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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Offering readers key women's writings from the eighth century to the present, this global and multicultural anthology includes selections written in English by women from Great Britain and the U.S. as well as Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Croatia, Ghana, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa.Organized thematically, the anthology emphasizes five important topics for women writers finding a voice, writing the body, rethinking the maternal, identity and difference, and resistance and transformation. Pivotal works of feminist theory by Woolf, Cixous, Showalter, hooks, Trinh, and others are also included.For those interested in women's literature. ... Read more

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Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 is unique in providing an authoritative, up-to-date overview of eighteenth-century women's writing and its contexts. The contributors are well-known feminist literary critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing. They discuss the construction of women, and women's writing across a wide range of genres, including essays on ideas of femininity, women and race, changing family structures, women and the law, and women as publishers and as readers. This book will be an invaluable resource both for students and experts in the field. ... Read more

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Encompassing Pulitzer Prize winners Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Rita Dove, national icons Maya Angelou and Nikki African Giovanni, and prominent cult figures Zora Neale Hurston and Octavia Butler, African American women's literature is the one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today. This is the first comprehensive anthology of African American women's literature. This is the only book that covers all historical periods, from the 18th century up through the early years of the 21st century; and all genres: from poems, essays, journal entries, and short stories to novels and black feminist criticism. An exciting and interested reader for anyone who wants a comprehensive package of African-American women's writings.

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About Time!
This book is certainly a first of its kind. The number of authors included in this anthology is unprecedented, covering the literature of slavery all the way to the 21st-century. Substantively, it is very engaging and beautifully produced. I found the map to be very useful, as were the well-crafted bibliographies. ... Read more

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Focusing on 20th century works, this manageable, chronological anthology takes an objective approach to women's literature, letting readers experience each selection without any preconceptions or opening interpretations.Coverage spans from turn-of-the-century literature, through modernism and the pre-Second World War era, to post-war, contemporary literature and beyond, drawing selections from each major genre.For those interested in women's literature/women's studies; feminism in literature; contemporary literature; and comparative literature. ... Read more

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Great deal!
Needed this book for a course and it arrived on time and in excellent condition.Thanks!

So many choices, so little time
A reader's first problem will be deciding where to begin the adventure.The anthology includes poems, short stories, plays and essays from a diverse array of writers. Since the authors are arranged in chronologicalorder, readers can easily leap from one time period to another. Part of thereading adventure comes from the juxtaposition of serendipitous leapsthrough thetime periods and literary genres. The movementfrom cultureto culture adds to the richness of the experience.

This anthologyprovides enjoyable romps for many sunny days as well as thoughtfulreflections for cloudy days.The collection of women writing about women'slivesinforms, entertains and encourages. What a good book to have lyingaround to be picked up whenever one wants to visit another woman to see howlife is going for her. The selections are timeless and the combinationsendless.Even after someone has read the book cover to cover, one canrereadpieces and make new connections.Those who take the time toexplore the lives of others will definitely have enriched their lifetimes.What a joy:This rich delicacy is calory free. It's also Emily Dickinsonfree and that omissiondispleases me; and explains why I gave the bookonly 4 stars. ... Read more

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Images of Women in Literature, Fifth Edition, is an anthology of literature—short fiction, poetry, and drama—by a broad range of female and male writers depicting the roles of women in literature.

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Great book.Great Item.
This book was in excellent condition and I am enjoying reading the different short stories. ... Read more

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Long the standard teaching anthology, thelandmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women’s writing in English.Now, themuch-anticipated Third Edition responds to thewealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all)whose diverse works span six centuries.  A moreflexible two-volume format and a versatile newcompanion reader make the Third Edition an evenbetter teaching tool.

"As diversity itself has shaped the evolution of feminist criticism,from its early preoccupation with women'sshared experiences to its more recent absorption in the complex issues and assumptions informingEnglish-language texts by women writers ofdiverse geographical, cultural, racial, sexual,religious, and class origins and influences, sodiversity has shaped the revisions of thisanthology." —From the Preface ... Read more

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Check your pages
Make sure if you buy this book from amazon that all the pages are in the book. I'm missing pages 577-608!!!!!!!

Great
This book is a great examination of early women's literature in English. I have learned a lot from it so far and I look forward to picking it up again when I have the time. I'm a university English student, so that's high praise.

