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Author, Last Author, First Title
Abbott Marie The american woman: her past, her present, her future
Abel Elizabeth Writing and sexual difference
Agress Lynne The feminine irony: women on women in early nineteenth century english literature
Ammons Elizabeth Edith wharton’s argument with america
Anderson Douglas A house undivided: domesticity and community in american literature
Ascher Barbara Lazear Playing after dark
Ascher Carol Between women
Atkinson Ti-grace Amazon odyssey: the first collection of writings by the political pioneer of the women’s movement
Bal Mieke Lethal love: feminist literary readings of biblical love stories
Barker Mildred Women: feminist stories by nine authors
Barr Marlene S Future females: a critical anthology
Barr Discontented discourses
Bartkowski Frances Feminist utopias
Baruch Women in search of utopia
Bassein Beth Ann Women and death: linkages in wester thought and literature
Bassnett Susan Knives and angels: women writers in latin america
Bassnett Susan Sylvia plath
Batsleer Janet Rewriting english: cultural politics of gender and class
Beck Warren A Understanding american history through fiction
Becker Lucille Frackman Twentieth-century french women novelists
Beer Gillian George eliot
Belsey Catherine The feminist reader: essays in gender and the politics of literary criticism
Benatovich Beth What we know so far: wisdom among women
Bennett Paula My life a loaded gun: female creativity and feminist poetics
Benstock Shari The private self
Benstock Shari Women of the left bank
Berg Temma F Engendering the word
Berger Authur Asa Cultural criticism: a primer of key concepts
Berkove Lawrence I The fighting horse of the stanislaus
Betken William T The other shakespeare: the two gentlemen of verona
Bigelow Gordon E Selected letters of marjorie kinnan rawlings
Bittner James W Approaches to the fiction of ursula k leguin
Blackwell Jeannine Bitter healing: german women writers 1700-1830
Bohlke L Brent Willa cather in person
Bonner Thomas Jr The kate chopin companion
Botting Fred Frankenstein
Boumelha Penny Thomas hardy women: sexual ideology and narrative form
Bowlby Rachel Just looking: consumer culture in dreiser, gissing, and zola
Bowles Gloria Louise bogan’s aesthetic of limitation
Braxton Joanne M Wild women in the whirlwind
Brydon Diana Christina stead
Budhos Shirley The theme of enclosure in selected works of doris lessing
Butler Judith Feminists theorize the political
Cardinale Susan Anthologies by and about women
Carr Helen From my guy to sci-fi: genre and women’s writing in the postmodern world
Carter Angela The old wives’ fairy tale book
Cary Meredith Different drummers: a study of cultural alternatives in fiction
Cederstrom Lorelei Fine-tuning the feminine psyche
Chester Alfred Looking for genet: literary essays and reviews
Chester Laura Deep down: the new sensual writing by women
Chitnis Bernice Reflecting on nana
Christian Barbara Black feminist criticism: perspectives on black women writers
Clareus Ingrid Scandinavian women writers
Claridge Laura Out of bounds: male writers and gender(ed) criticism
Clausen Jan Books and life
Coney Verena Andermatt Helene cixous: writing the feminine
Cooper Jane Roberta Reading adrienne rich: reviews and re-visions 1951-81
Crecelius Kathryn J Family romances: george sand’s early novels
Cummings Michael S Utopian studies ii
Davidson Arnold E The art of margaret atwood: essays in criticism
Davies Stevie Emily bronte
De rougemont Denis Love declared: essays on the myths of love
Dekoven Marianne Rich and strange: gender, history, modernism
Delany Sheila Writing woman: women writers and women in literature medieval to modern
Desalvo Louise Nathaniel hawthorne
Deshazer Mary K Inspiring women: reimagining the muse
Devanny Jean Point of departure
Dibattista Maria First love: the affections of modern fiction
Dickerson Vanessa Victorian ghosts in the noontide
Dinshaw Carolyn Chaucer’s sexual poetics
Doan Laura L Old maids to radical spinsters
Donovan Josephine After the fall
Donovan Josephine Feminist literary criticism: explorations in theory
Donovan Josephine New england local colorado literature: explorations in theory
Donovan Josephine Sarah orne jewett
Ducille Ann The coupling convention: sex, text, and tradition in black women’s fiction
Duerk Judith The circle continues
Dugaw Dianne Warrior women and popular balladry 1650-1850
