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Wild women

Title: Wild women / compiled by Melissa Mia Hall ; illustrations by Jill Karla Schwarz.
Publication: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1997.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PS509.W6 W55 1997	Off-site

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Description

x, 373 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

In this collection of acclaimed contemporary female writers akin to Women Who Run with the Wolves, the independent, unconventional woman is glorified as an icon of liberation by both women and men. Margaret Atwood's Half-Hanged Mary offers a verse tribute to a woman wrongly tried for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. Joyce Carol Oates's Haunted describes the bond between two young girls, one black, one white, in a small southern town.
Alice Walker's A Woman Is Not a Potted Plant praises the woman unfettered by civilization, roaming free in nature.

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Contents

Half-Hanged Mary / Margaret Atwood -- Going North / Lucy Taylor -- How I Got To Be Queen / Greg Sarris -- Haunted / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Dancer / Patricia Preciado Martin -- The Girl with the Hungry Eyes / Fritz Leiber -- While She Was Out / Edward Bryant -- The Merry Widow / Kate Wilhelm -- Esther Goes on the Offensive / Bebe Moore Campbell -- This is a Story / Jane Yolen -- Over the Pass / Susan Mary Malone -- Cold Turkey / Carole Nelson Douglas -- Winter's Tale / Connie Willis -- A Woman is Not a Potted Plant / Alice Walker -- Is Anybody Listening? / Dawn Raffel -- Incident On and Off a Mountain Road / Joe R. Lansdale -- Wolfer / Gene Wolfe -- Oral / Richard Christian Matheson -- Straw Dogs / Taeko Tomioka -- Rope-Bound / John A. Day -- Women's Stories / Jane Yolen -- How-to Books & Other Absurdities / Erica Jong -- Heat / Nancy Holder -- The Wife's Story / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Bits and Pieces / Lisa Tuttle -- Rabbit Hole / Jane Yolen --
Iphigenia / Nancy A. Collins -- Werewomen / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Talking to the Dead / Sylvia Watanabe -- Lost Girls / Pat Cadigan -- Psychofemmes / Melissa Mia Hall -- The Wolf's Eyelash / Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

ISBN

0786704152 (cloth)

LCCN

97009874

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries