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(4.5) | None | Stories on domestic violence over the past two centuries and the way some women handled it. In Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers, a wife declares she is such a sound sleeper she never heard the killers who strangled her husband with a rope as the two slept side-by-side. |
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Contains: - Chapter I, from A New Home, Who'll Follow? / Caroline Kirkland (1839)
- Slavery's Pleasant Homes / Lydia Maria Child (1843)
- A Dorlesky-Burpy Family Story / Marietta Holley (1883)
- Jack the Fisherman / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1887)
- In Sabine / Kate Chopin (1893)
- Tony's Wife / Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1899)
- The Quiet Woman / Mary Heaton Vorse (1907)
- The Gold Vanity Set / María Cristina Mena (1913)
- A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell (1917)
- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston (1926)
- Hattie Turner Versus Hattie Turner / Fannie Hurst (1935)
- Pre-Freudian / Dorothy Canfield (1936)
- The Brown House / Hisaye Yamamoto (1951)
- That She Would Dance No More / Jean Wheeler Smith (1968)
- To Be A Man / Ann Allen Shockley (1969)
- After Saturday Nite Comes Sunday / Sonia Sanchez (1971)
- The Day My Father Tried To Kill Us / Pat Staten (1974)
- Las Dos Hermanas / Rosalie Otero Peralta (1975)
- Bertha Schneider's Existential Edge / Andrea Dworkin (1975)
- Ghosts Like Them / Shirley Ann Taggart (1978)
- Woman Waiting for Train at Dusk / Constance Pierce (1982)
- "I Don't Believe This" / Merrill Joan Gerber (1984)
- Minerva Writes Poems / Sandra Cisneros (1984)
- Linoleum Roses / Sandra Cisneros (1984)
- Noises / Jane Bradley (1989)
- If It Weren't for the Honeysuckle / Estela Portillo Trambley (1990)
- Women in the Trees / Pat Murphy (1990)
- The Man Who Loved His Wife / Janet Lapierre (1990)
- Wild Turkeys / Beth Brant (1991)
- South Sangamon / Sandra Cisneros (1993)
- The Jewelry Collection of Marta La Güera / Mary Helen Ponce (1993)
- Happy Ending / Barbara Harman (1994)
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