Duplessis Rachel Blau Writing beyond the ending
Edwards Lee R American voices, american women
Elbert Sarah A hunger for home
Fairbanks Carol Farm women on the praire frontier
Fannin Alice Woman an affirmation
Farber Seymour M The challenge to women
Farber Seymour M The potential of women
Farrell Kirby Women in the renaissance
Felski Rita Beyond feminist aesthetics
Ferguson Mary Anne Images of women in literature
Fisher Dexter The third woman, minority women writers of the us
Flynn Elizabeth A Gender and reading
Foster Frances Smith Written by herself
Foster Jeanette H Sex variant women in literature
Francis Baetyl
the journal of women’s literature
Frenier Mariam Darce Good-bye heathcliff
Fritz Fleischmann American novelists revisited: essays in feminist criticism
Frye Joanne S Living stories telling lives: women and the novel in contemporary experience
Fryer Judith Faves of eve
Fryer Judith Felicitous space: the imaginative structures of edith wharton and willa cather
Fuchs Ester Israeli mythognies
Gasiorowska Xenia Women in soviet fiction 1917-1964
Gates Henry Louis Jr Reading black, reading feminist
Gilbert Sandra The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the 19th century literary imagination
Gilbert Sandra M No man’s land
Gilbert Sandra M The norton anthology of literature by women: the tradition in english
Ginsberg Elaine K Virginia woolf: centenial essays
Gladstein Mimi Reisel The ayn rand companion
Gladstein Mimi Reisel The indestructible women in faulkner, hemingway, and steinbeck
Goodman Ellen Close to home
Goodman Susan Edith wharthon’s women
friends and rivals
Goreau Angeline The whole duty of a woman
Graffigny Francoise De Lettres d’une peruvienne
Grant Mary Kathryn The tragic vision of joyce carol oates
Greene Gayle Making a difference feminist literry criticism
Greer Germaine The mad woman’s underclothes
Grier Barbara Lesbiana
Gwin Minrose C Balck and white women of the old south
Gygax Frankziska Serious daring from within
Hallissy Margaret Venomous woman: fear of the female in literture
Hardwick Elizabeth Seduction & betrayal: women & literature
Harris Trudier Black women in the fiction of james baldwin
Harris Trudier From mammies to militants: domestics in black american literature
Harrison Nancy R Jean rhys: and the novel as women’s text
Haselkorn Anne The renaissance englishwoman in counterbalancing the canon
Hecht Marie B The woman, yes
Heffernan Carol Falvo The phoenix at the fountain
Heilbrun Carolyn Writing a woman’s life
Heldt Barbara Terrible perfection: women and russian literature
Hererra-sobek Maria Chicana creativity and criticism: charting new frontiers in american literature
Herrmann Claudine The tongue snatchers
Hickok Kathleen Representations of women
Higonnet Margaret Reconfigured spheres: feminist explorations of literary space
Hoffman Leonore Teaching women’s literature from a regional perspective
Hoffman Leonore Women’s personal narratives
Hogeland Lisa Maria Feminism and its fictions
Holloway Karla F C The character of the world
Homans Margaret Women writers and poetic identity
Honey Maureen Shadowed dreams: women’s poetry of the harlem renaissance
Honig Edith Lazaros Breaking the angelic image
Huf Linda A portrait of the artist as a woman
Hull Gloria Color, sex and poetry
Humm Maggie Feminist critixism
Humm Maggie Modern feminsms: polital, literary, cultural
Hunt Women & the enlightenment
Jacobus Mary Reading women: essays in feminist criticism
Jacoby Susan The possible she
Jay Karla The amazon and the page
Jed Stephanie H Chaste thinking
Johnson Julie Greer Women in colonial spanish american literature
Jones Libby Falk Feminism, utopia, and narrative
Jones Ssuzanne W Writing the woman artist
Joseph Gloria I Common differences: in black and white feminst perspectives
Juhasz Suzanne Feminist critics read emily dickenson
Juhasz Suzanne Reading from the heart
Juhasz Suzanne The undiscovered continent
Kamuf Peggy Fictions of feminine desire
disclosures of heloise
Kauffman Linda Gender & theory: dialogues on feminist criticism
Kennard Jean E Vera brittain and winifred holtby: a working partnership
Kessler Carol Farley Elizabeth stuart phelps
Kestner Joseph Protest and reform
King Betty Women of the future: the female main character in science fiction
Kirkham Margaret Jane austen, feminism and fiction
Kirkland Caroline A new home, who’ll follow?
