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	AUTHOR	TITLE / DETAILS	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	ADELAIDE.	AUSTRALIAN WOMEN WRITERS.	Pandora	£3.95
	Debra,	A bibliographical guide. Outlining the works of over 450 women. This invaluable sourcebook outlines the lives and works of over 450 Australian women writers, and puts rare manuscript collections on the literary map for the first time. It brings to light novelist, short story writers, poets, playwrights, autobiographers, biographers, and non-fiction writers from the earliest days of white settlement to the present. It provides biographical information as well as comprehensive bibliographical details: complete listings of the authors' publications, biographical studies, the most recent and influential critical surveys of their work and manuscript locations.	Fair / Good 1988   Heavy £2 P&P (UK)   ISBN: 0-86358-149-8
	ANDERSON, FULLER, SMITH & WILKINSON Eds),	WRITING WOMEN.	Running Deer Press	£2.95
	Linda, Cynthia, Penny & Margaret,	A periodical for creative expressions in writing by women. Volume 9 No 1. Writing For Our Lives - A magazine which serves as a vessel for poems, short fiction, stories, letters, autobiographies, and journal excerpts from the life stories, experiences, and spiritua journeys of women. Includes contributions from: Penelope Shuttle, Dorothy Nimmo, Fiona Cooper, Selima Hill, Jenny Vuglar, Monica tracey, Patricia Pogson, Nadine Brummer, Liz Minnikin, Olivia Macmahon, Lisa Williams, Margaret Portch, Veronica Lloyd, Eleanor Cooke, Judith Kellgren, Carole Morin and Joanne Merrison.	Fair
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	BASSNETT.	KNIVES & ANGELS.	Zed	£4.50
	Susan Ed),	Women Writers in Latin America. This book offers insight into a range of major Latin American Women writers whose works are only just beginning to be known by English-soeaking readers. The majority of Latin American writers now well-known to the English-speaking world are men; this collection of essays from a wide range of nationalities, aims to redress the balance by instead focusing on women's writing. Included are chapters on the impact of critics such as Victoria Ocampo, who changed the face of the Latin American literary scene; on Chilean playwrights, Nicaraguan revolutionary poets, Columbian women's writing; interviews with the novelist Margo Glantz, and with the film director Maria Luisa Bemberg. Also featured are studies of such novelists as the starkly realist Elena Poniatowska, and the lyrically surrealist Maria Luisa Bombal; and an essay on Clarice Lispector by her official English language translator.	Fair / Good 1990           ISBN: 0-86232-875-6
	BATTERSBY.	GENDER AND GENIUS	The Women's Press	£4.50
	Christine,	Towards a Feminist Aesthetics. In this exciting and groundbreaking book, Christine Battersby traces the idea of genius, revealing why this precious attribute has always been an exclusively male preserve. She shows how pagan myths associated divinity with male procreativity, and how these ideas continue to bar women from the potential for creative genius today.	Mint / New 1994   ISBN: 0-7043-4300-2
	BEAUMAN.	A VERY GREAT PROFESSION	Virago	£3.25
	Nicola,	The Woman's Novel 1914 - 1939. In this book Nicola Beauman looks at women like Katherine, or like Laura, the heroine of 'Brief Encounter', women whose circumstances are generally ignored by social historians, but whose lives and habits are wonderfully recorded in the fiction of the time. Drawing on the novels to illuminate themes as varied as domestic life, romantic love, sex psychoanalysis, war and 'surplus' women, Nicola Beauman uses the work of such diverse women novelists as May Sinclair and Elinor Glyn, Rebecca West and E. M Delafield, Rosamond Lehmann and Mary Borden - and many, many more - to present a fascinating portrait, through their fiction, of middle-class Englishwomen in the period between the wars. Literature / Social History	Poor / Fair 1983       ISBN: 0-86068-309-5
	BERNIKOW.	THE WORLD SPLIT OPEN	Women's Press	£3.50
	Louise Ed,	Four Centuries of Women Poets in England & America 1552 - 1950. This anthology is essential reading for everyone interested in great poetry and women's perception. It covers four centuries during which - against every possible coercion to stop - women wrote out their lives into lines of poetry. the poets are black and white, from all economic groups, each pitted against cultural expectations of what 'womanhood' means. Many are found nowhere else: 'Here they stand in a procession that says extraordinary things to us', Louise Bernikow honours the poets she has selected with ahighly informed, witty and loving introduction. She enlightens us on their lives, on their work, on their links; she enlightens us on our history.	Fair / Good 1984   350 pages.   Heavy £2.50 P&P (UK)   ISBN: 0-7043-3832-7
	BORZELLO & LEDWIDGE.	WOMEN ARTISTS: A Graphic Guide	Camden	£3.95
	Frances & Natacha,	Everyone knows what an artist look like... a man with a velvet bow tie, a smock, paint-smattered trousers, a palette and - indispensible accessory - a sexy, nude lady model. But what about the women artists? The thousands of women who, in every place and period of history, can be found painting pictures, modelling clay or chiping away at stone? Judy Chicago, Barbara Hepworth, Berthe Morisot, Rosa Bonheur, Angelika Kauffman, Artemisia Gentileschi... Artemisia who? And that's the problem. Even the most brilliant women artists rarely became houshold names, so it seems as though they never existed. But they did. And in spite of every handicap. Women Artists: A Graphic Guide describes those handicaps - from being forbidden to draw the male nude in life class to harassment whenever they tried to paint outdoors - and explains how some women managed to overcome them. Frances Borzello lectures at the National Gallery, London and written several books. Natacha Ledwidge's illustrations have appeared in a wide range of publications.	Fair / Good 1986                 ISBN: 0-948491-05-1
	BRAXTON & McLAUGHLIN.	WILD WOMEN in the WHIRLWIND	Serpent's Tail	£6.75
	Joanne & Andree Nicola, Eds,	Afra-American Culture & the Contemporary Literary Renaissance. Today there is great interest in the writings of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou, Paule Marshall, Gayl Jones and the writings of their predecessors - Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Gwendolen Brooks. Wild Women in the Whirlwind is the first book to explore the literary and cultural traditions of these writers and to locate their work within the history of Black Women - a history rich but neglected which the contributors illuminate with moving briliance. Contributors: Angela Y Davis June Jordan Gloria I Joseph David Ames Curtis Henry Louis Gates Jr Robert J Fehrenbach Daphne Duval Harrison Billie Jean Young Regine Altagrace Latortue Calvin Hernton Barbara Smith Joanne V Gabbin Nellie Y McKay Barbara Omolade Vashti Crutcher Lewis Barbara Christian Zala Chandler Rudolph P Byrd Chinosole Gale P Jackson Forward by Audre Lorde.	Good / V Good 1990    440+ pages    RRP £12.95   Large and heavy book £3.50 P&P (UK)   ISBN: 1-85242-180-0
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	CAHILL.	WRITING WOMEN'S LIVES.	Harper Collins	£6.25
	Susan, Ed,	An Anthology of Autobiographical narratives by Twentieth Century American Women Writers. Representing fifty distinguished American women writers, this collection of autobiographical narratives reflects the diverse intersection of race, class, religion, and sexual identity as they have been experienced in every region of the United States over the course of the twentieth century. The selections showcase the common experiences of women writers as children, daughters, wives, lovers, mothers, activists, artists, travellers, and intellectuals; together they form a moving cultural history of the United States from a female perspective. Among the different voices of these accomplished prose stylists, one hears a common note of humour and irreverence, and the ring of conviction and confidence that comes from a well-forged identity. Featuring: Jane Addams Edith WHarton Charlotte Perkins Gilman Ellen Glasgow Mary Antin Florida Scott-Maxwell Louise Bogan Dorodthy day Zora Neale Hurston M F K Fisher Eudora Welty Hortense Calisher Kate Simon Lillian Hellman Tillie Olsen May Sarton Mary McCarthy Madeleine L'Engle Mary Lee Settle Eileen Simpson Denise Levertov Ann Cornelisen Maureen Howard Maya Angelou Mary Mebane Shirley Abbott Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Vivian Gornick Audre Lorde Kate Millett Joyce Johnson Joan Didion Jane O'Reilly Lucille Clifton Bebe Moore Campbell Annie Dillard Mary Crow Dog DIane Glancy Nancy Mairs Bell Hooks Niki Giovanni Patricia Hampl Natalie Kusz Beverly Donofrio Maxine Hong Kingston Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Jamaica Kincaid Sandra Cisneros Dorothy Allison Lorene Cary	Fair / Good 1994   500 pages   £3 P&P (UK)     ISBN: 0-06-096998-9
