Women Writers Books


Nicole Brossard: Selections (Poets for the Millennium) Best Price: $6.68 "Pleasure," Jennifer Moxley writes in her introduction to this volume, "is the...	Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment Best Price: $21.98 Simone de Beauvoir, whose name is inextricably linked with that of Jean-Paul Sartre, became...	Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West Best Price: $2.74 This anthology is a collection of essays and poems by women who live (or lived) in the American...	Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their...	A Moving Rhetoricke: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England Best Price: $85.37 The complex history of silence provides an important framework for rethinking gender in early...



Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem Best Price: $28.62 I was impressed by the scholarship of this volume. Each essay was rich with fresh angles, new...	Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity: From Madame Butterfly to My American Wife! Best Price: $67.91 From the Eaton sisters' literary works at the previous turn of the century to Gish Jen's...	Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin and The Dispossessed Best Price: $38.80 Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of...	Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed Best Price: $25.87 This book, published some 26 years after Ayn Rand's death, was not intended to be an...	Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Canons and Controversies Best Price: $52.29 .cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt}...



Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Courtesy Books (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) Best Price: $104.74 One of the most important novelists of the early 19th century, Jane Austen (1775-1817) continues...	American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook Best Price: $49.95 Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons and not until recently have...	The Worlding of Jean Rhys: (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) Best Price: $110.95 Where and how does Jean Rhys write herself, her fiction, and her characters into history? To...	Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) Best Price: $45.09 This book offers readers a concise introduction to Atwood's published novels and the central...	"The Inside Light": New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston Best Price: $44.95 "The Inside Light": New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston caps a decade of...

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 Best Price: $135.29 What fiction have British people been reading in the last hundred years? Who are the most...	Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $146.99 These thirteen original essays are the first to focus exclusively on the work, reception, and...	The Feminization of American Culture Best Price: $11.69 One can only imagine the work that has gone into this staggering piece of intellectual history -...	Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America Best Price: $3.69 Letty Cotton Pogrebin was born in 1939 in Jamaica, Queens, New York. She was raised in an...	Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination Best Price: $27.95 Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's...

Women and Writing in Modern China Best Price: $25.00 Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write,...	Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism Best Price: $29.96 This anthology is the first of its kind in breadth and subject matter, and is a welcome addition...	A Bookshelf Of Our Own Best Price: $8.24 This is a really terrific book that synthesizes an enormous amount of information in a lively...	Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers (Southern Literary Studies) Best Price: $13.77	Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place Best Price: $19.95 In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three...

Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing (New Directions in Southern Studies) Best Price: $4.50 Focusing on visual and written images of "the southern woman," Henninger analyzes...	The Bitch is Back: Wicked Women in Literature Best Price: $14.01 Aguiar forces the reader to re-think his/her opinion about the stereotypical bitch. She...	Surrealist Women : An International Anthology (The Surrealist Revolution Series) Best Price: $30.00 Using this book for a Critical Theories class - great reading. Very clear and thought...	The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition Best Price: $11.54 For centuries, women who aspired to write had to enter a largely male literary tradition that...	Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women's Script Best Price: $20.93 "Heroines of Jiangyong" is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives...

Pilgrimage Of Dorothy Richardson Best Price: $37.50 Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson's thirteen-volume opus of autobiographical fiction, follows...	Searching for Jane Austen Best Price: $25.50 Jane Austen's clergyman brother, along with other relatives, seemed to have some misguided...	Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women`s Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989 Best Price: $10.88 In the years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated...	Selected Letters of Rebecca West Best Price: $0.38 since my last review, I have written to Bonnie Scott and she has contacted the publishers to...	The Journals of Mary Butts Best Price: $4.98 British modernist writer Mary Butts (1890-1937), now recognized as one of the most important and...

Woman Version: Theoretical Approaches to West Indian Fiction by Women (Warwick University Caribbean Studies) Investigating what West Indian women writers are saying about themselves and about women in...	Virginia Woolf. Best Price: $43.62	The Musical Woman: An International Perspective Volume II: 1984-1985 Best Price: $107.95 This volume of The Musical Woman continues the long-neglected task of documenting the full scope...	Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World: (Contributions in Women's Studies) Best Price: $69.92 Women in the nineteenth century wrote--prolifically and memorably. The original and provocative...	Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust (Contributions in Women's Studies) Best Price: $1.00 Heinemann is in fact successful in proving that women and men lived through different...

Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature (Contributions in Women's Studies) Best Price: $107.95 This book provides a concise evaluation of the topic of the "venomous woman." As with...	Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) Best Price: $84.95 This important contribution to African American and women's studies analyzes the dramatic...	Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog (Music Reference Collection) Best Price: $86.95 I used this book as one of my sources for a performance-related research project that I've...	A Bibliography of the Manuscripts of Charolette Bronte Best Price: $89.95	A Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers: (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies) Best Price: $95.00 The most complete record of the literary achievement of black American women, this bibliography...

