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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Written by Marion Meade
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385533010
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Written by Marion Meade


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $14.00

In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.

Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era... Read more >
A Jury of Her Peers
A Jury of Her Peers
Written by Elaine Showalter
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400041237
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A Jury of Her Peers
American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Written by Elaine Showalter


Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $30.00

A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.

In a narrative of immense scope and fascination—brimming with Elaine Showalter’s characteristic wit and incisive opinions—we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and... Read more >
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A Jury of Her Peers
A Jury of Her Peers
Written by Elaine Showalter
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307271457
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A Jury of Her Peers

Written by Elaine Showalter


Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $30.00

A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.

In a narrative of immense scope and fascination—brimming with Elaine Showalter’s characteristic wit and incisive opinions—we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
Belief in Dialogue
Belief in Dialogue
Written by B. Marie Christian
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590511466
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Belief in Dialogue

Written by B. Marie Christian


Format: Trade Paperback, 250 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2005
Price: $20.00

The works of Julia Alvarez, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, Graciela Limon, Pat Mora, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Esmerelda Santiago, among others, are illuminated here.

By uniting historical, cultural, religious, and literary commentary, Belief in Dialogue is designed to help the student or general reader to more completely enjoy and understand... Read more >
Matricide in Language
Matricide in Language
Written by Miglena Nikolchina
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ISBN: 9781590510803
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Matricide in Language

Written by Miglena Nikolchina


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2004
Price: $24.00

The nexus of psychoanalytic, literary, and philosophical approaches in this book focuses on an intertextual reading of Woolf and Kristeva in order to address the enigma of the persistent suppression of women's contributions to culture. In spite of the efforts of feminist theory and history to turn the tide, this process... Read more >
Seduction and Betrayal
Seduction and Betrayal
Written by Elizabeth Hardwick, Introduction by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780940322783
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Seduction and Betrayal
Women and Literature
Written by Elizabeth Hardwick
Introduction by Joan Didion


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2001
Price: $12.95

The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery... Read more >
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