	CARTER.	THE MAGIC TOYSHOP.	Virago	£3.50
	Angela,	Literature Study book - The Student's Virago Series. The Student's Virago series aims to help put more work by and about women in the English curriculum. The series offers: Suitable titles chosen from the extensive Virago lists Introductions to the books that put writers and their work in context A wide variety of follow-on activities to support the reading of the books Angela Carter has established a reputation as a writer of intense and extraordinary tales for adults. the Magic Toyshop, with its focus on fifteen-year-old Melanie and quest for love, is also accesible to young adults. With its startlingly original style, the novel invites readers to extend their understanding of the nature and boundaries of love.	Fair 1988   ISBN: 0-09-182348-X
	CHAMBERLAIN.	WRITING LIVES.	Virago	£2.95
	Mary Ed),	Conversations between Women Writers. Collection bringing together the older generation of Virago's writers with their younger successors, who interview them, creating a wide-ranging picture of 20th-century women's writing. Novelists, journalists, poets and historians recall their childhoods and early years, and tell how the challenges and demands of everyday life interacted with their literary endeavour. Their creativity is not confined to writing, but spills over into the essence of their lives, into personal relationships, family life and politics. The voices in this book evoke a variety of cultures, classes and backgrounds and include such writers as Maya Angelou, Kathleen Dayus, Dorothy Hewett, Molly Keane, Rosamond Lehmann, Paule Marshall, Naomi Mitchison, Grace Paley, Mary Stott and Eudora Welty talking of why and when, how and where they wrote. Representing not only the range of writers published by Virago, but the tremendous variety of women's writing in this century, these memories fascinate and enlighten us in what they tell of the process of creativity. They make a valuable testament, since for some of these authors - including Phyllis Shand and Dora Russell - the interviews in this book are their last recorded statements on their life and work. (Art & Literature/Biographies/Short Stories)	Poor / Fair 1988   £1.75 P&P (UK)
	CLARK.	FEMININE BEAUTY	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	£10.00
	Kenneth,	Illustrated essay about "Female beauty" through different cultures. From Nefertiti to Virginia Woolf. A4 Size. 135 Monochrome Illustrations and 40 Colour plates.	V Good / Mint 1980 Hardback £3 P&P (UK)
	COLLINS & LINDNER.	WRITING ON THE WALL	Weidenfeld	£7.50
		Women Writer's on Women Artists.	Good / V Good 1993 £2 P&P (UK)
	COMLEY & SCHOLES.	HEMINGWAY'S GENDERS.	Yale University	£3.95
	Nancy R & Robert,	Rereading the Hemingway text. This witty and intelligent book, the first to focus exclusively on gender in Hemingway's writing, presentsa new view of the author, demonstrating that issues of gender and sexuality are more complex and subtle in his work than has ever been imagined. Nancy R Comley and Robert Scholes reread the Hemingway Text - his published and unpublished writing and what is known about his life - and show that gender was one of his conscious preoccupations.	Fair / Good 1994   ISBN: 0300064640
	CULLEY.	A DAY AT ATIME	Feminist Press	£4.75
	Margo, Ed,	The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present. Including the triumphs and tragedies of women of all ages, from diverse classs and cultures, writing about love, work, travel, war, adventure, politics etc in their own words to which is added an essay on diary literature and a biography of many hundreds of published diaries and other items of interest.	Fair / Good 1985 300+ pages Large £2.50 P&P (UK) ISBN: 0-935312-51-X
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	DINESEN.	REDISCOVERY	Women's Press	£3.50
	Betzy, Ed,	300 years of Stories by and about Women. The 22 stories in Rediscovery have been written over a period of 300 years and are structured around the life-cycle of a woman. The first story, 'Clementina', describes the relationship of an unborn child to her mother. Those which follow are of childhood and adolescence, then women reaching maturity with varied experiences of maternity, marriage, sexuality and celibacy. The closing stories give us women in their old age. The stories enable us to rediscover the perception of women writers, past and present, showing how these women responded to the restrictions and expolited the opportunities - literary and social - of their age. The authors include: Henry Handel Richardson, Alix Kates Shulman, Aphra Behn, Janet Frame, Margaret Oliphant, Sarah Orne Jewett and many more. What they hold in common, in addition to their sex, is an ability to tell a fine story which highlights specifically female experience: biological detiny and women's reaction to it, social conditioning, repression and revolt.	Fair / Good 1981
	DOYLE.	THE A-Z of NON-SEXIST LANGUAGE.	Women's Press	£3.50
	Margaret,	Definitive Guide to Non-sexist language. Bringing today's vocabulary completely up-to-date, here is a definitive guide to non-sexist language. This straightforward and easy-to-use handbook offers: a complete listing of sexist words and their non-sexist alternatives. vital clarification of common-usage words, outlinging fully why some words are sexist and some are not. accessible A-Z format. full cross referencing. unique and comprehensive, the A-Z of Non-sexist Language is an essential reference for writers, speakers, editors, teachers and all who care about the words they use.	Mint / As New 1997      ISBN: 0-7043-4430-0
	DUDOVITZ.	THE MYTH OF SUPERWOMAN.	Routledge	£4.50
	Resa L,	Women's bestsellers in France and the United States. The book presents a general analysis of women's bestsellers, ranging over a wide variety of novels, from popular nineteenth-century texts in France and the United States to novels of today. Dudovitz shows how women's bestselling fiction has, over the last two hundred years, kept pace with the social evolution of contemporary women, culminating in the myth of superwoman in women's bestsellers of the 1980s. This fascinating account of an important aspect of popular culture will be of great value to students of women's studies and cultural studies, especially those interested in the myths which structure women's bestselling fiction.	Fair / Good 1990     ISBN: 0-415-03187-7
	DuPLESSIS.	THE PINK GUITAR.	Routledge	£4.95
	Rachel Blau,	Writing as Feminist Practice. DuPlessis is concerned with the depiction of women and the uses to which culture has put the female figure; at the same time she asks how a woman artist can make a place for herself among these gender-intensive representations. She treats the work of William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp as paradigmatic of the most innovative of male modernists, finding their tactics compromised by their gender ideologies, which she explores with nuance. DuPlessis turns to a number of modern and contemporary women writers (notaly HD and Virginia Woolf, as well as Susan Howe and Beverly Dahlen) to explore the possibilities of finding a language, and a set of cultural stances, which would rupture the most deeply held assumptions about gender. The whole tradition of the writing of poetry and fiction DuPlessis argues, has colonised female figures, yet women writers have considerable force: the woman writer is a power in her own work, but an artifact in the tradions of meaning on which she draws. Making of representation itself a site of struggle, DuPlessis's own porouls, self-questionaing text presents itself as an example of the cultural disturbance she evokes.	Fair / Good 1990       ISBN: 0-415-90192-8