Style and the "Scribbling Women": An Empirical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Contributions in Women's Studies) Best Price: $101.95 Derogation of nineteenth-century women novelists was often the immediate response to their...	Ella Hepworth Dixon: The Story of a Modern Woman (Nineteenth Century Series) Best Price: $86.05 In a career that spanned over forty years, Elia Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately...	A Stranger Within the Gates Best Price: $43.89 Kathleen Constable's ambitious work A Stranger Within the Gates investigates fully...	Swedish Novelist Selma Lagerlof, 1858-1940, and Germany at the Turn of the Century: O Du Stern Ob Meinem Garten (Scandinavian Studies, 12) Best Price: $109.95 This quote from the Novel Prize winner, Nelly Sachs, about Selma Lagerlof (1848-1940) is one...	Bobbed Hair And Bathtub Gin: Library Edition Best Price: $41.55 In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction "Recognition of Mary Shelley's systemic dual focus on public and domestic power as the...	Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (Studies in Gender and History) Best Price: $39.55 Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline...	Women's Writing in English: Early Modern England Best Price: $32.77 In this introduction to the diversity and scope of the writing by women in England from the...	Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, and the English Novel Best Price: $48.75 In eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular,...	Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Best Price: $7.50 This book presents a body of one woman's opinions. This might not sound like much but, given...

Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition Best Price: $17.94 In this first full-length study of male homosexuality in Cather's short stories and novels,...	Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination Best Price: $27.95 Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's...	Women and Writing in Modern China Best Price: $25.00 Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write,...	Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism Best Price: $29.96 This anthology is the first of its kind in breadth and subject matter, and is a welcome addition...	A Bookshelf Of Our Own Best Price: $8.24 This is a really terrific book that synthesizes an enormous amount of information in a lively...

Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers (Southern Literary Studies) Best Price: $13.77	Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place Best Price: $19.95 In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three...	Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing (New Directions in Southern Studies) Best Price: $4.50 Focusing on visual and written images of "the southern woman," Henninger analyzes...	The Bitch is Back: Wicked Women in Literature Best Price: $14.01 Aguiar forces the reader to re-think his/her opinion about the stereotypical bitch. She...	XY: On Masculine Identity Best Price: $12.99 One of the theses upheld in the book is that one is born a woman, but one becomes a man. To...

Willa Cather: Queering America Best Price: $16.45 Lindemann's deft analysis of Cather and her "queer" sensibilities is a...	Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy (Environment Human Condition) Best Price: $95.94 Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that...	Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830 (Women of Letters) Best Price: $13.94 British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and...	Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Àjé in Africana Literature (Blacks in the Diaspora) Best Price: $60.00 "Washington writes supple and thoughtful prose and creatively integrates African and...	Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "the Yellow Wall-Paper" and the History of Its Publication and Reception: A Critical Edition and Documentary Casebook (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) Best Price: $105.00 This slender casebook of an academic search represents the first authoritative text of Charlotte...

Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault (Re-Reading the Canon) Best Price: $26.95 An exploration of the intersection between the work of Michel Foucault and feminist theory,...	Heart Language: Elsie Singmaster and Her Pennsylvania German Writings Best Price: $61.94 At the turn of the twentieth century, American popular literary magazines and journals pulsed...	Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter Best Price: $20.00 This volume brings together twenty-nine pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appeared...	Edith Wharton's Inner Circle (Literary Modernism Series) Best Price: $92.98 When Edith Wharton became friends with Henry James, she joined a group of men who became her...	Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France Best Price: $29.97 Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the...

Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) Best Price: $59.97 Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) was one of the most prominent women in eighteenth-century...	Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990 Best Price: $24.97 The story of southern writing?the Dixie Limited, if you will?runs along an iron path: an...	Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War (Women in Culture and Society Series) Best Price: $69.97 In a study that will radically shift our understanding of Civil War literature, Elizabeth Young...	Bringing Light to Twilight: Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon Best Price: $44.95 The astounding commercial success of Stephenie Meyer?s Twilight series, not just with...	African American Women Writers' Historical Fiction Best Price: $68.07 This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four...

Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story Best Price: $75.96 This book throws new light on Woolfs short stories by showing how they enact...	Alice Munro's Narrative Art Best Price: $64.13 Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short...	African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison Best Price: $88.97 This is a groundbreaking study exploring the significant relationship between western classical...	Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction: From Atwood to Morrison Best Price: $71.22 Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction explores contemporary feminist,...	Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters Best Price: $4.46 "This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."? Publishers...

Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays Best Price: $119.98 This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women...	Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives Best Price: $145.00 The book was delivered quickly, but it was not the edition that was ordered. I could tell by...	Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and George Eliot (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) Best Price: $91.08 Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian...	Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown Best Price: $28.95 As a 62-year-old guy that over the last couple of years has devoured a bunch of Emily Dickinson...	Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schuler Best Price: $27.95 Cultures of Modernism explores how the structure and location of literary communities...

Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood During and After Glasnost Best Price: $8.50 Glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet Union revolutionized Russian society. What effects,...	Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England Best Price: $30.60 This is a good and basic selection of women writers from the period, though I wish the selection...	Truthtellers of the Times: Interviews with Contemporary Women Poets Best Price: $16.94 Truthtellers of the Times brings together the voices of fifteen of our most compelling...	Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character Best Price: $19.63 The unique force of Jane Austen's novels lies in the interplay of character. Nothing much...

1 2 3 4

See also for Women Writers Books

Women's Studies