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Describes different kinds of families.

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Tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Forced to live in an attic where the walls are covered in a sickly yellow wallpaper, she does what she has to do, she writes. Slowly but surely th...

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B B B This issue of WSQ spotlights educators' efforts to transform the curriculum in community colleges, where women make up the majority of the students and over half of the faculty.

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Born black and female in apartheid-ruled South Africa, Mamphela Ramphele went on to become one of the country's most distinguished leaders. This memoir chronicles her journey, revealing the personal losses that co-existed alongside her political a...

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B B B This issue of WSQB provides ample basis for a renewed interest in the individual character of African literatures and links texts across ethnic and national lines to demonstrate the comparative method as an interprative and pedagogical strat...

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The author recounts her career counseling women college graduates for professional careers, and looks at the obstacles women have faced in pursuing a career.

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Dorothy Bryant's pioneer novel of women's consciousness unfolds as a series of entries in the journal of Ella Price, a suburban California housewife with a reliable husband, a teenaged daughter and a deep sense of discontent, who decides...

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Human-rights activist Agosin explores divergent veins of cultural identity in the face of brutality and alienation in a rhapsodic and provocative memoir.

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Describes Lim's childhood in Malaysia after her mother abandoned her family, and her journey into womanhood as an Asian American with professional, family, and cultural concerns.

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B B B Faithful followers of Dorothy Bryant's work revere this subtle, lyrical, and moving novel, originally published in 1978, as a rare testament to the inner life of a teacher and of an older woman struggling to rediscover her place in a wo...

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B B B A pioneer novel of women's consciousness-raising, this quietly powerful narrative traces the journey of a women rebeliing, searching, and gradually coming to know herself, for the first time in her life, at the age of thirty-five. B B B...

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B B B This extraordinary novel tells the story of two women-Mulberry and Peach-who are really one. Mulberry is a young Chinese-American woman who has fled the turmoil of postwar China to settle in the United States. Unable to forget the terrors sh...

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This volume recounts Alice Cook's endeavours to benefit the lives of working people, especially working women, on four continents. Her pioneering work in union organizing, worker education and equal rights for working women travels across bounderi...

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This vital and engaging collection expands and builds upone Women's Studies Quarterly's groundbreaking 1995 volume, honored with an award from the Council of Editor's of Learned Journals. The poetry, testimony, analysis, history, and theory collec...

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A biography which traces the life of the Burmese political activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

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Rigoberta Menchu, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, was born in a remote and impoverished corner of Guatemala, where her people, the Quiche-Maya, suffered as second-class citizens. Those who tried to fight for their land and their rights often...

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Rigoberta Menchu, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, was born in a remote and impoverished corner of Guatemala, where her people, the Quiche-Maya, suffered as second-class citizens. Those who tried to fight for their land and their rights often...

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In 1934, American writer Rebecca Hourwich Reyher recorded the remarkable life story of Christina Sibiya, the first of sixty-five wives of the uncrowned king of the Zulus, Solomon kaDinuzulu. What Reyher faithfully took down, and then crafted into ...

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One of the first novels to explore Italian American women's experience and an acknowledged contemporary classic of Italian American literature, "Umbertina" tells the richly detailed story of four generations of women. The novel foll...

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This memoir traces Majozo's journey from segregated Kentucky in the 1950s, through an abusive marriage to her professorship and activities in the arts community of Harlem. Throughout, she infuses the events of her life with Biblical symbolism from...

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At the intersection of poetry and politics, race and gender, analysis and feeling lies this telling memoir from Estella Conwill Majozo, first published in hardcover in 1999. Booklist declared, "Majozo's poetic abilities are evident in this me...

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Rosemary Manning's 1962 gem The Chinese Garden is a delicate and finely crafted novel of the discovery -- and betrayal -- of love. In a girls' boarding school in the late 1920s, a world of iron-willed authority, frigid rooms, and forbidd...

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Biography of the nineteenth-century New England woman who was the Quaker daughter of a Nantucket sea captain and who fought for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights.

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Nino Giardello, Sicilian-born New Yorker, has to work his way toward an imperfect resolution of the differences between him and his very American daughter, Gina. The conflict works its way out against a background of everyday transactions, simple ...

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Zoe Wicomb's complex and deeply evocative fiction is among the most distinguished recent works of South African women's literature. It is also among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of "Coloured" citizens in apartheid-...

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A biography of Mamphela Ramphele, a woman who, as a medical doctor, teacher, anthropologist, and advisor to the Mandela government, challenged the racial and gender-based inequities in South Africa.

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A biography of the woman who founded the Self Employed Women's Association, which gives women in India financial and political power.

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Presents a collection of coming of age stories by such authors as Zora Neale Huston, Jo Sinclair, and Kate Chopin.

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Classic memoir of a disabled woman's spiritual growth, called "a testament to the human spirit."

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This volume is a contemporary African classic which tells the story of seven Kenyan women as it traces more than 60 years of turbulent national history. The women share an old-age refuge in Nairobi where they uncover the hidden personal histories ...

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