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	EVANS.	BLACK WOMEN WRITERS	Pluto	£3.75
	Mari, Ed,	Arguments and Interviews. The international recognition due to US black women writers is now being given. Alice Walker's winning of the Pulitzer Prize ackowledges what many already know - that the particular experience of black women gives their writing a voice of it's own. The interviews and arguments in 'Black Women Writers' gives moving insights into the personal and political world from which that experience comes. "I write because I am a black woman, listening attentively to her talking people". - Maya Angelou. Includes: Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Alice Childress, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Lucille Clifton, Mari Evans, Sonia Sanchez, Margaret Walker, Paule Marshall, Carolyn Rodgers, Gayl Jones,Toni Morrison.	Fair / Good 1985    Heavy £2.50 P&P (UK)
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	FELSKI.	BEYOND FEMINIST AESTETICS.	Radius	£5.95
	Rita,	Feminist Literature and Social Change. This book has a dual ficus. First, Rita Felski guives a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory. Second, she offers an analysis of contemporary fiction by genres of the autobiographical confession and the novel of self-discovery in order to show that this literature raises questions for feminism that cannot be answered solely in terms of gender. The author argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue that feminists have needlessly pursued; she suggests, iin contrast, that it is impossible to speak of 'masculine' and 'feminine', 'subversive' and 'reactionary' literary forms in isolation from the social conditions of their production. The value of such works from the standpoint of feminism can be determined only by an investigation of their social effects in relation to the interests of women in a particular historical context.	Good / V Good 1989     Large £2 P&P (UK)   ISBN: 0-09-174098-3
	Feminist Anthology Collective Eds),	NO TURNING BACK.	Women's Press	£3.95
		Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement 1975-80 No Turning Back  is a major event, bringing together a broad cross-section of writings from the women's liberation movement for the first time in seven years. The book contains the work of activists from varying political positions within the movement and shows the intermingling of practical and theoretical questions. Among topics covered are sex and class, male violence, work, women and the state, health, culture.	Fair / Good 1981     ISBN:0-7043-387-3-4
	FERRIER.	THE JANET FRAME READER.	Women's Press	£4.50
	Carole Ed),	Janet Frame is without doubt one of the most exceptional writers of our time. She is the author of ten outstanding novels including 'Owls Do Cry', 'Faces in the Water' and 'Living in the Maniototo: a collection of poetry': and, of course, her famed three-volume work of autobiograhy described by Michael Holroyd as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century'. Now literary critic Carole Ferrier draws together the many threads of Janet Frame' brilliant career. Through extracts from her fiction, autobiography, poetry and prose, she offers both a superb showcase of writing and invaluable new insights into this remarkable writer's work.	Good / V Good 1995   ISBN: 0-7043-4434-3
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	GADON.	THE ONCE & FUTURE GODDESS.	Thorsons	£9.50
	Elinor W,	A Sweeping Visual Chronicle of the Sacred Female and Her Reemergence in the Cultural Mythology of Our Time. A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men. In this beautifully illustrated and far-reaching history, Elinor Gadon vividly weaves words and images to demonstrate the powerful connections between ancient and contemporary art, between the Goddess of the Ice Age and the Goddess of today. This panoramic view of Goddess imagery extends from the prehistoric Goddess representations of Catal Huyuk, Malta, Avebury, and Crete, to more patriarchal images of the Sumerians, Greeks, and Christians, to the wide range of contemporary artists inspired by the Goddess, including Frida Kahlo, Mayumi Oda, and Judy Chicago.	Good / V Good 19   Large / Heavy £3.50 P&P (UK)     ISBN:
	GORDIMER.	THE ESSENTIAL GESTURE.	Penguin	£3.75
	Nadine,	Writing, Politics and Places. In this eloquent and powerful collection of essays, Nadine Gordimer examines her life and art, the turbulent history of her country, and the ways in which political struggle is the inescapable subject of the South African writer. These pieces record the shaping of Gordimer's ideas and convictions over the course of almost thirty years. They also include vivid, insightful travel pieces that tell of Egypt, the Congo river, and Madagascar, and compelling portraits of the Communist Afrikaner Bram Fischer and the black writer Nat Nakasa.	Good / V Good 1989     ISBN: 0-1401-2212-5
	GORNICK.	THE END OF THE NOVELOF LOVE.	Virago	£4.95
	Vivian,	In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick examines a century of novels and love-in-the-western-world in which authors have portrayed romantic love as an emblem of the search for self-understanding and self-discovery. However, today, Gornick argues, love as a literary metaphor is no longer apt - such has the nature of love and romance and marriage changed. Gornick traces this progress of realism through the lives and works of celebrated authors such as Willa Cather, Jean Rhys, Christina Stead, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, and others shows us how novels have increasingly questioned the inevitability of tender romantic love and marriage as the path to self-knowledge and fulfilment. Today, love as metaphor is an act of nostalgia, not of discovery.	Good / V Good 1999         ISBN: 1-86049-646-6
	GREEN.	CHANGING THE STORY.	Indiana	£5.95
	Gayle,	Feminist Fiction and the Tradition. Changing the Story argues that the feminist fiction movement of the 1960s - 1980s was and is as significant a movement as Modernism. Focusingon the fiction of Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence, Gayle Green finds the beginning of this feminist literary explosion in the second women's movement. She argues that these four authors represent major breakthroughs in terms of narrative form and social content.	Fair / Good 1991   Large £2.50 P&P (UK) ISBN: 0-253-20672-3
	GRIFFIN.	DIFFERENCE IN VIEW.	Taylor & Francis	£5.95
	Gabriele Ed),	Women and Modernism. Difference in view challenes the definitions and boundaries of 'high' modernism; its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as 'race', class and gender, and its exclusive focus on predominantly male writers, poetry and prose fiction. The book presents a diversity of cultural production, including discussions on the work of women who painted and produced theatre work in this period, and whose work, precisely because it interrogates the boundaries of high modernism, has been marginalised within it. The writings, painting and photography of Leonora Carrington and Susan Hiller, the theatre of Gertrude Stein and the work of black women writers of the early twentieth century such as Nella Larsen are all relevant to and produced in the modernist period. OSme of the work discussed has recently resurfaced at exhibition and galleries, reclaiming cultural space. In discussing the cultral production of such women, the book investigates how women, usually constructed as 'other', themselves construct others in their work. The usual emphasis on the isolated self is undercut in favour of a 'fluid' self which is celebrated rather than a source of anxiety. The essays invite questions about intersexual relationahips during this time, and point to a feminist aesthetic which constitutes and displays a difference to conventional conceptualizations of male modernist cultural production.	Fair / Good   1994               ISBN: 0-7484-0135-0
