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 Bronte (1816-1855). Letter from Robert Southey.
Letter to Robert Southey .
Letter to George Henry Lewes.
Emily Bronte (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 Anzaldua (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. Helene 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.
Cherrie 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-Sa (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.
Zoe Wicomb (1948-). Bowl Like Hole.
Carolyn Forche (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.