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Titles	Order
The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman by Ken Bugul	Conflicting Cultures
After Henry: Essays by Joan Didion	Observations
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys	Choices
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller	Violence
AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag	Ways of Knowing
Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman	Heritage
All but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family by Mary Clearman Blew	Pioneers and Seekers
Allegra Maud Goldman by Edith Konecky	Growing Up
Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir by Sissela Bok	Work
The Amber Gods and Other Stories by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford	Imagined Worlds
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša	Conflicting Cultures
And the Bridge Is Love by Faye Moskowitz	Observations
And They Didn't Die by Lauretta Ngcobo	Power
Angie, I Says by Avra Wing	Work
Annapurna: A Woman's Place by Arlene Blum	Pioneers and Seekers
Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson	Mothers and Mothering
Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw	Choices
Artemisia by Anna Banti	Art
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein	Art
Awaiting Trespass by Linda Ty-Casper	Power
The Awakening by Kate Chopin	Choices
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi	Power
A Bag of Stories by Edla Van Steen	Imagined Worlds
Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories by Opal Palmer Adisa	Places and Homes
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison	Families
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver	Mothers and Mothering
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates	Choices
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight	Mothers and Mothering
The Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall	Power
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley	Observations
Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir by Jean Said Makdisi	Violence
Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell	Places and Homes
Belfast Woman by Mary Beckett	Places and Homes
The Bell by Iris Murdoch	Ethics
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath	Trials and Adversity
Beloved by Toni Morrison	Violence
Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills by Latife Tekin	Trials and Adversity
The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood	Mothers and Mothering
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins	Ways of Knowing
Black Ice by Lorene Cary	Identity
Black Venus by Angela Carter	Imagined Worlds
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate	Art
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years by Margaret Mead	Work
Blue Taxis: Stories about Africa by Eileen Drew	Conflicting Cultures
Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett	Work
Bone by Fae Myenne Ng	Families
The Bone People by Keri Hulme	Violence
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan	Ethics
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton	Heritage
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan	Heritage
Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska	Heritage
Breakthrough by Mercedes Valdivieso	Identity
The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart	Mothers and Mothering
A bridge through time: A memoir by Laila Abou-Saif	Work
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer	Heritage
Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution by Edith T. Mirante	Violence
The Butcher's Wife by Ang Li	Violence
Call Home the Heart by Fielding Burke	Work
Cantora by Sylvia Lopez-Medina	Families
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands by Nellie Campobello	Violence
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth	Conflicting Cultures
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood	Friendships and Interactions
The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars by Nadezhda Durova	Pioneers and Seekers
The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories by Luisa Valenzuela	Trials and Adversity
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko	Ways of Knowing
The Changelings by Jo Sinclair	Growing Up
Changes in Latitude: An Uncommon Anthropology by Joana McIntyre Varawa	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Child of Fortune by Yūko Tsushima	Mothers and Mothering
Child of Her People by Anne Cameron	Mothers and Mothering
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus	Violence
Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute	Growing Up
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin	Violence
Circe's Mountain by Marie Luise Kaschnitz	Friendships and Interactions
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy	Growing Up
City of Kings by Rosario Castellanos	Power
Claiming Breath by Diane Glancy	Art
The Clay That Breathes: A Novella and Stories by Catherine Browder	Conflicting Cultures
Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung	Conflicting Cultures
Cleaned Out by Annie Ernaux	Conflicting Cultures
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai	Families
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons	Families
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns	Growing Up
The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop	Art
The Collector of Treasures by Bessie Head	Friendships and Interactions
Coming Home and Other Stories by Farida Karodia	Conflicting Cultures
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody	Conflicting Cultures
Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson	Work
The Confessions of Lady Nijo by Lady Nijo	Heritage
Constance Ring by Amalie Skram	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
The Convert by Elizabeth Robins	Choices
Coonardoo by Katharine Susannah Prichard	Conflicting Cultures
Copper Crown by Lane Von Herzen	Friendships and Interactions
The Coquette by Hannah W. Foster	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Cora Sandel: Selected Short Stories by Cora Sandel	Observations
Cordelia & other stories by Françoise Mallet-Joris	Friendships and Interactions
Corregidora by Gayl Jones	Identity
Cosima by Grazia Deledda	Art
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett	Friendships and Interactions
A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell	Observations
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa	Violence
Crick Crack, Monkey by Merle Hodge	Conflicting Cultures
Crossings by Chuang Hua	Families
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells	Pioneers and Seekers
Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice	Art