	GRIFFIN.	MADE FROM THIS EARTH	Women's Press	£3.50
	Susan,	Selections from her writing. There are many voices in this book - reflective, analytical, polemic, poetic - yet all are the voices of a woman attempting to discover, in both personal and cultural terms, how fragmentation can be replaced by wholeness. In this selection from her own writing over the past fifteen years, most of it never before published in Britain, the distinguished American poet and feminist Susan Griffin explores the difficulties of eing a woman and a writer in a society which sets up rigid barriers between mind and body, politics and art, male and female, nature and culture. How, she asks, cam women feel at home in a world where sex is too often equated with violence, where tenderness is called soft-mindedness, and where 'women and children come last'?	Fair 1982   Heavy £2 P&P (UK)
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	HACKER.	13TH MOON : DOUBLE ISUE	Moon	£3.00
	Marilyn Ed,	A Feminist Literary Magazine - 'Working-Class Experience'. Vol VII - Numbers 1&2. 13th moon is particularly proud to publish this special double issue on the working-class experience. Our magazine was originally conceived of and founded by working-class women; working-class women have always been a source of our strength and support. The working-class in the United States includes people of many traditions, races, languages and histories; readers will find more than a few, though necessarily not all, of them represented here. The forms our artists chose are as varied as the stories they have to tell, personal and family history taking their places alongside poetry and fiction, the written text itself sometimes establishing a dialogue between generations. We are fortunate, also, in having two accounts of working-class women's lives in Brazil, one in the first quarter of the century and one in the present, both translated especially for this issue of 13th moon.	Fair / Good 1983
	HARTLEY.	MILLIONS LIKE US.	Past Times	£5.95
	Jenny,	British Women's Fiction of the econd World War. As 'millions like us' responded to the demands and challenges of the Second World War, women's fiction too rise to the occasion. The dramatic changes in women's lives, the strange gains, inevitable strains and ineffaceable wounds, found their way into the fiction of the time. Jenny Hartley's lively account covers a wide range of women writers, from the famous - Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Olivia Manning - to the lesser known. With Millions Like US, Jenny Hartley offers an eloquent and significant contribution to our knowledge and appreciation of this extraordinary period.	Fair / Good 1997   Large £2.75 P&P (UK)     ISBN: 1-86049-080-8
	HEALY.	WOMEN.	Longman	£3.25
	Maura,	A collection of writings by women about women, with a sequence of photographs. Includes Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate Chopin, Janice Elliott, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Sheila Rowbotham and Fay Weldon. (Stories - Various / Women's Studies - Art & Literature)	Fair / Good 1984
	HEILBRUN.	WRITING A WOMAN'S LIFE.	Women's Press	£3.95
	Caroline G,	Her groundbreaking study of women's lives in literature. There are an increasing number of biographies and autobiographies of women. And novels that describe women's lives. But how much do these reflect the real lives of women, and how much are the authors concerned with having to show women in a conventional or acceptable light? For Carolyn Heilbrun, May Sarton's 'Journal of a Solitude' marked a watershed in writing about women's lives because it was not a narrative of romantic love leading to marriage and because it reflectied emotions such as powerful anger previously eradicated from accounts of women's lives. With fascinating insights into the lives of unconventional women such as Virginia Woolf, Colette, George Sand, George Eliot, Dorodthy L Sayers, Adrienne Rich and many more Carolyn Heilbrun examines how their stories have been distorted by assumptions about women and charts the development of writing about women's lives. Writing a woman's life is a landmark in literary criticsim and an exciting read.	Mint / As New 1997               ISBN: 0-7043-4529-3
	HENDERSON & PEARLMAN.	A VOICE OF ONE'S OWN	Houghton	£3.75
	Katherine & Mickey,	Conversations with America's Writing Women. In this lively and engaging collection of conversational profiles, twenty-eight powerful vopices reflect on what inspires, directs, infuriates, and sustains them. The writers featured range in age from thirty-two to ninety and represents a cross section that encompasses differences in race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and lifestyle. In addition to well-known authors, A Voice of one's own introduces some less familiar writers of growing prominence whom readers will want to discover on their own. Loiuse Erdrich on chronicling family myth Diane Johnson on the role of memory in fiction M F K Fisher on the difficulty if writing for magazines Gloria Naylor on the awakening of her ethnic identity Amy Tan on the differences between male and female writers.	Fair / Good 1990                 ISBN: 0-395-59972-5
	HERMAN & SPITZ,	GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS of the 20TH CENTURY	Pergammon	£3.95
	Elizabeth Rutschi & Edna Huttenmaier Eds),	The twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an outstanding group of women writers who deserve to be better known in the English speaking world. This volume introduces the English speaking reader to authors whose works have not previously been available in translation or which are out of print and difficult to locate. The shprt stories included in this anthology provide an insight into the literary achievments of these women and gove some impression of the great variety and scope of their work which describes amongst other subjects, persecution by the Nazis, political guilt after the war and the position and experience of women in German society. Each of the stories is prefaced by a biographical sketch and notes on the works of the author and the book includes an exclusive introduction to the general history and development of literature by women writing in German. A selected bibliography gives the reader guidelines for further study in the field.	Fair / Good 1978         Large £1.50 P&P (UK) ISBN: 0-08-021828-8
	HOFFMAN	RESEARCH for WRITERS	Black	£3.75
	Ann,	Now established as an essential Reference work, this book offers a wealth of sound advice and solid information for all writers and journalists. The third edition has been fully updated, revised and considerably expanded. Contents include trhe following: organisation and methods of research; sources of information and their location; factual and historical research; research for fiction writers and dramatists; biography; family and local history; geneaology, picture reasearch and translation; information from foreign sources; and the preparation of a typescript for the press. Ann Hoffman established a research service for authors in 1966, and she now comebines researching for others with writing her own books.	Fair / Good 1987       ISBN: 0-7136-2811-1
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	KENYON.	WOMEN WRITERS TALK.	Lennard	£7.50
	Olga,	Interviews with 10 women writers. At a time when fiction written by women is at its most exciting, more and more readers are enjoying the achievment of writers as disparate as Iris Murdoch; Fay Weldon; Michele Roberts and P D James. Women writers are now able to explore themes of realism and fantasy, tragedy and irony, In a way that reaches more readers then ever. Olga Kenyon's collection of interviews with ten leading women writers takes us closer than ever before to the mind of the creative artist. Based on over eight hours of conversation her interview established a particular rapport with the writers she chose to meet, and by allowing her subjects great freedom in the choice of material that they discussed, Olga Kenyon shrea with us both their aiims and aspirations for their own work and their views on fiction in a wider context. Olga Kenyon has deliberately avoided imposing a particular creed upon her subjects. Her intention from the first was to give her subjects that freedom to reveal themselves most fully. As a result, every devotee of modern fiction will find an insight into the working of the creative mind. Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Alice Thomas Ellis, Eva Figes, Nadine Gordimer, P D James, Iris Murdoch, Michele Roberts, Emma Tennant and Fay Weldon.	Fair / Good 1989       Hardback       ISBN: 1-85291-043-7
