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Women's Literature

FICTION


Toni Cade Bambara The Lesson
Willa Cather Paul's Case
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street
Louise Erdrich The Red Convertible
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
Sarah Orne Jewett A White Heron
Jamaica Kincaid Girl
Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Flannery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Grace Paley A Conversation with My Father
Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Amy Tan Two Kinds
Alice Walker Everyday Use
Eudora Welty A Worn Path




POETRY


Margaret Atwood The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart
Aphra Behn On Her Loving Two Equally
Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop One Art
Louise Bogan Women
Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband
Emily Brontë Riches I hold in light esteem
Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters
Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Marilyn Chin Turtle Soup
Lucille Clifton at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
Judith Ortiz Cofer Cold as Heaven
Jayne Cortez Into This Time
Toi Derricotte A Note on My Son's Face
Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death—
Emily Dickinson I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Emily Dickinson I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—
Emily Dickinson Much Madness is divinest Sense—
H. D. [Hilda Doolittle] Garden
Queen Elizabeth I When I was fair and young
Anita Endrezze The Girl Who Loved the Sky
Louise Erdrich A Love Medicine
Carolyn Forché The Colonel
Alice Fulton You Can't Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain
Louise Glück Parable of Flight
Kimiko Hahn When You Leave
Joy Harjo She Had Some Horses
Lyn Hejinian A Mask of Anger
Linda Hogan The History of Red
Allison Joseph On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person
Jane Kenyon From Room to Room
Heather McHugh What He Thought
Marianne Moore Poetry
Naomi Shihab Nye The Small Vases from Hebron
Wang Ping Syntax
Sylvia Plath Daddy
Christina Rossetti Song
Anne Sexton Cinderella
Cathy Song Girl Powdering Her Neck
Gertrude Stein Susie Asado
Wislawa Szymborska On Death, without Exaggeration
Jean Valentine December 21st
Anne Waldman Makeup on Empty Space
Nancy Willard Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him
Nellie Wong Grandmother's Song
Lady Mary Wroth Am I thus conquered?




DRAMA


Susan Glaspell Trifles




ESSAYS


Diane Ackerman We Are All a Part of Nature
Paula Gunn Allen Where I Come From Is Like This
Maya Angelou Champion of the World
Natalie Angier Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin
Gloria Anzaldúa How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Deb Aronson The Nurture of Nature
Linda Chavez Demystifying Multiculturalism
Judith Ortiz Cofer Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
K. C. Cole Women in Science
Joan Didion On Keeping a Notebook
Anne Fadiman Never Do That to a Book
Beverly Gross Bitch
Linda Hogan Hearing Voices
Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Helen Keller Three Days to See
Jamaica Kincaid The Ugly Tourist
Gloria Naylor The Meanings of a Word
Leslie Marmon Silko Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
Susan Sontag AIDS and Its Metaphors
Grace Suh The Eye of the Beholder
Amy Tan In the Canon for All the Wrong Reasons
Amy Tan Mother Tongue
Deborah Tannen There Is No Unmarked Woman
Jane Tompkins "Indians": Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History
Sojourner Truth A'n't I a Woman?
Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
Alice Walker Am I Blue?
Alice Walker Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
Alice Walker In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Mary Wollstonecraft From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth
Virginia Woolf Professions for Women
Virginia Woolf Shakespeare's Sister




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