The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet	Pioneers and Seekers
Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether	Growing Up
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin	Art
The Dangerous Age by Karin Michaëlis	Growing Old
Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley	Trials and Adversity
A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Ida Pruitt	Trials and Adversity
Daughter of Persia by Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Daughter of the Hills: A Woman's Part in the Coal Miners' Struggle by Myra Page	Pioneers and Seekers
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey	Power
The Day I Began My Studies In Philosophy: And Other Stories by Margareta Ekström	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt	Art
Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot by Pearl Cleage	Ethics
Dear Departed: A Memoir by Marguerite Yourcenar	Heritage
The Devil Is Loose by Antonine Maillet	Pioneers and Seekers
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank	Trials and Adversity
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler	Ways of Knowing
Disappearing Acts by Terry McMillan	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee	Identity
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman	Observations
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat	Observations
The District Governor's Daughters by Camilla Collett	Choices
Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies by Virginia Cornell	Work
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn	Violence
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow	Choices
Dora, Doralina by Rachel de Queiroz	Identity
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García	Families
Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz	Ways of Knowing
Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life by Lina Magaia	Violence
The Dust Roads of Monferrato by Rosetta Loy	Heritage
Early Spring by Tove Ditlevsen	Growing Up
Efuru by Flora Nwapa	Heritage
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook	Choices
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons	Growing Up
Emma by Jane Austen	Identity
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin	Pioneers and Seekers
Eve's Tattoo by Emily Prager	Imagined Worlds
Evelina by Frances Burney	Ethics
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym	Observations
Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Marcia Freedman	Pioneers and Seekers
False Years (Discoveries) by Josefina Vicens	Identity
Family Album: Stories of Catholic Girlhood by Claribel Alegría	Imagined Worlds
Family Pictures by Sue Miller	Families
Farm Under a Lake by Martha Bergland	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee	Identity
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick	Mothers and Mothering
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing	Mothers and Mothering
Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong	Growing Up
Fifty Russian Winters: An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union by Margaret Wettlin	Observations
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley	Conflicting Cultures
Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi	Growing Up
The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata	Growing Up
Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos by Margret Wittmer	Pioneers and Seekers
Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter	Observations
Forged under the Sun by María Elena Lucas	Work
Fortunate Lives by Robb Forman Dew	Families
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West	Heritage
Frangipani House by Beryl Gilroy	Growing Old
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — not in English Common Knowledge	Imagined Worlds
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera	Art
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
From the Lanai and Other Hawaii Stories (MVP) by Jessica Saiki	Choices
Fruit Fields in My Blood: Okie Migrants in the West by Toby F. Sonneman	Work
G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton	Violence
Ganado Red by Susan Lowell	Heritage
The Garden Party - short story by Katherine Mansfield	Choices
The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble	Conflicting Cultures
Getting Home Alive by Aurora Levins Morales	Places and Homes
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson	Conflicting Cultures
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark	Trials and Adversity
God bless the child by Kristin Hunter Lattany	Power
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor	Observations
The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry	Places and Homes
Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara	Growing Up
Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook by Paula Gunn Allen	Power
Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskai︠a︡	Ethics
The Group by Mary McCarthy	Friendships and Interactions
Guests of the Sheik - An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea	Observations
Halfbreed by Maria Campbell	Conflicting Cultures
Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diaries by Hannah Senesh	Places and Homes
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven	Ways of Knowing
Heartwork: Selected Short Stories by Solveig von Schoultz	Friendships and Interactions
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Pioneers and Seekers
The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Her by Hilda Doolittle	Identity
Her by Cherry Muhanji	Places and Homes
The Hidden Hand or, Capitola the Madcap by E. D. E. N. Southworth	Pioneers and Seekers
The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince	Violence
Hitchhiking: Twelve German Tales by Gabriele Eckart	Friendships and Interactions
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Work
Homemade Love by J. California Cooper	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick	Ethics
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner	Choices
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector	Trials and Adversity
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton	Trials and Adversity
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende	Imagined Worlds
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán	Power
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros	Places and Homes
The House Tibet by Georgia Savage	Violence
The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo	Trials and Adversity
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson	Families
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez	Heritage