	KERRIGAN.	AN ANTHOLOGY OF SCOTTISH WOMEN POETS.	Edinburgh	£5.95
	Catherine Ed),	Over a hundred poets are brought together in this unique anthology, demonstrating the scope and depth of a previoulsy undocumented poetic tradition among Scottish women writers. The collection contains a wide range of work, from the Middle Ages to the present day, in Gaelic, Scots and English, as forgotten or undiscovered poets take their place beside the well-established. Catherine Kerrigan's introduction provides the background and context to the different traditions in Scotland including the oral/ballad, Gaelic bardic and modern traditions, and attempts to identify recurring themes in this 'women's tradition'. There are parallel translations by Meg Bateman of the Gaelic poems. Brief biographies and bibliographies of the poets are given. Challenging current notions of Scottish literary history this book gives a firm foundation for future research as well as being of tremendous interest to the general reader. (Women's Studies - Art & Literature / Short Stories - Various).	V Good / Mint 1993     366 pages Large £1.75 P&P (UK)       ISBN:
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	LAMBTON.	STEALING THE SHOW	McGill-Queens	£4.95
	Gunda,	Seven women Artists in Canadian Public Art. Stealing the Show pays tribute to a new "Group pf Seven" in the art world. Focusing on art commisioned for display in public places, Lambton highlights the artistic achievments of seven prominent Canadian women artists: Marcelle Ferron, Anne Kahane, Rita Letendre, Gathie Falk, Joyce Wieland, Jerry Grey, and Colette Whiten. Traditionally, few women artists in Canada have been commissioned to create public works iin art; the exceptions were the seven artists above, who received most of the commissions awarded to women between 1958 and 1988. The sizeable body of works they have created has received little attention, but Lambton remedies this. Taking into account that the purpose of public art is to enhance the environment and communicate with a public often perplexed and sometimes alienated by works of art, she assesses the appeal and quality of commissioned works by these artists.	Fair / Good 1994     RRP £14.95     ISBN: 0-7735-1189-X
	LYNN.	SOPHIE VON LA ROCHE: The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim.	Pickering	£6.00
	James, Ed & Introduction), Translated by Joseph Collyer.	Lady Sophia Sternheim was the first novel by a German woman writer to appear in print. A psychologically intense drama of the struggle of a young country woman to live virtuously in the face of malevolent intrigues of family, friends and lovers, it became an icon for young writers of the 'storm and stress' generation of the late eighteenth century. Goethe admired it and wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther under it's influence. With its message of the triumph of truth and virtue over self-love, this novel stands as one of the great works of the Age of Sentiment.	Mint / New 1991   Hardback   ISBN: 1-85196-021-X
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	MAHL & KOON,	THE FEMALE SPECTATOR	Feminist Press	£3.95
	Mary R & Helen Eds),	English Women Writers before 1800. Were there any female writers before 1800? Most anthologists hevn't thought so, but the editors of this volume have mined a rich lode of material written by women between 1350 and 1800 - diaries, devotional treaties, travel sketches, speeches, poems, stories, and letters - much of it never before published. Among the better-known included here are Catherine Parr, Elizabeth 1, and Aphra Behn, but it is perhaps the more oscure writers - such as essayist Bathsua Makin, playwright Susannah Centlivre, and poet Mary Sidney Herbert - who are most striking as eloquent literary talents.	Fair / Good 1977 Heavy £2 P&P (UK)   ISBN: 0-253-32166-2
	MARKEY.	A JOURNEY INTO THE RED EYE	Women's Press	£
	Janice,	The Poetry of Sylvia Plath - A Critique. OUT OF STOCK - SORRY!
	MARKEY.	A JOURNEY INTO THE RED EYE	Women's Press	£3.95
	Janice,	The Poetry of Sylvia Plath - A Critique. Thoroughly researched and very accessible study into this important poet's life proves, perhaps for the very first time, that Plath was not the narcissistic and obsessive victim that she is too often portrayed as being. A gifted and successful poet, Sylvia Plath is less known for being a staunch and tireless champion of the vulnerable and underprivileged, who found herself subsequently derided and expolited for these efforts - by the very worst excesses of what was to become an increasingly destructive patriarchal culture. Going far beyond all the conventional limitations of biographical criticism scholar Janice Markey presents the 'other woman' behind the sensational characterisation that hounded this sensitive woman; that of Sylvia Plath, a true feminist visionary in her work, in her personal life and in her hopes for society.	Mint / New 1993           ISBN: 0-7043-4316-9
	MILLER.	WOMEN WRITING ABOUT MEN	Virago	£3.75
	Jane,	Study with new perspectives on woman and men and on writing. This fascinating book is about novels by women and about the men in them. it is also about women reading, and the sense we make of other women's accounts of the world. Its focus is the novel as a form which women writers, from the early nineteenth century to the present day, have used to question and challenge men's appropriation of women's experience, and to explore their own perspectives on men as husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and lovers. Drawing on the works of writers from Jane Austen, the Brontes and George Eliot, to Dorothy Lessing, Christina Stead, Angela Carter, Alice Walker and many more, Jane Miller's exciting and original study offers important new perspectives on women and men and on writing.	Good / V Good 1994       RRP £9.99   ISBN: 0-86068-478-4
	MILLER & SWIFT.	THE HANDBOOK OF NON-SEXIST WRITING.	Women's Press	£3.50
	Casey & Kate,	For Writer's, Editor's and Speakers. Easy to use companion and handbook for any journalist, writer, editor, teacher, speaker and lover of the English language. The use of 'man' as a false generic, in cliches and other common expressions. the use of 'man' as a sufifix, prefix or verb. the pronoun problem and finding your way around 'he', 'she', 'they', and 'it'. sexist generalisations and sex-linked descriptions, from 'housewife' to 'womanly'. outdated names, titles and catagories. Third edition fully revised and updated.	Mint / As New   1995           ISBN: 0-7043-4442-4
	MILLS.	WOMANWORDS	Virago	£3.50
	Jane,	A Vocabulary of Culture and Patriarchal Society. A completely new kind of dictionary. What do beaver, cheesecake, nag, honey, moll, skirt, mutton and fish havein common? How did 'cherry', once a term of endearment for a woman, become a euphemism for the hymen and a female virgin? Did you know that 'hussy' is an abbreviation of housewife? In 'Womanwords', some 300 woman-related key words have been seleected, their origins traced to revealed how, over time, meanings have been altered, redifined, influenced and confused. Using the most ingenious verbal detective work, the whole gives a remarkable picture of how women have been defined through the ages. With its extensive cross-referencing and comprehensive bibliography, this elegant, scholarly book opens up a whole new world for anyone interested in language and the relations between women and men.	Good / V Good 1991           ISBN: 1-85381-274-9
	MOERS.	LITERARY WOMEN	Women's Press	£3.50