Kirkpatrick Susan Las romanticas: women writers and subjectivity in spain, 1835-1850
Kiyooka Eiichi Fukuzawa yukichi on japanese women
Klein Kathleen Gregory The woman detective: gender and genre
Knapp Bettina L Anais nin
Kolodny Annette The lay of the land
Krentz Jayne Dangerous men and adventurous women: romance writers on the appeal of the romance
La belle Jenijoy Herself beheld
Landry Materialist feminisms
Lee Hermione Elizabeth bowen: an estimation
Lefkowitz Mary R Heroines and hysterics
Leitch Vincent B Deconstructive criticism
Leonardi Susan J Dangerous by degress
Lewis Paula Gilbert Traditional, nationalism, and feminism
Lloyd Rosemary Madame bovary
Loeb Judy Feminist collage: educating women in the visual arts
Looser Devoney Jane austen and discourses of feminism
Love Jean O Virginia woolf
Mairs Nancy Carnal acts: essays
Marder Herbert Feminism and art: a study of virginia woolf
Mariechild Lesbian sacred sesuality
Mayne Judith Private novels, public films
Mcbee Blake The american women: who will she be?
Mcdonnell Jacqueline Waugh on women
Meaney Gerardine unlike subjects: women, theory, fiction
Meese Elizabeth A Crossing the double-cross
Melman Billie Women and the popular imagination in the twenties
Messaoudi Khalida Unbowed: an algerian woman confronts islamic fundamentalism
Miles Rosalind The female form: women writers and the conquest of the novel
Miller Nancy Subject to change: reading feminist writing
Mills Sara Feminist reading
Miner Madonne M Insatiable appetites
Miner Valerie All good women
Mitchell W J T Critical inquiry: writing and sexual difference
Moers Ellen Literary women: the great writers
Moi Toril Sexual/textual politics
Montgomery Maureen E Displaying women
Moraga Cherrie This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color
Morris Meaghan The pirate’s fiancee
Murray Michele A huse of good proportion
Mussell Kay Fantasy and reconciliation
Nathan Rhonda B Nineteenth-century women writers of the english-speaking world
Newton Esther Mother camp
Newton Judith Lowder Women, power, subversion
Newton Feminist criticism and social change
Nussbaum Felicity The new 18th century
Off Elaine Neil Tillie olsen and a feminist spiritual vision
Orel Harold The literary achievement of rebecca west
Ostriker Alicia Writing like a woman
Papke Mary E Verging on the abyss: the social fiction of kate chopin and edith wharton
Parker Patricia Literary fat ladies: rhetoric, gender, property
Parrington Vernon L The romantic revolution in america 1800-1860
Paz Octavio Sor juana
Pearlman Mickey American women writing fiction: memory, identity, family, space
Pearlman Mickey Interview: talks with america’s writing women
Pearlman Mickey Mother puzzles: daughters and mothers in contemporary american literture
Pearson Carol Who am i this time? femaile portraits in british and american literature
Pereira Teresinka Segundo simposio internacional de litertura femenina en lationamerica, siglo xx
Petersen Kirsten Holst A double colonization: colonial and post-colonial women’s writing
Phillips Eileen The left & the erotic
Poovey Mary The proper lady and the woman writer
Pringle Mary Beth Sex roles in literature
Pryse Marjorie Conjuring: black women, fiction, and literary tradition
Radford Jean The progress of romance: the politics of popular fiction
Reeves Nancy Womankind: beyond the stereotypes
Register Cheri Mothers-saviors-peacemakers: swedish women writers in the twentieth century
Renza Louis A A white heron and the question of minor literature
Rich Adrienne On lies, secrets, and silence
Rigney Barbara Hill Margaret artwood
Rogers Katherine Before their times
Rosowski Susan J Cather studies: volume 1
Ross Andrew Universal abandon?: the politics of postmodernism
Russ Joanna Magic mommas, trembling sisters, puritans & perverts
Russell Dora The dora russell reader
Sadlier Darlene J The question of how : women writers and new portugese
Sanders Valerie Reason over passion: harriet maratineau and the victorian novel
Scheier Libby Language in her eye
Schofield Mary Anne Fetter’d or free? british women novelists, 1670-1815
Schor Naomi Reading in detail: aesthetics and the feminine