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ	Power
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic	Ways of Knowing
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman In Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú	Power
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé	Imagined Worlds
The Iguana by Anna Maria Ortese
An Imagined World: A Story of Scientific Discovery by June Goodfield	Work
The impenetrable Madam X by Griselda Gambaro	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
In Diamond Square by Mercè Rodoreda	Observations
In My Mother's House: A Daughter's Story by Kim Chernin	Mothers and Mothering
In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World by Ruth Sidransky	Ways of Knowing
Incantations and Other Stories by Anjana Appachana	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs	Trials and Adversity
Indiana by George Sand	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg	Trials and Adversity
The Irish R.M. by E. Somerville	Places and Homes
Islanders by Helen R. Hull	Growing Old
Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	Places and Homes
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by Janet Campbell Hale	Identity
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë	Identity
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee	Conflicting Cultures
Jerusalem Plays Hide and Seek by Ariella Deem	Identity
John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins	Power
Jubilee by Margaret Walker	Families
Juletane by Myriam Warner-Vieyra	Conflicting Cultures
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau	Heritage
Kelroy by Rebecca Rush	Power
Killing Color by Charlotte Watson Sherman	Power
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler	Imagined Worlds
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan	Mothers and Mothering
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou	Growing Up
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset	Growing Up
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird	Pioneers and Seekers
Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster	Work
The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins	Growing Up
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin	Places and Homes
The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry by Michelle Cliff	Conflicting Cultures
Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives by Carolyn Kay Steedman	Ways of Knowing
Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
The Last of the Menu Girls by Denise Chávez	Families
Later the Same Day by Grace Paley	Friendships and Interactions
Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir by Mamie Garvin Fields	Places and Homes
Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Kartini	Conflicting Cultures
Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880 by Betty John	Pioneers and Seekers
Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories by Rebecca Harding Davis	Ethics
Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life by Alice Childress	Work
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Limbo: A Memoir about Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor by Carobeth Laird	Growing Old
Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells	Families
The Little Hotel by Christina Stead	Observations
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg	Observations
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott	Families
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro	Growing Up
Living by Water: True Stories of Nature and Spirit by Brenda Peterson	Ways of Knowing
The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West	Power
Living My Life: An Autobiography of Emma Goldman by Emma Goldman	Pioneers and Seekers
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner	Choices
The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Look me in the eye: Old women, aging, and ageism by Barbara Macdonald	Growing Old
The Loom and Other Stories by Ruth A. Sasaki	Families
The Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett	Violence
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman	Conflicting Cultures
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson	Ethics
Love Must Not Be Forgotten by Zhang Jie	Trials and Adversity
The Lover by Marguerite Duras	Growing Up
The Lover of Horses by Tess Gallagher	Friendships and Interactions
Lovers' Choice by Becky Birtha	Identity
Loving and Giving by Molly Keane	Families
Loving in the War Years by Cherrie L. Moraga	Heritage
The Löwensköld Ring by Selma Lagerlöf	Imagined Worlds
Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Childhood by Wendy Ewald	Trials and Adversity
The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton	Choices
The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World by Ethel Johnston Phelps	Imagined Worlds
Mama Blanca's Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra	Growing Up
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor	Ways of Knowing
Man Made Language by Dale Spender	Ways of Knowing
Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography by Vicki Goldberg	Art
Margins by Terri De LA Pena	Identity
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell	Ethics
Mary O'Grady by Mary Lavin	Mothers and Mothering
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser	Power
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks	Families
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India by Elisabeth Bumiller	Observations
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan	Power
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers	Growing Up
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi	Power
Memory Board by Jane Rule	Growing Old
Middlemarch by George Eliot	Friendships and Interactions
A Midwife's Story by Penny Armstrong	Work
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich	Work
Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories (Panda Books) by Ding Ling	Choices
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley	Imagined Worlds
The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo	Friendships and Interactions
The Moccasin Maker by E. Pauline Johnson	Conflicting Cultures
Mohawk Trail by Beth Brant	Ways of Knowing
A Mom's Life by Kathryn Grody	Mothers and Mothering
The Montreal Massacre by Louise Malette	Violence
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively	Growing Old
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan	Work
Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston	Heritage
Mountain Charley; Or, The Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire by Elsa Jane Guerin	Pioneers and Seekers
A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography by Fadwa Tuqan	Trials and Adversity
Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist by Kathleen Alcal	Imagined Worlds
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie	Observations
Mute phone calls and other stories by Ruth Zernova	Places and Homes
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin	Choices
My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing by Sylvia Fraser	Trials and Adversity
My Friend Annie by Jane Duncan	Growing Up
My Mother's House / Sido by Colette	Places and Homes
My Place by Sally Morgan	Heritage
My Story by Kamala Das	Ways of Knowing
My Ántonia by Willa Cather	Pioneers and Seekers
Nampally Road by Meena Alexander	Identity
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman	Ways of Knowing
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya	Trials and Adversity
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga	Heritage
A New Home, Who'll Follow?: or Glimpses of Western Life by Caroline M. Kirkland	Pioneers and Seekers
New Islands and Other Stories by María Luisa Bombal	Imagined Worlds
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone	Conflicting Cultures
The Nocturnal Naturalist: Exploring the Outdoors at Night by Cathy Johnson	Observations
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Now in November by Josephine W. Johnson	Places and Homes
Obasan by Joy Kogawa	Heritage
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman	Ways of Knowing
The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin	Identity
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich	Mothers and Mothering
On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya	Growing Old
Once Upon an Eskimo Time by Edna Wilder	Heritage
One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens	Work
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty	Art
Or Else, the Lightning God, and Other Stories by Catherine Lim	Trials and Adversity
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn	Power
The Other Mother: A Woman's Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption by Carol Schaefer	Mothers and Mothering
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson	Trials and Adversity
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen	Places and Homes
Out of Time by Paula Martinac	Imagined Worlds
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame	Families
The Painted Alphabet by Diana Darling	Imagined Worlds
Paradise by Elena Castedo	Growing Up
Paradise of the Blind by Thu Hương Dương	Families
Passing by Nella Larsen	Choices
The Past Is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg	Trials and Adversity
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck	Growing Old
The Pegnitz Junction by Mavis Gallant	Identity
Pembroke by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
A Persian Requiem by Simin Daneshvar	Power
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard	Observations
Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish by Sue Bender	Ways of Knowing
Plaintext: Essays by Nancy Mairs	Trials and Adversity
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker	Observations
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle	Art
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker	Ethics
Possession by A. S. Byatt	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
The Potter's Field by Ellis Peters	Ethics
The Power of Horses and Other Stories by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn	Conflicting Cultures
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall	Heritage
Praxis by Fay Weldon	Mothers and Mothering
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene	Power
Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color by Carole Ione	Mothers and Mothering
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson	Families
The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray	Heritage
Purple Springs by Nellie L. McClung	Pioneers and Seekers
Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America by Mary Paik Lee	Pioneers and Seekers
Rains of Scorpions and Other Stories by Estela Portillo Trambley	Friendships and Interactions
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Real Farm by Patricia Tichenor Westfall	Ways of Knowing
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier	Trials and Adversity
Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 by Minnie Bruce Pratt	Identity
The Rector's Daughter by F. M. Mayor	Families
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams	Places and Homes
Regeneration by Pat Barker	Violence
Requiem by Shizuko Go	Ethics
The Revolution of Little Girls by Blanche McCrary Boyd	Families
Rich In Love by Josephine Humphreys	Growing Up
Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal	Friendships and Interactions
Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good by Beverly Donofrio	Mothers and Mothering
Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio by Nicholasa Mohr	Families
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta	Friendships and Interactions
River Time: The Frontier on the Lower Neuse by Janet Lembke	Places and Homes
The Riverhouse Stories: How Pubah S. Queen and Lazy LaRue Save the World by Andrea Carlisle	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway	Growing Up
Road Song by Natalie Kusz	Families
Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip	Art
The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman's Family Story by Ticasuk	Heritage
Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change by Sherna Berger Gluck	Work
Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern	Work
The Samaritan Treasure by Marianne Luban	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Sans Souci: And Other Stories by Dionne Brand	Conflicting Cultures
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange	Ways of Knowing
The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong	Conflicting Cultures
Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras: Chilean Women and the Pinochet Dictatorship by Marjorie Agosín	Violence
Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta	Trials and Adversity
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir	Ways of Knowing
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Hisaye Yamamoto	Friendships and Interactions
Seventh Garment by Eugenia Fakinou	Heritage
Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman	Conflicting Cultures
The Shawl: A Story and Novella by Cynthia Ozick	Identity
The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi	Imagined Worlds
Silences by Tillie Olsen	Art
Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood by Judith Ortiz Cofer	Growing Up
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson	Ethics
Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito by Carmen De Monteflores	Families
Sister Age by M. F. K. Fisher	Growing Old
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde	Power
Six of One by Rita Mae Brown	Families
A Small Country by Sian James	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid	Ethics
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ	Choices
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya	Power
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich	Places and Homes
Solitude by Víctor Català	Identity
Spiritual Narratives by Maria W. Stewart	Pioneers and Seekers
Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord	Heritage
Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor's Journal by Migael Scherer	Violence
The stillborn by Zaynab Alkali	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence	Growing Old
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Storm in the Village by Miss Read	Work
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner	Ethics
The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps	Art
Stradbroke Dreamtime by Oodgeroo	Places and Homes
The Straight Mind by Monique Wittig	Ways of Knowing
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith	Ethics
The Street by Ann Petry	Identity
Street Games by Rosellen Brown	Places and Homes
Sultana's Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain	Power
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle	Growing Old
Sweet Summer: Growing up with and without My Dad by Bebe Moore Campbell	Growing Up
Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku	Growing Up
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks	Ways of Knowing
Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing by Anna Lee Walters	Heritage
Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey by Lydia Minatoya	Identity
Talking to the Dead by Sylvia Watanabe	Places and Homes
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown	Power
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain	Choices
There Never Was a Once upon a Time (Discoveries) by Carmen Naranjo	Growing Up
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga	Heritage
This Child's Gonna Live by Sarah E. Wright	Trials and Adversity
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley	Families
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf	Choices
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman	Choices
The Threshing Floor: Short Stories by Barbara Burford	Power
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita	Imagined Worlds
Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson	Growing Old
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee	Ethics
Tracks by Robyn Davidson	Pioneers and Seekers
Tracks by Louise Erdrich	Heritage
Twilight and Other Stories by Shulamith Hareven	Friendships and Interactions
The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi	Growing Old
Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie	Pioneers and Seekers
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival by Velma Wallis	Growing Old
Two Women in One by Nawal El Saadawi	Choices
Typical American by Gish Jen	Ways of Knowing
The Ultraviolet Sky by Alma Luz Villanueva	Art
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe	Ethics
Various Miracles by Carol Shields	Observations
Veils: Short Stories by Nahid Rachlin	Conflicting Cultures
The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft	Power
Virginia by Ellen Glasgow	Mothers and Mothering
A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper	Ethics
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi	Choices
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer	Imagined Worlds
Walls: Resisting the Third Reich--One Woman's Story by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus	Ethics
A War of Eyes and Other Stories by Wanda Coleman	Trials and Adversity
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria	Ways of Knowing
A Weave of Women by E. M. Broner	Friendships and Interactions
Weeds by Edith Summers Kelley	Identity
A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories by Natalya Baranskaya	Work
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall	Identity
West with the Night by Beryl Markham	Pioneers and Seekers
Why Is There Salt in the Sea? by Brigitte Schwaiger	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
Why Not Me?: The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife by Wendy L. Bovard	Mothers and Mothering
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang	Mothers and Mothering
Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains by Linda M. Hasselstrom	Work
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker	Places and Homes
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy	Imagined Worlds
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston	Heritage
The Woman Who Was Not All There by Paula Sharp	Mothers and Mothering
A Woman's Civil War: A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862 by Cornelia Peake McDonald	Violence
Women and Appletrees by Moa Martinson	Work
Women in the Resistance by Margaret L. Rossiter	Pioneers and Seekers
Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh	Observations
Women of Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy by Ann Cornelisen	Places and Homes
The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness by Stephanie Golden	Power
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel	Pioneers and Seekers
Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind by Mary Field Belenky	Ways of Knowing
Women, Culture, and Politics by Angela Y. Davis	Power
Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South by Shirley Abbott	Places and Homes
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole	Pioneers and Seekers
Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory by Michelle M. Tokarczyk	Ways of Knowing
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Volume 1 by Alice Dunbar-Nelson	Wives, Lovers, and Partners
The World and the Bo Tree by Helen Bevington	Observations
Worry Girl: Stories from a Childhood by Andrea Freud Loewenstein	Identity
The Writer on Her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory by Janet Sternburg	Art
Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun	Ways of Knowing
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë	and Partners
The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Power
Yes Is Better Than No by Byrd Baylor	Violence
Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford	Conflicting Cultures
Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism by Elly Bulkin	Ways of Knowing

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