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Provides coverage on the best-known American women writers spanning from colonial days to the present, including biography, criticism, and bibliography for each; also includes lesser-known writers whose work is found in journals, letters, stories, and even hymns. Entries feature an assessment of the writer's works; basic biography and complete bibliography, as well as comprehensive data on writers' names, including pseudonyms, aliases, parents' names...
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In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular 'room of one's own', prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential.
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Chronicles both the evolution in and the revolutions in women's literature and women's images of women in England, the United States, Canada, Australia, India, Africa, and other English-speaking regions. Includes works by over 150 authors, as well as analysis and biographical information.
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Provides overviews of American women writers who wrote or published their most significant works between 1900 and 1945. Offers biographical information about the author, an analysis of the author's major works, an overview of the critical reception of the author's works, and a bibliography that lists works by the author and works that have been written about the author and her works.
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Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women's Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle-and not so subtle-strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful feminist critique.
15) Spider Woman's granddaughters: traditional tales and contemporary writing by Native American women
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"According to Cherokee legend, Grandmother Spider brought the light of intelligence and experience to the people. Spider Woman's Granddaughters, a superlative collection of traditional tales, biographical writings, and contemporary short stories, brings to the page the light of thought about the past and present lives of Native people. The storytellers represented here - who include Pretty Shield, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Siko, Linda Hogan, Anna...
17) Cost of living
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"What is the road that brought us here? Unemployed truck driver Eddie sits at a bar alone, recalling his final moments with wife, Ani Luz, when a car accident turned the focus of their relationship from divorcing to caregiving. Overworked and underpaid, Jess takes on another job to make ends meet--this time, as a personal caregiver for a wealthy and beautiful graduate student named John, who has cerebral palsy. "Cost of Living" is a play that delves...
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Includes entries on numerous American women poets who published significant works after 1945. Entries include a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the poet's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Included poets come from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, geographical regions, and social classes.
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A passionate book of poetry from New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.In this important collection, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire.
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"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...
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