| Introduction | | 3 | (4) |
| PART I: Short Fiction | | 7 | (266) |
| | 9 | (12) |
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| | 21 | (6) |
| Alice Ruth Moore Dunba-Nelson |
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| | 27 | (14) |
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| | 41 | (15) |
| Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman |
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| A male Magdalene from Samantha vs. Josiah |
| | 56 | (7) |
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| | 63 | (5) |
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| | 68 | (15) |
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| | 83 | (12) |
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| | 95 | (5) |
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| | 100 | (11) |
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| | 111 | (15) |
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| A late Encounter With the Enemy |
| | 126 | (9) |
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| | 135 | (8) |
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| | 143 | (5) |
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| Extenuating Circumstances |
| | 148 | (6) |
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| | 154 | (5) |
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| | 159 | (17) |
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| | 176 | (14) |
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| | 190 | (7) |
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| | 197 | (32) |
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| | 229 | (44) |
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| PART II: Poetry | | 273 | (38) |
| Poetry from the Beginning |
| | 274 | (17) |
| To My Dear and Loving Husband |
| | 275 | (1) |
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| | 276 | (3) |
| | 279 | (1) |
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| The Soul Selects Her Own Society |
| | 280 | (1) |
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| This is My Letter to the World |
| | 281 | (1) |
| My Life had Stood---A Loaded Gun |
| | 281 | (1) |
| After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes |
| | 282 | (1) |
| | 283 | (1) |
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| | 283 | (1) |
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| | 284 | (1) |
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| | 285 | (1) |
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| | 286 | (1) |
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| | 286 | (1) |
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| | 287 | (4) |
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| | 291 | (20) |
| | 292 | (2) |
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| | 294 | (2) |
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| | 296 | (2) |
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| | 298 | (1) |
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| What the Gypsy Said to her Children |
| | 299 | (1) |
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| | 300 | (1) |
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| | 301 | (4) |
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| | 305 | (2) |
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| | 307 | (1) |
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| | 308 | (3) |
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| PART III: Public Lives | | 311 | (68) |
| | 312 | (18) |
| On the Equality of the Sexes |
| | 313 | (3) |
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| A Woman at Forty, from Women in the Nineteenth Century |
| | 316 | (5) |
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| The Working-Girls of New York, from Folly As It Flies |
| | 321 | (2) |
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| | 323 | (7) |
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| The Struggle for Understanding |
| | 330 | (21) |
| The Higher Education of Women |
| | 331 | (6) |
| Anna Julia Haywood Cooper |
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| The Coyote-Spirit and the Weaving Woman |
| | 337 | (5) |
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| | 342 | (9) |
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| From the Personal to the Political |
| | 351 | (28) |
| More than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island |
| | 352 | (4) |
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| Longing to Die of Old Age |
| | 356 | (2) |
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| Last Words on Vietnam, 1987 |
| | 358 | (7) |
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| | 365 | (7) |
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| | 372 | (3) |
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| | 375 | (2) |
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| | 377 | (2) |
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| PART IV: Acting Out | | 379 | (110) |
| | 380 | (61) |
| | 381 | (12) |
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| Trifles: A Play in One Act |
| | 393 | (14) |
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| | 407 | (34) |
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| Speeches and Performance Pieces |
| | 441 | (16) |
| | 441 | (2) |
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| | 443 | (4) |
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| | 447 | (5) |
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| Roslyn Malamud: The Coup, from Fires in the Mirror |
| | 452 | (5) |
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| | 457 | (32) |
| | 458 | (8) |
| Kopis'Taya (A Gathering of Sprits) |
| | 466 | (2) |
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| | 468 | (2) |
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| | 470 | (1) |
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| from The Women of Brewster Place |
| | 471 | (3) |
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| The Sixth Work: Rituals for the Extended Family, from Jambalaya |
| | 474 | (5) |
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| The Ceremonies of Community, from The Telling |
| | 479 | (10) |
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| PART V: Private Lives | | 489 | (62) |
| The Republic of Women's Letters |
| | 490 | (8) |
| | 491 | (1) |
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| Letter to the Editors of Freedom's Journal |
| | 492 | (1) |
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| Letter XV: Man Equally Guilty with woman in the Fall |
| | 493 | (5) |
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| Women in the Nineteenth Century |
| | 498 | (14) |
| | 499 | (3) |
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| Afternoon in the Woods, from Rural Hours |
| | 502 | (2) |
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| The Trials of Girlhood, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
| | 504 | (3) |
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| | 507 | (1) |
| Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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| | 508 | (1) |
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| | 509 | (3) |
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| | 512 | (24) |
| | 513 | (1) |
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| | 514 | (1) |
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| The School Days of an Indian Girl |
| | 514 | (9) |
| Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) |
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| Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian |
| | 523 | (10) |
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| | 533 | (3) |
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| | 536 | (15) |
| | 537 | (2) |
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| Names, from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood |
| | 539 | (7) |
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| | 546 | (1) |
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| To Gabriela, A Young Writer |
| | 547 | (4) |
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| PART VI: Bodily Pleasures | | 551 | (32) |
| | 552 | (16) |
| The Last Return from the Sea, from The Captain's Lady's Cookbook |
| | 553 | (1) |
| Bass for Picasso, from The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book |
| | 554 | (2) |
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| Sunday Revival Dinner, from the Taste of Country Cooking |
| | 556 | (7) |
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| Los Dias De Los Muertos, from Food From My Heart |
| | 563 | (5) |
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| | 568 | (15) |
| Wild Nights---Wild Nights! |
| | 569 | (1) |
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| | 569 | (1) |
| | 570 | (1) |
| The Storm, A Sequal to ``The 'Cadian Ball'' |
| | 570 | (5) |
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| | 575 | (2) |
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| I Want to Die While You Love Me |
| | 577 | (1) |
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| | 577 | (1) |
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| Mandra, II, from Little Birds |
| | 578 | (2) |
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| | 580 | (1) |
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| She Didn't Think We Were Married |
| | 581 | (1) |
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| Fifteen, from Autumn Sequence |
| | 581 | (2) |
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| Acknowledgments | | 583 | (8) |
| Topical Listing of Contents | | 591 | (4) |
| Index | | 595 | |