Scott Bonnie Kime James joyce
Sedgwick Eve Kosofosky Epistemology of the closet
Selous Trista The othe woman: feminism and femininity in the work of marguerite duras
Shapiro Ann R Unlikely heroines: nineteenth-century american women writers and the woman question
Shepard Simon Amazons & warrior women: varieties of feminism in seventeenth century drama
Shinn Thelma J Radiant daughters: fictional american women
Shinn Thelma J Worlds within women: myth and mythmaking in fantastic literture by wome
Showalter Elaine A literature of their own: british women novlists from bronte to lessing
Showalter Elaine Speaking of gender
Showalter Elaine The new feminist criticism: essays on women, literature, & theory
Showalter Elaine Women’s liberation and literture
Siegel Ruth Rosamond lehmann
Simons Judy Fanny burney
Smith Barbara Home girls: a black feminist anthology
Smith Hilda L Women and the literature of the seventeeth century
Smith Leroy W Jane austen: and the drama of woman
Smith Paul Discerning the subject
Spacks Patricia The female imagination
Spencer Jane The rise of the woman novelist: from aphra behn to jane austen
Spender Dale British women writers
Spender Dale Mothers of the novel
Spender Dale Women of ideas (and what men have done to them)
Spivack Charlotte Melin’s daughters: contemporary women writers of fantasy
St andrews Bonnie Forbidden fruit
Stambolian George Homo-sexualities and french literature: cultural contexts/critical texts
Stevenson Catherine Barnes Victorian women travel writers in africa
Stewart Grace A new mythos: the novel of artist as heroine, 1877-1977
Stimpson Catharine R Where the meanings are: feminism and cultural speaces
Stocks Kenneth Emily dickinson and the modern consciousness
Suleiman Susan Rubin Subversive intent: gender, politics, and avant-garde
Sweeney Patricia Women in southern literature : an index
Swindells Julia Victorian writing and working women : the other side of silence
Taiwo Oladele Female novelists of modern africa
Taylor Anne Robinson Male novelists and their female voices : literary masquerades
Todd Janet Feminist literary history
Todd Janet Sensibility : an introduction
Todd Janet Women writers talking
Tripp Maggie Woman in the year 2000
Valis Noel In the feminine mode : essays on hispanic women writers
Vansant Jacqueline Against the horizon : feminism and postwar austrian women writers
Waid Candance Edith wharton’s letters from the underworld : fictions of women and writing
Walker Cheryl The nightingale’s burden : women poets and american culture before 1900
Walker Nancy A Feminist alternatives : irony and fantasy in the contemporary novel by women
Walker Nancy A Redressing the balance : american women’s literary humor from colonial times to the 1980s
Wall Cheryl A Changing our own words : essays on criticism, theory, and writing by black women
Warhol Robyn R Feminisms : an anthology of literary theory and criticism
Warren Joyce W The american narcissus : individualism and women in nineteenth-century american fiction
Wasserman Barbara Alson The bold new women
Waugh Patricia Feminine fictions : revisiting the postmodern
Weiss Andrea Paris was a woman : portraits from the left bank
Wershoven Carol Child brides and intruders
West Celeste Words in our pockets : the feminist writers’ guild handbook on how to gain power, get published & get paid
West Uta Women in a changing world
White Barbara A Growing up female : adolescent girlhood in american fiction
Whitlow Roger Cassandra’s daughters : the women in hemingway
Wilchins Riki Anne Read my lips : sexual subversion and the end of gender
Willis Susan Specifying : black women writing the american experience
Wilson Katharina M Women writers of the renaissance and reformation
Winders James A Gender, theory, and the canon
Woodbridge Linda Women and the english renaissance : literature and the nature of womankind, 1540-1620
Woolf Virginia Three guineas
Yalom Marilyn Women writers of the west coast : speaking of their lives and careers
Yorke Liz Impertinent voices : subversive strategies in contemporary women’s poetry
Zipes Jack Don’t bet on the prince : contemporary feminist fairy tales in north america and england