The Girl.
Sex Without Love.
Slavenka Drakulic (1949-).
Makeup and Other Crucial Questions.
Joy Harjo (1951-).
Fire.
Deer Ghost.
City of Fire.
Heartshed.
Dionne Brand (1953-).
Madame Alaird's Breasts.
Sandra Cisneros (1955-).
I the Woman.
Love Poem #1.
Jackie Kay (1961-).
Close Shave.
Other Lovers.
Intertextualities.
Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays.
Group Writing and Performance Exercise.
Catherine Gallagher (1945-).
Who Was That Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Comedies of Aphra Behn.
Shari Benstock (1944-).
The Lesbian Other.
SECTION III: RE-THINKING THE MATERNAL.
Introduction.
Annotated Bibliography.
Susan Rubin Suleiman (1939-).
Writing and Motherhood.
Patricia Hill Collins (1948-).
Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing About Motherhood.
Julian of Norwich (1343?-1416?).
from Showing.
Juliana Berners (fl. 1486-?).
from The Book of Hunting.
Dorothy Leigh (?-1616).
from The Mother's Blessing.
Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln (1574?-?).
from The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery.
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672).
The Author to her Book.
Before the Birth of One of her Children.
In Reference to her Children.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762).
Letters to her daughter, Lady Bute.
Mary Barber (1690-1757).
Written for My Son, at His First Putting on Breeches.
The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr. C-.
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806).
The Glow Worm.
Verses Intended to Have Been Prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline, but then Suppressed.
Mary Tighe (1772-1810).
Sonnet Addressed to her Mother.
Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865).
Death of an Infant.
The Last Word of the Dying.
Dream of the Dead.
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835).
Casabianca.
The Hebrew Mother.
Grace Aguilar (1816-1847).
from The Exodus-Laws for the Mothers of Israel.
Kate Chopin (1851-1904).
The Awakening.
Tillie Olsen (1913-).
Tell Me A Riddle.
Judith Wright (1915-).
Stillborn.
Letter.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-).
the mother.
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon.
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).
The Disquieting Muses.
Medusa.
Nick and the Candlestick.
Childless Woman.
Edge.
Clifton, Lucille (1936-).
june 20.
daughters.
sarah's promise.
naomi watches as ruth sleeps.
Bessie Head (1937-1986).
The Village Saint.
Margaret Atwood (1939-).
Giving Birth.
Rosellen Brown (1939-).
Good Housekeeping.
Beth Brant (1941-).
A Long Story.
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-).
A Gift from Somewhere.
Minnie Bruce Pratt (1944-).
Poem for My Sons.
Keri Hulme (1947-).
One Whale, Singing.
Rita Dove (1952-).
Demeter Mourning.
Demeter Waiting.
Mother Love.
Cherrié Moraga (1952-).
La Guera.
For the Color of My Mother.
Kate Daniels (1953-).
Genesis.
Love Pig.
In My Office at Bennington.
After Reading Reznikoff.
Prayer for My Children.
Intertextualities.
Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays.
Creative Writing Exercise.
Oral History Project.
Margit Stange (1949-).
Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening.
Paula Gunn Allen (1939-).
Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism.
SECTION IV: IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE.
Introduction.
Annotated Bibliography.
Michelle Cliff (1946-).
If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire.
Trinh T. Minh-ha (1952-).
Not You/Like You: Postcolonial Women and the Interlocking.
Questions of Identity and Difference.
Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621).
The Doleful Lay of Clorinda.
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645).
from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.
Katherine Philips (1632-1664).
To the Excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia.
Friendship's Mysteries, to my dearest Lucasia.
On Rosania's Apostasy, and Lucasia's Friendship.
Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda, parting at a Fountain.
Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1710?).
from The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed, Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.
Hannah More (1745-1833).
from The Black Slave Trade.
Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784).
On Being Brought from Africa to America.
To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works.
To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth.
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855).
from The Grasmere Journals.
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850).
from Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
258 (There's a certain Slant of Light).
280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain).
303 (The Soul Selects her Own Society).
341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes-).
