| Description |
xxviii, 321 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Christian McEwen -- Beautiful My Mane in the Wind / Catherine Petroski -- By Great Good Fortune / Emily Hiestand -- Drummer / Linda Smukler -- How Lars Porsena of Clusium Got Opal into Trouble / Opal Whiteley -- Bird Woman / Suniti Namjoshi -- Beautiful and Cruel / Sandra Cisneros -- from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard -- from Good Girls Don't Wear Trousers / Lara Cardella -- from Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter / Simone De Beauvoir -- Horse Camp / Ursula K. Le Guin -- from Sula / Toni Morrison -- In the Night / Jamaica Kincaid -- Adventures of the Dread Sisters / Alexis De Veaux -- Gorilla, My Love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Woman, Man, and Trousers / Nina Newington -- Johnnieruth / Becky Birtha -- from Allegra Maud Goldman / Edith Konecky -- from The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Lizzie Higgins / Nancy Brooks Brody -- Horsegirl / Elizabeth Rose Campbell -- from The Member of the Wedding / Carson McCullers |
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The Child Who Loved Roads / Cora Sandel -- from Lives of Girls and Women / Alice Munro -- from Crews / Maria Hinojosa -- from Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman / Frances Willard -- Tommy, the Unsentimental / Willa Cather -- Drummer / Bia Lowe -- from Sacred Country / Rose Tremain -- from The Cavalry Maiden / Nadezhda Durova -- from Orlando / Virginia Woolf -- from Stone Butch Blues / Leslie Feinberg -- Ruthy and Edie / Grace Paley -- Al-Dawwara / Barbara Nimri Aziz -- Into the Woods / Gail B. Griffin -- The Conceit of Girls / Teresa Jordan -- Tomboy / Anne LaBastille -- New Year's Eve, Lunch, Housework, and Stripped / Minnie Bruce Pratt -- The Tomboy Returns! / Susan Moon -- A Jewel for a Friend / J. California Cooper -- My Mother and the Forbidden Fruit / Colette |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors.
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Girls -- Literary collections.
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Sex role -- Literary collections.
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| Author |
McEwen, Christian, 1956-
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| LC no. |
96047124 |
| ISBN |
0807062111 (paperback) |
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