	Ellen,	Study of the tradition of Female writing. The major achievment of Literary Women, delight and stimulation apart, is to show how poets, novelists and belle-lettrists have established a literary female tradition; that traditionally female experiences such as childbirth, the burning desire for economic independence, the living of intimate slavery, are transformed into works as brilliant and diverse as 'Frankenstein', 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'The Waves'. Ellen Moers triumph is to prove that great art is not necessarily founded in a transcendence of sexualtiy, but can be rooted in the conflicts which lived female experience has provided throughout history.	Fair / Good 1976       ISBN: 0-7043-3825-4
	MORGAN.	THE YEARS BETWEEN	Virago	£4.50
	Fidelis,	Plays by Women on the London Stage 1900 - 1950. Following 'The Female Wits', her second successful collection of six Restoration plays, Fidelis Morgan now presents the work of West End women playwrights from the early part of the century. Here is the suffragette Cicely Hamilton's spirited Diana of Dobson's (1908), and Clemence Dane's daringly theatrical Will Shakespeare - an invention (1921). Margaret Kennedy's adaption of her own novel, The Constant Nymph (1926) which speaks colourfully for the flapper generation, is followed by Daphne du Maurier's post-war drama The Years Between (1945). The final play Black Chiffon (1949) by Lesley Storm is an intriguing psychological domestic drama. These five plays are complemented by revue sketches by Hermione Gingold, Nina Warner Hooke and DIana Morgan from various shows performed between 1939-45. With introductions and biographies by actress and author Fidelis Morgan and preface by Susannah York, The Years Between is a treasure trove for actress and readers alike.	Good / V Good 1994             ISBN: 1-85381-620-5
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	NASTA.	MOTHERLANDS.	Women's Press	£4.75
	Susheila Ed),	Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia. 'Motherlands' is the first critical anthology to link black women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia. The eighteen contributors re-examine the mythology of 'motherland' already well explored in feminist literary debate, applying these ideas for the first time to a burgeoning post-colonial literature. The writers covered include Ama Ata Aidoo, Ranjana Ash, Elleke Boehmer, Jane Bryce-Okunlola, Abena Busia, Shirley Chew, Carolyn Cooper, Anita Desai, Margaret M Dunn, Elaine Savory Fido, Lorna Goodison, Bessie Head, Lyn Innes, Helen Kanitkar, Valerie Kibera, Ann R Morris, Jane Newman, Laura Niesen de Abruna, Flora Nwapa, Velma Pollard, Jean Rhys, Joan Riley, Caroline Rooney, Olive Senior, Nayantara Sahgal, Nawal el Sa'adawi and Isabel Carrera Suarez. Each is considered both within her own 'mother-culture' and alongside her iterary sisters worldwide.  Black women's writing has won its own readership over recent decades - with little helpfrom university courses or literary journals. 'Motherlans' confirms these writers' relationship with a maturing tradition and gives them the critical recognition they have long deserved.	Fair 1991               ISBN: 0704342693
	NUNN.	CANVASSING	Camden	£3.95
	Pamela Gerrish Ed),	Recollections by 6 Victorian Women Artists. Anna Mary Howitt, Anna Lea Merritt, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, Henrietta Ward, Louise Jopling Estella Starr Canziani In this fascinating book, six women artists of the nineteenth century speak in their own voices about the problems and pleasures of painting in the years between 1850 and 1900. Selected and edited by Pamela Gerrish Nunn, this anthology of women artists' recollections provides a picture of the Victorian art world from the women's point of view, a point of view too often overlooked in conventional histories of art. In her knowledgeable introduction, the editor shows how these artsits' attempts to negotiate the nineteenth century art world have many parallels with the situation today. the differing ways in which they write about their art, their experiences, their men and their marriages offer startling insights into women and art question of the second half of the nineteenth century. In writing their life stories, these women were 'canvassing' for recognition of their position as artists. The voices of the artists heard in this book fill in one of history's blanks and offer a corrective to the view of art as a mainly masculine affair. Pamela Gerrish Nunn, a lecturer in art hostry,is active in the women's movement and has contributed articles to feminist Art News and Women's Art Journal.	Fair / Good 1986                         ISBN: 0-948491-01-9
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	OWEN.	PUBLISHING : THE FUTURE	Peter Owen	£3.25
	Peter Ed),	By Leading Publishers. Book publishing today is the subject of much discussion and controversy. This book, with contributions by a number of leading publishers, helps to clarify the situation and covers a wide range of topics, including: the role of the independent publisher and the development of the conglomerates; the state of hardback and paperback publishing; illustrated books; children's books; academic publishing; new technology; feminist publishing; the role of editors; rights sales and the importance of books in cultural interchange; and the relationship between booksellers and publishers. Also discussed is the future of books as a medium and of writers, both new and established, with special reference to under-funded libraries, smaller sales and rising costs. Essential reading for all those who work in the book trade, including librarians, and those who plan to make a career in publishing.	Fair / Good 1988               ISBN: 0-7206-0721-3
	OSTRIKER.	STEALING THE LANGUAGE.	Women's Press	£4.50
	Alicia Suskin,	The emergence of Women's Poetry iin America. In this exciting and important new book, the American poet and scholar Alicia Suskin Ostriker argues that throughout most of our history the woman writer has had to state her self-definitions in code: to disguise passion as piety, rebellion as obedience. Women poets have been excluded from the 'mainstream' even more than the novelists. Yet today, the author detects in the work of poets as diverse as Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, May Sarton and Adrienne Rich a female-rooted movement that is challenging, and changing, the history of American poetry. And thus all poetry written in the English language. Art & Literature - Literary criticism / Poetry / Women's Studies	Fair / Good 1987   300+ pages Heavy £2 P&P (UK)
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	PEARLMAN.	A PLACE CALLED HOME.	St. Martins	£4.50
	Mickey Ed),	Twenty Writing Women Remember. The word 'home' means something different to each of us. Mickey Pearlman has gathered together a group of writing women whose memories of 'home' present a panorama of experience: Sandra Benitez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Morris, Kathryn Harrison, Francine Prose, Arlene Hirschfelder, Erica Jong, Jill McCorkle, Melinda Worth Popham, Julie Smith, Lucille Clifton, Dani Shapiro, Marcie Hershman, Meg Pel, Carole Maso, Rosellen Brown, Jane Shapiro, Sylvia Watanabe, and Lios Lowry. These writers look back to a place that sometimes appears as solid and unyielding as a place of granite, but is actually as vital and elusive as a heartbeat. They remember firstborn children, destructive fires, homelessness, cherished workplaces, the sting of racism, and the safety of language while they dream again of the smell of rising bread, the sound of a daughter's voice, and the scent of wet morning grass. A collection of original writing that you will sherish, give to others, and come to regard not only as a book, but as a letter from a friend.	Good / V Good 1996 Hardback             ISBN: 0-312-12793-6
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	REILLY.	SCARS UPON MY HEART.	Virago	£1.75
