Maria Davis is visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Oxford College of Emory University.

A house, seldom a home for women —the more luxurious or impoverished, the more imprisoning, the more beautifully designed, the more objectifying, the more socially abiding, the more privately constraining— is the focus of this useful introduction to feminist and comparative studies covering a wide range of works by authors from an equally wide range of countries.

• Chapter 1: The House as a Symbol of Women's Economic Freedom: The House on Mango Street and A Room of One's Own Chapter 2: The House and Female Mental Entrapment: The Yellow Wallpaper and Wide Sargasso Sea Chapter 3: The House as a Metaphor for Social Performance: The House of Mirth and The Awakening Chapter 4: The House as a Symbol of Female Physical Entrapment: A Doll House and La casa de Bernarda Alba Chapter 5: The House as a Magical Space: The House of the Spirits and Like Water for Chocolate Chapter 6: The House as a Metaphor of Social and Racial Integration: Brown Girl, Brownstones and A Raisin in the Sun

Maria Davis is visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Oxford College of Emory University.

A house, seldom a home for women —the more luxurious or impoverished, the more imprisoning, the more beautifully designed, the more objectifying, the more socially abiding, the more privately constraining— is the focus of this useful introduction to feminist and comparative studies covering a wide range of works by authors from an equally wide range of countries.

• Chapter 1: The House as a Symbol of Women's Economic Freedom: The House on Mango Street and A Room of One's Own Chapter 2: The House and Female Mental Entrapment: The Yellow Wallpaper and Wide Sargasso Sea Chapter 3: The House as a Metaphor for Social Performance: The House of Mirth and The Awakening Chapter 4: The House as a Symbol of Female Physical Entrapment: A Doll House and La casa de Bernarda Alba Chapter 5: The House as a Magical Space: The House of the Spirits and Like Water for Chocolate Chapter 6: The House as a Metaphor of Social and Racial Integration: Brown Girl, Brownstones and A Raisin in the Sun

Maria Davis is visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Oxford College of Emory University.

A house, seldom a home for women —the more luxurious or impoverished, the more imprisoning, the more beautifully designed, the more objectifying, the more socially abiding, the more privately constraining— is the focus of this useful introduction to feminist and comparative studies covering a wide range of works by authors from an equally wide range of countries.

• Chapter 1: The House as a Symbol of Women's Economic Freedom: The House on Mango Street and A Room of One's Own Chapter 2: The House and Female Mental Entrapment: The Yellow Wallpaper and Wide Sargasso Sea Chapter 3: The House as a Metaphor for Social Performance: The House of Mirth and The Awakening Chapter 4: The House as a Symbol of Female Physical Entrapment: A Doll House and La casa de Bernarda Alba Chapter 5: The House as a Magical Space: The House of the Spirits and Like Water for Chocolate Chapter 6: The House as a Metaphor of Social and Racial Integration: Brown Girl, Brownstones and A Raisin in the Sun