| Description |
x, 339 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"The thirty-six stories in this anthology, all by women authors, center around female characters who follow their own paths and tell the powers-that-be what they don't want to hear, women who stand up for themselves, for each other, for their beliefs"--Back cover. |
| Contents |
Part I. Resistance. Ironing / Sarah Marian Seltzer -- Diversion / Joanna Lesher -- Your giraffe is burning / E.A. Fow -- Break / Gina Ochsner -- The high priestess never marries / Sharanya Manivannan -- Accident / Tracy Gold -- Grave to cradle / Catherine Haustein -- Stony limits / Enid Shomer -- Our Lady of the Artichokes / Katherine Vaz -- Part II. Solidarity. The last man on Earth / Karen Stromberg -- Bringing down the clouds / Kathleen Alcalá -- Noelia and Amparo / Glendaliz Camacho -- Revenge on a plate / Dawn Knox -- The conversion of Sister Terence / Liz Dougherty Dolan -- A big girl has a good time with small men / Heather Fowler -- Part III. Entanglements. Silted castle walls / Megan Rahija Bush -- Not a through street / Judy Juanita -- Husband hunting / SJ Sindu -- Physics / Kim Chinquee -- Discretion / Jennifer Baker -- Runaway truck ramp / Soniah Kamal -- The star of the north / Cathleen Calbert -- And the wisdom to know the difference / Hilary Zaid -- Game, set, match / Janis Butler Holm -- Part IV. Mother figures. Yatri / Jay O'Shea -- How to save a child from choking / Maureen O'Leary -- Dear Juana of God / Beth Alvarado -- Away / Ellie Knightsbridge -- Miss Emily Gray / Theodora Goss -- Part V. Transformation. Heart like a drum / Alison Newall -- What do you call a monster? / Laura Hart -- Accessories extra ; Reading maps / Elizabeth Kerlikowske -- The mirror / Teresa Milbrodt -- Test group 4 / SJ Sindu -- Devil take the hindmost / Rosalie Morales Kearns. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors.
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English literature -- Women authors.
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Women -- Fiction.
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American literature -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807271
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English literature -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00912218
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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| Added Author |
Kearns, Rosalie Morales, editor.
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| ISBN |
0991355555 (paperback) |
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9780991355556 (paperback) |
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