| Description |
xxxi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Women's lives, women's work
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Women's lives, women's work.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
[pt.] 1. Oppressive work : whose dog am I? -- A Good day's work / Naomi Replansky -- The bound girl / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Amelia / Charles Reznikoff -- America and I / Anzia Yezierska -- A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather -- Waitress / Ranice Henderson Crosby -- Poem for Aretha / Nikki Giovanni -- [pt.] 2. Satisfying work : sturdiness and singing -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Tom's husband / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The whole pot / Alice Lee Marriott -- Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston -- The only people / Judith Higgins -- Raymond's run / Toni Cade Bambara -- Medicine man / Rikki Lights -- The bowl / Barbara Smith -- Hats / Jean Pedrick -- [pt.] 3. Family work : and when is there time -- Farm wife / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Midsummer / Patricia Cumming -- Alli por la calle San Luis / Carmen Tafolla -- The Indian trader / Alice Lee Marriott -- The butcher / Wilma Shore -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- They call me Mummy / Sheila Ballantyne -- An attempt at reform / August Strindberg -- The Famous Writers School opens its arms in the next best thing to welcome / Rosellen Brown -- [pt.] 4. Transforming work : moment of assertion -- Notes from a slave ship / Edward Field -- Girl held without bail / Margaret Walker -- Women / Alice Walker -- The bedquilt / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- The Triangle fire / Sholem Asch -- I was marching / Meridel le Sueur -- The peace walk / Sue Davidson -- Phantasia for Elvira Shateyev / Adrienne Rich -- To be of use / Marge Piercy. |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Literary collections.
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Women -- Employment. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Work -- Literary collections.
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Work. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Hoffman, Nancy.
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Howe, Florence.
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Hedges, Elaine.
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| ISBN |
0070204314 |
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