	Catherine Ed),	Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War. This, the first anthology of women war poets for over 60 years, will come as a surprise to many. It shows, for example, that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sasson, and that the view of 'the women at home', ignorant and idealistic, was quite false. Many of these poems come out of direct experiences of nursing the victims of trench warfare, or the pain of lovers, brothers, sons lost. Some of the poets are well known: Nancy Cunard, Rose Macauley, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, Edith Nesbit, Edith Sitwell, Marie Stopes, Katherine Tynan; others will be less familiar. But here, as elsewhere, 'the poetry is in the pity' - a moving record of women's experience of war.	Fair / Good 1989 Ex-Library
	RICH.	WHAT IS FOUND THERE.	Virago	£5.95
	Adrienne,	Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. In this beautiful and fierce book, Adrienne Rich shows us how clearly the world of poetry illuminates politics, race, gender and transactions of daily life. A garland of meditations upon poets and their visions, on meaning, form and language, on autobiography and dreams, this collection is compassionate and rigorous, visionary and intellectual and, above all, compulsively readable. Rich enables eachh of us to eschew cynicism and fear and encounter the modern world with affirmation.	Mint / As New 1995 RRP £10.99
	RUOTOLO.	THE INTERRUPTED MOMENT	Stanford	£4.50
	Lucia P,	A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels. This important pioneering study of eight of Woolf's novels derives from a sense of her 'rhythm of broken sequence'; her characters who are open to interruption are also open to the 'aesthetic of disjunction situated at the heart of human inrplay', while those not so open succumb to 'self-supporting insularity'. Sensitively tying in biography with analysis, Ruotolo sheds considerable light on the novels (The Voyage Out, Night & Day, Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years, and Between the Acts)... Ruotolo reads Woolf closely, carefully, and astutely, and his analysis necessarily affects all subsequent work on Woolf; he writes clearly and persuasively, and he offers substantial support for his conclusions from Woolf's diaries and letters - P. Schlueter, Choice	Good / V Good 1986     £2 P&P (UK)   ISBN: 0-8047-1523-8
	RUSS.	HOW TO SUPRESS WOMEN'S WRITING	Women's Press	£3.50
	Joanna,	Examination and celebration of women's writing. Joanna Russ reveals how women's literary tradition has been systematically belittled in the past and how the prejudices that drove George Eliot and the Brontes to disguise themselves behind male pseudonyms are still alive and well today. This is a provocative survey of the forces at work against women writers, a scathing indictment of critics like Anthony Burgess who declared 'I can gain no pleasure from serious writing... that lacks a strong male thrust'. But how to suppress women's writing is also a celebration of women's impressive literary heritage. Restoring women's writing to its true context within an independent tradition. Joanna Russ analyses how (and why) women's writing is now breaking exciting new ground in content and style.	Fair / Good 1994       ISBN: 0-7043-3932-3
	RUSSELL.	THE DORA RUSSELL READER	Pandora	£3.25
	Dora,	57 years of writing and journalism 1925- 1982. Dora Russell is one of the most remarkable women of this century. her extraordinary life and work can now be appreciated in this, the first collection of her writins and journalism. A pioneer in the campaign for birth control in the 1920s and 1930s, her first book (reprinted here in full) was Hypatia, an argument for sexual freedom for women. In the 1920s she travelled to post-revolutionary Russia, and then, with her husband Betrand Russell, to China. With Russell, she started a progressive school which she continued to run after Russell and she parted. In Defence of Children (1932), also included here, outlines her ideas on education. Dora Russell has campaigned tirelessly for peace since the first world war. In the 1950s she took the women's Caravan of Peace to Eastern Europe. In the 1980s she is active as ever, as her passionate 1982 article on 'The challenge to humanism' in the nuclear age demonstrates. This book introduces a new generation to the powerful mix of intellect and compassion in the work of this courageous woman.	Fair / Good 1983               ISBN: 0-86358-020-3
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	SCAFE.	TEACHING BLACK LITERATURE	Virago	£3.25
	Suzanne,	In examining the role of literature in a multicultural curriculum Suzanne Scafe chellenges the literary tradition in education and the criteria by which texts enter that tradition. She argues for the urgent need to review the early initiates within the education system which promoted the change from a mono-cultural approach in teaching to a multicultural approach, and discusses how these strategies for change are flawed: for example, it is not enough to introduce a few Black textx in what is little more than a tokenistic gesture. This becomes for Black students an experience of being patronised by the school, the curriculum and the teachers. Suzanne Scafe stresses how crucial the task is for edcationalists to ensure that Black writing is valued critically: that it is read, both as a cultural and artistic whole and as a reflection of the political and cultural struggles which give it its context. The Education Series - written by teachers and researchers.	Good / V Good 1989         ISBN: 1-85381-071-1
	SCHIPPER.	UNHEARD WORDS.	Allison & Busby	£3.95
	Mineke Ed),	Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, the Ccaribbean and Latin AMerica. Throughout the world womena re writing creatively about their experience, though in many cases for many reasons their literature remains a vast untapped source of unheard words. This book provides a provocative and stimulating introduction to that increasingly vociferous achievment. The book is divided geographicallyinto five main regions: Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. Each contributorlooks at the literary traditions, the cultural and social background of the women writers, and the many problems they face, especially in cultures where literature in general and criticism in particular are dominated by men. Each secsection is prefaced by a revealing selection of proverbs and includes a major interview with one writer. The writers interviewed are Miriam Tlali (South Africa), Etel Adnan (Lebanon), Nabaneeta Deb-Sen (India), Astrid Roemer (Surunam) and Christina Peri Rossi (Uruguay).	Fair / Good 1985     ISBN: 0-85031-639-1
	SELLERS.	DELIGHTING THE HEART.	Women's Press	£3.75
	Susan,	A Notebook by Women Writers. Seventeen of the world's most famous women - poets, novelists, playwrights - reveal their approach to the fine and difficult art of writing. Talking with candour and warmth about how they began to write, how they approach a new piece of work and how they develop it. From first idea to publication of a finished piece, they offer examples form their own work that afford an invaluable insight into the difficultie and the joys of writing. A fascinating and inspiring book, valuable to scholars and critics, to other writers, and researchers interested in the craft - and the struggle - behind the finished work.	Fair / Good 1989         ISBN: 0-7043-4167-0
	SELLERS.	DELIGHTING THE HEART.	Women's Press	£4.95
	Susan,	A Notebook by Women Writers. Some of the world's most famous women writers reveal their approach to the fine and difficult art of writing. Talking with candour and warmth about how they began to write, how they approach a new piece of work and how they develop it. From first idea to publication of a finished piece, they offer examples form their own work that afford an invaluable insight into the difficultie and the joys of writing. A fascinating and inspiring book, valuable to scholars and critics, to other writers, and researchers interested in the craft - and the struggle - behind the finished work.	Mint / As New 1994     ISBN: 0-7043-4167-0
	SHOWALTER.	A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN.	Virago	£4.50
