| Description |
xv, 302 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu -- The book of the city of ladies / Christine de Pisan -- The Princess of Cleves / Madame de La Fayette -- A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Emma / Jane Austen -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë -- The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Middlemarch / George Eliot -- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- The house of mirth / Edith Wharton -- My Antonia / Willa Cather -- Chéri / Colette -- A room on one's own / Virginia Woolf -- Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell -- Gaudy night / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Huston -- The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- Century of struggle: the women's rights movement in the United States / Eleanor Flexner -- The little disturbances of man / Grace Paley -- The golden notebook / Doris Lessing -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- Wide sargasso sea / Jean Rhys -- Sexual politics / Kate Millett -- Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement / Robin Morgan -- The female Eunuch / Germaine Greer -- Black women in white America: a documentary history / Gerda Lerner -- From reverence to rape: the treatment of women in the movies / Molly Haskell -- Fear of flying / Erica Jong -- Against our will / Susan Brownmiller -- Looking for Mr. Goodbar / Judith Rossner -- The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Of woman born / Adrienne Rich -- The women's room / Marilyn French -- Silences / Tillie Olsen -- Women, race & class / Angela Davis -- The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- The shared / Cynthia Ozick -- Backlash / Susan Faludi -- The beauty myth / Naomi Wolf -- Bridget Jones's diary / Helen Fielding -- The bitch in the house / Cathi Hanauer. |
| Subject |
Women in literature.
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| ISBN |
0806526149 |
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