500 Great Books by WomenPower

30 Works 26,105 Books 610 Reviews ½ 3.9
By Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, and Holly Smith (1994)

"A reader's guide to the worlds of women's writing."

Entries are divided into the following categories: Art; Choices; Conflicting show more Cultures; Ethics; Families; Friendships and Interactions; Growing Old; Heritage; Identity; Imagined Worlds; Mothers and Mothering; Observations; Pioneers and Seekers; Places and Homes; Power; Trials and Adversity; Violence; Ways of Knowing; Wives, Lovers, and Partners; and Work. show less
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1994
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Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook (1991) by Paula Gunn Allen
The House of Ulloa (1886) by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Oroonoko (1688) by Aphra Behn
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1993) by Elaine Brown
The Threshing Floor: Short Stories (1986) by Barbara Burford
City of Kings (1960) by Rosario Castellanos
Sofia Petrovna (1965) by Lydia Chukovskaya
A Persian Requiem (1969) by Simin Daneshvar
Women, Culture, and Politics (1984) by Angela Y. Davis
The Beggars' Strike (1979) by Aminata Sow Fall
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991) by Susan Faludi
Mary Queen of Scots (1969) by Antonia Fraser
The Yellow Wallpaper {story} (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness (1992) by Stephanie Golden
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction (1991) by Melissa Fay Greene
Mean Spirit (1990) by Linda Hogan
Sultana's Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones (1988) by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996) by Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi
God bless the child (1987) by Kristin Hunter Lattany
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) by Audre Lorde
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman In Guatemala (1983) by Rigoberta Menchú
And They Didn't Die (1990) by Lauretta Ngcobo
Kelroy (1993) by Rebecca Rush
How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983) by Joanna Russ
Killing Color (1992) by Charlotte Watson Sherman
The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey
Awaiting Trespass (1985) by Linda Ty-Casper
The Living Is Easy (1948) by Dorothy West
John Dollar (1989) by Marianne Wiggins
The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Women (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft

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