In this fascinating study, Rozsika Parker traces a hidden history--the shifting notions of femininity and female social roles--by unraveling the history of embroidery from medieval times until today.

The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

Arts & Photography

Rozsika Parker

History & Criticism

WOMEN\'S PRESS LTD,THE

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose

Literature & Fiction

WALKER,Alice

Essays & Correspondence

The Unbelonging

Joan Riley

The extraordinary debut short story collection from the award-winning author of Family and Life is Short But Wide.

Piece of Mine

J. California Cooper

Short Stories & Anthologies

On average, one-quarter of a woman s life between early teens and early fifties is spent menstruating. Her later adult life is shaped by the onset, presence and passing of that time loosely described as menopause. And post-menopause, her female cycles continue too. Most of us want to behave, during these times, as though nothing were happening to our bodies. But we are affected, not only by physical changes but also by a set of taboos, myths and conditioned responses, often only dimly realised. Paula Weideger makes common sense out of a mass of medical and social research and places the mystification of menstruation and menopause within an ancient historical and cross-cultural tradition. Female Cycles is a book of practical information which also makes fascinating reading. It assumes that we are interested in knowing how our bodies work; that we are interested in knowing to what extent biology does - or needs to - determine our behaviour. It invites us to reclaim menstruation and menopause and to value the rewards and minimise the discomfort of every stage of our female cycles.

Female Cycles

P. Weideger

Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American short story writers whose subjects are the duality of the Deep South and her Catholic faith. O'Connor once referred to A Good Man is Hard to Find as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events can tip over into misfortune, violence and despair.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

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Contemporary

Alberta and Freedom

C. Sandel

THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn-of-the-century America. Collected here by noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman's feminist Utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman's intellectual and creative production.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pornography and Silence

Politics & Social Sciences

GRIFFIN, SUSAN

Social Sciences

In this splendid volume we encounter a whole range of characters: the guru who preaches that 'nobody's anything'; the rich white lawyer who wants a teenage sex slave; the old comrade in anti-sexist struggle who reveals that the feminist she most admires is Scarlett O'Hara; the expert lover whose virtuosity depends on the stimulation of pornography; and the 'Emperor of Rock and Roll' whose failure to understand the songs he sings - the songs of a black woman - haunt his gold-plated but empty life.

You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down

ALICE WALKER

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