The Oxford book of women's writing in the United States

Part 1. Short fiction. Tom's husband / Sarah Orne Jewett

Tony's wife / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The revolt of "Mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman

The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

A male Magdalene, from Samantha vs. Josiah / Marietta Holley

A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin

The other two / Edith Wharton

Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto

Freedom / Nella Larsen

Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston

O yes / Tillie Olsen

A late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor

A worn path / Eudora Welty

The shawl / Cynthia Ozick

Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates

Miss Clairol / Helena María Viramontes

Recitatif / Toni Morrison

In the American society / Gish Jen

May's lion / Ursula K. Le Guin

Life in the iron-mills / Rebecca Harding Davis

Old Mrs. Harris / Willa Cather

Part 2. Poetry. Poetry from the beginning ; Contemporary poetry

Part 3. Public lives. Women and the nation ; The struggle for understanding ; From the personal to the political

Part 4. Acting out. Overtones / Alice Gerstenberg

Trifles : a play in one act / Susan Glaspell

Bitter cane / Genny Lim

Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth

Men in your life / Alice Childress

from United States / Laurie Anderson

Roslyn Malamud : the coup, from Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith

Native American ritual

Kopis'taya (a gathering of spirits) / Paula Gunn Allen

Naming power / Wendy Rose

The foot-washing / George Ella Lyon

from The women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor

The sixth work : rituals for the extended family, from Jambalaya / Luisah Teish

The ceremonies of community, from The telling / E.M. Broner

Part 5. Private lives. The republic of women's letters ; Women in the nineteenth century ; Turning the century ; Modern voices

Part 6. Bodily pleasures. Recipes ; Erotica