365 (Dare you See a Soul at the White Heat?).
508 (I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-).
512 (The Soul has Bandaged moments-).
709 (Publication-is the Auction).
754 ((My Life Had Stood-a Loaded Gun).
1072 (Title divine-is mine!).
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935).
I Sit and Sew.
The Proletariat Speaks.
Zitkala-Sä (Gertrude Bonnin) (1876-1938).
The Tree-Bound.
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948).
Trifles.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972).
The Fish.
The Paper Nautilus.
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing.
In Distrust of Merits.
Like a Bulwark.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923).
The Doll's House.
Eudora Welty (1909-).
Why I Live at the P.O..
Doris Lessing (1919-).
An Old Woman and Her Cat.
Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal (1920-1993).
We Are Going.
Anita Desai (1937-).
Surface Textures.
Paula Gunn Allen (1939-).
Molly Brant, Iroquois Matron, Speaks.
Taku Skansken.
Angela Carter (1940-1992).
Wolf-Alice.
Buchi Emecheta (1944-).
from Second Class Citizen.
Jamaica Kincaid (1949-).
Xuela.
Ingrid de Kok (1951-).
Our Sharpeville.
Small Passing.
Transfer.
Intertextualities.
Topics for Discussion, Journals, Essays.
Creative Writing Exercise.
June Jordan (1936-).
The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley.
Joanne Feit Diehl ( 1947-).
Selfish Desires: Dickinson's Poetic Ego and the Rites of Subjectivity.
SECTION V: RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION.
Introduction.
Annotated Bibliography.
Adrienne Rich (1929-).
Notes Toward a Politics of Location.
Diving into the Wreck.
Inscriptions.
One: Comrade.
Two: Movement.
Three: Origins.
Four: History.
Ellen Kuzwayo (1914-).
Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika (God Bless Africa).
Rachel Speght (1597?-1630?).
from A Muzzle for Melastomus.
Mary Astell (1666-1731).
from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies.
Sarah Fyge (1670-1723).
The Liberty.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Mary Hays (1760-1843).
from Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women.
Sojourner Truth (1797?-1883).
Ain't I A Woman?
Keeping the Thing Going While Things are Stirring.
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876).
from Society in America.
Citizenship of People of Colour.
Political Nonexistence of Women.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861).
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point.
A Curse for a Nation.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911).
The Slave Mother.
Free Labor.
An Appeal to My Country Women.
Learning to Read.
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910).
Life in the Iron Mills.
Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970).
Soap and Water.
H.D. (1886-1961).
Eurydice.
Oread.
from The Walls Do Not Fall (I-IV).
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980).
Bubble of Air.
Letter to the Front (VII).
Kathe Kollwitz.
Despisals.
Nadine Gordimer (1923-).
Amnesty.
Janet Frame (1924-).
The Chosen Image.
Maya Angelou (1928-).
Still I Rise.
Toni Morrison (1931-).
Recitatif.
Caryl Churchill (1938-).
Vinegar Tom.
Irena Klepfisz (1941-).
from Bashert.
death camp.
A Few Words in the Mother Tongue.
Eavan Boland (1944-).
Inscriptions.
Writing In a Time of Violence.
Zoë Wicomb (1948-).
Bowl Like Hole.
Carolyn Forché (1950-).
The Colonel.
Message.
Ourselves or Nothing.
The Garden Shukkei-en.
The Testimony of Light.
Louise Erdrich (1954-).
Fleur.
Intertextualities.
Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays.
Group Research Assignment.
Ann Parry (1949?-).
Sexual Exploitation and Freedom: Religion, Race, and Gender in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point.
Nell Irvin Painter (1942-).
"Ar'n't I a Woman?".
Historical Appendix: Old English and Middle English Literature-449-1485.
Historical Appendix: Renaissance and Early Seventeenth-Century Literature-1485-1650.
Historical Appendix: Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Literature-1650-1800.
Historical Appendix: Nineteenth-Century Literature-1800-1900.
Historical Appendix: Modernist Literature-1900-1945.
Historical Appendix: Contemporary Literature-1945-2000.
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