| Description |
333 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Mirimiri / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Marka / Valentina Sidorenko -- The youngest doll / Rosario Ferré -- Purple thistle / Denna Nelson -- The threshing floor / Barbara Burford -- Burn sugar / Marlene Nourbese Philip -- The awakening / Pearlie McNeill -- The chignon / Ch'i Chün -- Story / Barbara Rea -- Overwintering / Ingrid MacDonald -- A march guayacán / Bertalicia Peralta -- Amina / Shirley Saad -- Amazons in Appalachia / Marilou Awiakta -- The long trial / Andrée Chedid -- The wall-reader / Fiona Barr -- Kono Taeko -- Rosa Blanca, Rosa Negra, Rosa colorear / Marcella Lucinda García -- Broken threads / Maria-Antónia Oliver -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe -- Doña Marciana Garćia / Rocky Gámez -- The pied piper: a fairy story / Kym Martindale -- Lullaby / Kim Chi-wŏn -- In the life / Becky Birtha -- Her tru-true name / Merle Hodge. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
The traditional literary themes of birth, death, love, sex, and betrayal are represented here as well as more specifically feminist themes--intergenerational relationships among women, reproductive perils, lesbian love, the impact of war on families, and violence against women. |
| Provenance |
Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Women authors.
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Fiction -- Women authors. |
| Genre/Form |
Feminist fiction.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Subject |
Women -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Penelope, Julia, 1941-
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Valentine, Sarah, 1959-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: International feminist fiction. Freedom, CA : Crossing Press, c1992 (OCoLC)622141422 |
| ISBN |
0895945568 : $20.95 |
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9780895945563 |
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0895945673 |
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9780895945679 |
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