Query From Darcy Martin martindj@etsu.edu 15 April 1998
We are selecting reading materials for our Introduction to Women's Studies course and have already decided to use Ehrenreich's _For Her Own Good_ and Marilyn Pearsall, ed., _Women and Values_. We've been discussing what literary work to include and I suggested that I place a query with H-Women. If you could choose only one work, what would it be? We've considered _A Handmaid's Tale_, _A Room of One's Own_, _The Yellow Wallpaper_, _Beloved_, _I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_. What are your suggestions? Thanks.
Responses:
Alcott, Louisa May _Little Women_
Allison, Dorothy _Bastard Out of Carolina_
Brown, Elaine _A Taste of Power_
Chopin, Kate _The Awakening_
Emecheta _Second Class Citizen_
Gilman, Frances Perkins _Herland_
Hansberry, Lorraine _A Raisin in the Sun_
Hurston, Zora Neale _Their Eyes Were Watching God_
Jacobs, Harriet _Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl_
Kasen, Susanna _Girl Interrupted_
Kingston, Maxine Hong "No Name Woman"
Olsen, Tillie _Silences_
Petrie, Anne _The Street_
Piercy, Marge _Small Changes_
Plath, Sylvia _The Bell Jar_
Rich, Adrienne _When We Dead Awaken_
van Gandersheim, Hrosvit _Medieval Women's Visionary Literature_ed. E.Petrof
Walker, Alice _Possessing the Secret of Joy_
Other Suggestions:
Science fiction by Joanna Russ or Octavia Butler or Sherri Tepper