Just What I Needed
Bought this book for class, exactly what I needed. Way cheaper on here than at the school bookstore.

Review by a Guy
Had to take a diversity course in college, and chose Women's lit. It's not my passion, but it was fascinating to discover an entire literary tradition that nobody had told me anything about in high school. If you think Women's literature is just Woolf, the Brontes, and Frankenstein, this book will quickly change your mind. Not every story is a gem, nor is every poem a vision, but the wide range of voices guarantees you'll discover or rediscover a favorite author. Plus, this book includes the only decent thing Toni Morrison has ever written, a musing on memory called "Recitatif". It alone is worth the price of admission.

A must for any Women's Studies student
I was made to buy this for an English class, but I am sure glad that I did.The overview of literature written by women is exhaustive, but this book is a must have for any student of Women and literature, as well as Women's Studies majors or minors. ... Read more

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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter.

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Long the standard teaching anthology, thelandmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women’s writing in English.Now, themuch-anticipated Third Edition responds to thewealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all)whose diverse works span six centuries. A moreflexible two-volume format and a versatile newcompanion reader make the Third Edition an evenbetter teaching tool.

"As diversity itself has shaped the evolution of feminist criticism,from its early preoccupation with women'sshared experiences to its more recent absorption in the complex issues and assumptions informingEnglish-language texts by women writers ofdiverse geographical, cultural, racial, sexual,religious, and class origins and influences, sodiversity has shaped the revisions of thisanthology." —From the Preface ... Read more

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Amazon fails again
While the text book is sound and an excellent (and required) addition to my Women's Lit course, I carefully perused each and every title until I saw the exact one required by my class. I chose it, ordered it. Almost a full month later, it arrives, and turns out to be THE WRONG [...] BOOK. This marks a special event in online purchasing for me: Amazon.com has now successfully FAILED with every single [...] order I have made to deliver either a) What I ordered, B) in a timely manner, and/or C) a quality product. [...]you, Amazon.com. You get no more chances from me.

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Book was still in package....so it was in great condition. It was delivered in an adequate time as well

This is educational and interesting.
This book was required for my college course.Even so, it is surprisingly worth reading for those interested in women authors and their works. It has a sampling of most eras, including modern.It also includes a mini-bio of each author. It includes excerpts from novels, short stories, essays, speeches, and poems.

Great service, fast delivery
I ordered a set of books and the price was great and really fast delivery.Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Boxed set, Volumes 1 and 2)

VERY Happy!
Was shipped insanely fast, I think maybe a day? But anyway, just in time for the semester to start on Monday! Thanks again Amazon! ... Read more

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Many of America's foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female:Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eduora Welty, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith, to name several.Designating a writer as "southern" if her work reflects the region's grip on life, Mary Louise Weaks and Carolyn Perry have produced an invaluable guide to the richly diverse and enduring tradition of southern women's literature.Their comprehensive history-the first of its kind in a relatively young field-extends from the pioneer woman to the career woman, embracing black and white, poor and privileged, urban and Appalachian perspectives and experiences.

The History of Southern Women's Literature allows readers both to explore individual authors and to follow the developing arc of various genres across time.Conduct books and slave narratives;Civil War diaries and letters; the antebellum, postbellum, and modern novel; autobiography and memoirs; poetry; magazine and newspaper writing-these and more receive close attention.Over seventy contributors are represented here and their essays discuss a wealth of women's issues from four centuries: race, urbanization, and feminism; the myth of southern womanhood; preset images and assigned social roles-from the belle to the mammy-and real life behind the façade of meeting others' expectations; poverty and the labor movement; responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin and the influence of Gone with the Wind.

The history of southern women's literature tells, ultimately, the story of the search for freedom within an "insidious tradition," to quote Ellen Glasgow.This teeming volume validates the deep contributions and pleasures of an impressive body of writing and marks a major achievement in women's and literary studies. ... Read more

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The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature. ... Read more

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Superb...
I had the pleasure of being professor Ahl's student for an entire year studying both Greek history and a great deal of ancient and modern tragedy under him including Trojan Women. Unlike other translators , Ahl makes painstaking efforts to capture not only the meaning of the original text but also the "feel" of the text which oftentimes includes a great deal of wordplay and many other subtleties that translators are unable or unwilling to capture. Given that, Trojan Women by Seneca, which is in some ways a"remake" of Euripides Trojan Women and in others a highly original masterpiece, is one of the best tragedies of all time and is recommended because of its timeless themes of life,death, war and the treatment of the conquered by the conquerors that it addresses. I highly recommend this play and all other translations by professor Ahl. ... Read more

