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(3.5) | 1 | In this collection of acclaimed contemporary female writers akin to Women Who Run with the Wolves, the independent, unconventional woman is glorified as an icon of liberation by both women and men. Margaret Atwood's Half-Hanged Mary offers a verse tribute to a woman wrongly tried for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. Joyce Carol Oates's Haunted describes the bond between two young girls, one black, one white, in a small southern town. Alice Walker's A Woman Is Not a Potted Plant praises the woman unfettered by civilization, roaming free in nature.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 1 mention » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Hall, Melissa Mia | Editor, Contributor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Atwood, Margaret | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bryant, Edward | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cadigan, Pat | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Campbell, Bebe Moore | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Collins, Nancy A. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Day, John A. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Douglas, Carole Nelson | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Estes, Clarissa Pinkola | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Holder, Nancy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jong, Erica | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lansdale, Joe R. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Le Guin, Ursula K. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Leiber, Fritz | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Malone, Susan Mary | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Martin, Patricia Preciado | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Matheson, Richard Christian | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Oates, Joyce Carol | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Raffel, Dawn | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sarris, Greg | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Taylor, Lucy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tomioka, Taeko | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tuttle, Lisa | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Walker, Alice | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Watanabe, Sylvia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wilhelm, Kate | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Willis, Connie | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wolfe, Gene | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Yolen, Jane | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions In this collection of acclaimed contemporary female writers akin to Women Who Run with the Wolves, the independent, unconventional woman is glorified as an icon of liberation by both women and men. Margaret Atwood's Half-Hanged Mary offers a verse tribute to a woman wrongly tried for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. Joyce Carol Oates's Haunted describes the bond between two young girls, one black, one white, in a small southern town. Alice Walker's A Woman Is Not a Potted Plant praises the woman unfettered by civilization, roaming free in nature. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Anthology contains: - Half-Hanged Mary / Margaret Atwood
- Going North / Lucy Taylor
- How I Got to Be Queen / Greg Sarris
- Haunted / Joyce Carol Oates
- The Dancer / Patricia Preciado Martin
- The Girl with the Hungry Eyes / Fritz Lieber
- While She Was Out / Edward Bryant
- The Merry Widow / Kate Wilhelm
- Esther Goes on the Offensive / Bebe Moore Campbell
- This Is a Story / Jane Yolen
- Over the Pass / Susan Mary Malone
- Cold Turkey / Carole Nelson Douglas
- Winter's Tale / Connie Willis
- A Woman Is Not a Potted Plant / Alice Walker
- Is Anybody Listening? / Dawn Raffel
- Incident on and Off a Mountain Road / Joe R. Lansdale
- Wolfer / Gene Wolfe
- Oral / Richard Christian Matheson
- Straw Dogs / Taeko Tomioka
- Rope-Bound / John A. Day
- Women's Stories / Jane Yolen
- How-To Books & Other Absurdities / Erica Jong
- Heat / Nancy Holder
- The Wife's Story / Ursula K. Le Guin
- Bits and Pieces / Lisa Tuttle
- Rabbit Hole / Jane Yolen
- Iphigenia / Nancy A. Collins
- Werewomen / Ursula K. Le Guin
- Talking to the Dead / Sylvia Watanade
- Lost Girls / Pat Cadigan
- Psychofemmes / Melissa Mia Hall
- The Wolf's Eyelash / Clarissa Pinkola EsteĢs
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This is also not an exclusive collection, and I was disappointed to find that many of the better stories, I'd already read. (Connie Willis' 'Winter's Tale,' Ursula LeGuin's 'The Wife's Story' and Kate Wilhelm's 'The Merry Widow.') There were some great selections that were new to me, however: Joyce Carol Oates - 'Haunted,' Nancy Collins - 'Iphigenia,' Jane Yolen - 'Rabbit Hole.' Pat Cadigan's feminist analysis of the Peter Pan story was a joyful delight. Gene Wolfe's 'Wolfer' was really good up until the completely out-of-place injection of religion into the end. Many of the other pieces were just alright, or didn't really do it for me. ( )