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The apparent thematic peg here is Plath's fascination with mirrors in her life and in her work. A developmental study of Plath's poetry, A Disturbance in Mirrors considers various aspects of her work: the social implications of mythic imagery in her early poems;

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Looks at the changes in women's mass circulation journals since at the end of the 19th century.

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In doing so, it clarifies her entire poetic output and illuminates her concepts of nation, the female body, power, and women's sexuality.

The volume covers the full progression of her poetry from the beginning through her most recent work.

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In the period between the Civil War and World War I, German universities provided North American women with opportunities in graduate and professional training that were not readily available to them at home.

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An examination of the volunteer efforts of black clubwomen in the National Association of Colored Women from 1896 to 1936. It explores how their work influenced the impact and direction of social services in black communities in the USA, especially during the Progressive Era.

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Most of the women described in this study were atypical biblical women. Israelite women, like women in most cultures of the world, had status principally within the home. The chapters contain biographical sketches, with comparisons to contemporary women's roles, of two dozen women.

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Expounding the view that the feminist movement has both encouraged and enriched literature by women, Katherine Payant examines a large body of popular fiction of the late 1960s through the early 1990s, relating these writers and works to the women's movement and feminist theories.

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In the recent debate over the growing poverty among blacks, attention has increasingly focused on the role of women heading households as a contributor to poverty.

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An analysis of contemporary women's mysteries featuring the modern female detective.

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Between 1900 and 1914, the British and American suffrage movements were characterized by interaction among suffragists, their organizations, and their publications on a much broader scale than has been generally recognized or acknowledged.

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Eleven of the best-known papers, written by women, for women, are analyzed here in chapters covering the women's rights press, the purpose of women's education, coeducation, women as teachers, and the professional and graduate education of women.

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While there is a predominant celebration of mobility and instability metaphors in contemporary feminist discourse, concepts of home, rest or dwelling are frequently left unproblematized and perceived as simple, static and lacking in development potential.

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Angela Thirkell wrote more than 30 comic novels that spanned the period between 1930 and 1960 in England.

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This text aims to provide a comprehensive history of women in the Virgin Islands and to analyze how the colonial relationship has shaped and continues to influence women's public and private lives. Women's lives are examined from the earliest days of the colony's settlement.

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This literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women that focuses on aging of women. This work should be well received by students and scholars engaged in the study of literary criticism, women's studies in literature, gerontology, the life-cycle in literature, and contemporary women in literature.

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This first critical treatment of Holocaust literature from a feminist perspective effectively challenges the widespread assumption that the literature of the Holocaust reflects identical experiences for both men and women.

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The non-violent tactics of the Crusaders are described, and their progression from meetings to marches and occasional political campaigning is explored, along with the responses, ranging from active support to violent opposition, that the Crusade evoked.

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Few books in this field focus solely on beauty ideals, and this volume is unique in terms of its scholarly, interdisciplinary approach. They reflect a variety of approaches to the study of feminine beauty, including philosophical, historical, sociological, cross-cultural, and empirical.

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By juxtaposing novels from different cultures, this text highlights the ways in which women renegotiate their identities at different ages and writers reconfigure novelistic forms. It discusses works by such authors as Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Keri Hulme and Doris Lessing.

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Holloway, a specialist in Black studies and psycholinguistics, and Demetrakopoulos, whose academic interests include women's studies and Jungian psychology, weave their multidisciplinary interests and divergent experience into an integrated study of Toni Morrison's novels.

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Nearly all of Laurence's works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence's innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and unique shifts in tense and point of view help her achieve vivid character portrayals.

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Only Mothers Know is a very good, indeed a consummate, summary of research, discussion, and controversy, and it is also a very levelheaded as well as compassionate appeal to common sense, to valid cultural experience, and to the realism of Third World modernization.