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In recent decades the number of American girls and women committed to competitive sports has grown dramatically. Written by a wide range of authors, including Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, and Ellen Gilchrist, this wonderful collection of stories, poems, and novel excerpts deals with all the aspects of women's competitive sports.Amazon.com Review
Imagine an all-star team of writers such as Adrienne Rich,Fannie Hurst, Marge Piercy, Betty Bao Lord, Maxine Kumin, TessGallagher, and Laurie Colwin. Now imagine them casting theirconsiderable literary prowess into the sporting ring. These writersform the core of an impressive roster in this long-overdueanthology. Filled with passion and insight, these poems, stories, andexcerpts play all fields and beautifully explore and explain thedifferent layers of exuberance and anguish unique to the sportingexperience of women. These are no simple tales of victory, but ratherfinely wrought musings on the genuine possibilities that sports andcompetition hold out to the human spirit. ... Read more

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The funniest, saddest, most moving collection of sportswrite
I recently selected this book for use in a new course I am teaching on sportswriting at the University of California, San Diego. When I went searching for a good example of sportswriting to counterbalance the manyofferings by men, I was not encourage by the very small number of titles bywomen. This book astonished me in its variety and quality of contributions,AND it is fiction, which makes it all the more exiciting to read. Verypersonal, very gritty, very real. Read this book! ... Read more

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Inspired by the folklorist Yanagita Kunio's groundbreaking work of the early 1930s, Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way explores the ways in which fictional and usually scandalous stories of the Heian women authors Izumi Shikibu, Ono no Komachi, Murasaki Shikibu, and Sei Shônagon were employed in the competitive preaching and fund-raising of late-Heian and medieval Japan. The book draws upon a broad range of medieval textual and pictorial sources to describe the diverse and heretofore little-studied roles of itinerant and temple-based preacher-entertainers in the formation and dissemination of medieval literary culture. By plumbing the medieval roots of Heian women poets' contemporary fame, Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way illuminates a forgotten world of doctrinal and institutional rivalry, sectarian struggle, and passionately articulated belief, revealing the processes by which Izumi Shikibu and her peers came to be celebrated as the national cultural icons that they are today. Both meticulously researched and beautifully written - all in all, a fantastic read! ... Read more

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Masterful review of concept of "women's literature" in Japan
A magnificent survey and original interpretation of the concept of "women's literature" in modern Japan, demonstrating its significance in the life and work of twentieth-century Japan's mostimportant woman writer, Hayashi Fumiko (1903-51).

Utilizing an impressivearray of Japanese sources, Ericson interprets the crystallization in the1920s of the category "women's literature" by considering bothliterary aesthetics and the social dynamics of authorship.

Twotranslations of Hayashi's work -- Diary of a Vagabond, and Narcissus --demonstrates its originality and power, rooted in the clarity and immediacywith which Hayashi is able to convey the humanity of those occupying theunderside of Japanese society. ... Read more

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Historical fascination with women of the Bible has contributed a great wealth of artistic images, literature, legends, fables, and religious poetry to Western traditions. From heroic figures such as Judith and Esther to deep friends like Ruth and Naomi, the Bible presents a plenitude of women whose deeds and desires have inspired Western art and culture for more than two thousand years.

Culled from a larger, more expensive volume by the same authors first published by Eerdmans in 1994, this beautiful volume focuses on fifteen biblical characters and gloriously presents not only their stories but also more than 200 art-historical images of them, along with searching commentary by the late theologian Dorothee Soelle and discussion of their post-biblical legacies in art and literature by historian Joe Kirchberger.

The figures discussed include Eve and Lilith, Sarah and Hagar, Tamar, Ruth and Naomi, Abigail, Judith, Esther, the woman who anointed Jesus, Mary of Magdala, Mary and Martha, and many more. This is a beautiful gift book with real substance. ... Read more

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An especially appropriate selection as a community library "Memorial Fund" acquisition.
Benefitting from the professional art direction of Anne-Marie Schniper and an informative Foreword by herbert Haag, "Great Women Of The Bible In Art And Literature" by Dorothee Soelle (Professor of Theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York City) and historian Joe H. Kirchberger, offers and showcases biographical synopsis of the stories of the eleven women named in the bible, and one referred to only as the 'Woman with the Ointment', as represented in literature and art over the centuries. The women include Eve and Lilith (Adam's first wife referred to in Judaic commentaries on the Torah), Sara and Hagar, Tamar, Ruth the Moabit, Abigail, Judith, Esther, Mary and Martha, and Mary of Magdala. Enhanced with a bibliography, and a listing of literary sources, "Great Women Of The Bible In Art And Literature" offers an informed and informative text based upon biblical and non-biblical sources, along with superb paintings and visual images - perhaps the most unusual of which is a depiction of Lilith taken from a Persian amulet. A simply beautiful book from beginning to end, "Great Women Of The Bible In Art And Literature" is especially recommended for personal, church, seminary, and academic library collections - and would make an especially appropriate selection as a community library "Memorial Fund" acquisition. ... Read more

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These pages capture a thousand years of medieval women's visionary writing, from late antiquity to the 15th century. Written by hermits, recluses, wives, mothers, wandering teachers, founders of religious communities, and reformers, the selections reveal how medieval women felt about their lives, the kind of education they received, how they perceived the religion of their time, and why ascetic life attracted them. ... Read more

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Perfect Introduction to Medieval Women's Visionary Writings
Petroff's compilation of visionary writings is wonderful in its breath both in terms of time and women. It stretches from St. Perpetua to Mary of Nijmeghen. In addition to beautiful selections of visionary literature, Petroff provides intelligent introductions which enable a novice reader such as myself to place the women writers in their contexts.

A classic for both content and commentary
This book is THE starting place for those seeking to understand the variety of women's religious writings and experiences in the medieval west.The chosen texts are very good themselves, and Petroff's commentary is very helpful to modern readers seeking to understand a sometimes alien discourse.I use this as a textbook in religious studies and women's history courses for university freshmen and sophomores and get consistently good comments from my students about the book. ... Read more

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Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Education in Cairo, she was summarily dismissed from her post in 1972 for her political writing and activities. In 1981 she was imprisoned by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State" and was not released until after his assassination.
Memoirs from the Women's Prison offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and fascinating insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamic revivalists, forged alliances to demand better conditions and to maintain their sanity in the confines of their cramped cell.
Saadawi's haunting prose makes Memoirs an important work of twentieth-century literature. Recognized as a classic of prison writing, it touches all who are concerned with political oppression, intellectual freedom, and personal dignity. ... Read more

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I got the book sooner than I expected, and it was in great condition. I was very satisfied with this purchase.

Moving and Powerful
Dr. Saadawi relates her prison experience in piercing detail, from the putrid infestations to the commentary on the various women with which she shares her living space.But more importantly, readers see inside her mind just how she was able to get through nearly a month of torturous living conditions and the violent separation with her family and home.Dr. Saadawi gives us an insight into what goes through prisoners minds when they deal with an infinite amount of prison time ahead of them with little chance of release.Her courage and determination in living while still in prison and standing up to the ridiculous circumstances surrounding her imprisonment are brought forth with an emotion one can not help but enjoy.

Dr. Sadawi does it again
Nawal El Saddawi is one of the most prolific and poignant writers of our time.Both her fiction and non-fiction writing is beautiful and insperational.I highly recomend this book.

Disappointment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Although I like Sadawi's fiesty, rebellious spirit, I must say that I was HIGHLY disappointed in her work! I rarely come across a book that I don't finish and to tell you the truth, she made me return the book. Her bland and simplistic writing style didn't go well with me. At times, this book even put me to sleep. Anyway, the real significant drawback of this book is that it is written in an extremely narraw perspective! The whole book is about her and her memoirs, you don't even know what the other person is thinking. Hence, if you ask me I would say: SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED CASH!!!

A Beautiful Story of Struggle and Independence
This is one of my favorite books of all time.I had to read it for a class in college, and I will be the first to admit that I was turned off by the cover and the bland title.I'm glad I was forced to give this book achance.It's an amazing true story of a female doctor in Cairo who istaken away to a prison for her outspoken ideas.The governemnt takes herfrom her home and forces her to live with several other women with verydiffernt backgrounds from one another.However, the situation causesSadaawi to become somewhat of a "leader," and the women form astrong and unique friendship.It's an amazing and beautiful book and alsoa fast read - don't pass this up. ... Read more