	Elaine Ed),	From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing. In this brilliant study of British women novelists, Elaine Showalter traces the development of their fiction from 1800s onwards. This original, refreshing and sometimes controversial book not only includes assessments of famous writers such as the Brontes, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing, but also presents critical appraisals of Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Sarah Grand - to name but a few of those prolific and successful Victorian novelists - once household names, now largely forgotten. The result is an invaluable record of generations of women writers and the way in which their work reflects the social changes of their time.	Good / V Good   1991     ISBN: 0-86068-285-4
	SHOWALTER.	CHRISTINA ROSSETTI / DINAH MULOCK CRAIK	Pickering	£6.00
	Elaine Ed),	Christina Rossetti - Maude. Dinah Mulock Craik - On sisterhood and a woman's thoughts about women. Writing from very different perspectives and backgrounds, Christina Rossetti and Dinah Mulock Craik were profoundly concerned with the problems of single women and female vocation. These popular texts, brought together for the first time in this edition, make an enlightening contribution to our growing understanding of Victorian Feminist thought.	Mint / New 1993
	SHOWALTER.	SISTER'S CHOICE	Oxford	£3.50
	Elaine,	Tradition and change in American women's writing. The name of this book, Sister's Choice, is taken from a quilt pattern mentioned in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. In Walker's book, the pieced quilt becomes an emblem of a universalist, interracial, and intertextual tradition, as American women's literature itself has become. In this book, Elaine Showalter examines whether or not common threads connect American women writers from different eras and backgrounds in a coherent tradition. How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writings been portrayed in American women's literature?	Fair / Good 1994       ISBN: 0-19-282417-1
	SMITH.	THE FICTION WRITERS HANDBOOK.	Piatkus	£4.50
	Nancy,	The Fiction Writer's Handbook is an essential guide and reference book for everyone  who wants to write a novel or short stories. This comprehensive volume is packed with detailed advice and practical information on: The technique and principles used in all fiction writing - including characterisation, dialogue, theme, conflict, pace and flashback The novel construction The short story and how to find a market for it Working methods, synopses and presentation How to get your work published. Nancy Smith has taught creative writing for over 12 years. She has written short stories, articles, a novel and a non-fiction writing guide - 'The essential A-Z of Creative Writing'. OUT OF STOCK - AT PRESENT - SORRY!!	Good / V Good 1996       ISBN: 0-7499-1152-2
	SPENDER.	HEROINES.	Penguin	£5.95
	Dale Ed),	A Contemporary Anthology of Australian Women Writers. Twenty-two Australian writers reflect on their heroines: from mothers, detectives, old women, teenagers, sisters, lesbians, rural women and urban; women who kill and women who resist violence; women who masquerade as men; women from the past and women from the present&ldots; Robyn Archer, Thea Astley, Diane Bell, Joanne Burns, Barbara Hanrahan, Sara Hardy, Helen Hodgman, Adele Horin, Janette Turner Hospital, Barbara Jeffries, Eva Johnson, Elizabeth Jolley, Gail Jones, Ruby Langford, Rosaleen Love, Finola Moorhead, Elizabeth Riddell, Judith Rodriguez, Georgia Savage, Jocelyn Scutt, Roberta Sykes, Beth Yahp.	Good / V Good 1991 £2.50 P&P (UK)     ISBN: 0-14-014697-0
	SPENDER.	INTRUDERS ON THE RIGHTS OF MEN.	Pandora	£3.75
	Lynne,	Women's unpublished heritage. "Alas, a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on the rights of men". Anne French, Duchess of Wonchelsea. Lynne Spender tells us a story, the story of an unpublished heritage of women's writing which gives us the evidence that the Duchess of Winchelsea's words are as true today as they were in her own times. It is a different story to that which publishers would like to see told. Lynnes Spender reveals the fortunes of past generations of women who have taken up the pen. SHe talks with today's writers and publishers too, uncovering the part that publishers yesterday and today have played in selecting wht shall and shall not be published.	Fair / Good 1983   ISBN: 0-86358-000-9
	SPROULE.	WOMEN AND THE ARTS	Wayland	£3.75
	Anna,	Women in music, ballet, acting, painting and design. The women in history series is an original thought-provoking look at women's involvment in various aspects of history. Each book explores a particular theme and through documentary evidence and contemporary pictures evaluates the role women have played. Case studies of both famous and lesser-known figures are included to supplement the text. Women and the Arts examines the changing role and status of womena artists from the nineteenth century (Starting in the 1700s) to the present day. Looking at various different fields of art - from music and ballet to acting, painting and design - the book highlights the difficulties women ahve faced in becoming accepted and also uncovers women's undoubted contribution to the arts. Women in History Series. Hardback	Fair / Good 1989           ISBN: 1-85210-504-6
	STERNBURG.	THE WRITER ON HER WORK	Virago	£3.95
	Janet Ed,	16 Women Writers share their Experiences. Despite her reservations, Margaret Atwood provides us with a captivating exploration of the question 'why do you write?'. Mary Gordon challenges Theodore Roethke's assertion that women poets are 'stamping a tiny foot against god', and Alice Walker tells us why, if we want to write and have a family, we should have one child only. In these 16 extraordinary, thought-provoking essays, some of the most highly respected writers of our time share their experiences of creativity, and tell how the challenges and demands of everyday life interact with their work. Contributions by: Maraget Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Anita Desai, Joan Didion, Natalia Ginzburg, Mary Gordon, Diane Johnson, Elizabeth Jolley, Erica Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ursula K Le Guin, Jan Morris, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Walker and Margaret Walker.	Good / V Good 1992           ISBN: 1-85381-378-8
	STERNBURG.	THE WRITER ON HER WORK	Norton	£3.95
	Janet Ed,	16 Women Writers share their Experiences. As Above. This book celebrates diversity. In these new and personal essays, notable women writers examine their lives and their work. Novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they have become writers, why they write; and what it means to be a woman and a writer.	Fair / Good 1981 £1.50 P&P (UK) ISBN: 0-393-00071-0
	SULLEROT.	WOMEN ON LOVE.	Norman	£6.00
	Evelyne,	Eight Centuries of Feminine Writing. In the mythology and literature of our culture love is invariably seen through male eyes. Women in love covers 8 centuries of texts written by French women in love, on love, against love, from the 12th century to the 20th century. Evelyne Sullerot retraces the evolution of this feminie culture; her analysis of each period serves as an introduction to the original texts, and describes changing social attitudes to love and marriage, as well as examining those elements that remain constant. Women in Love presents the writings of 160 different women authors, some of them famous and some of them previously unknown. It is a long-awaited tribute to feminine sentiment and culture through the ages.	Fair / Good 1980   Large £3 P&P (UK)     ISBN: 0-906908-24-8
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	TREICHLER & CARTWRIGHT Eds),	CAMERA OBSCURA.	Indiana Uni Press	£4.95
		A journal of Feminism and Film Theory /29: Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science 2. See Media section for more details.	Good / V Good 1992
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	WALKER.	DRAWING ON DIVERSITY.	RIBA Heinz Gallery	£4.50
	Lynne,	Women, architecture and practice. Catalogue containing essays, images and contributions by: Cany Ash, Irena Bauman, Clare Frankl, Robert Sakula, Deborah Saunt and Sarah Wigglesworth. Originated in talks given at the Design Museum, which were part of the 'Women in Architecture' series in 1997. 'Drawing on Diversity' shows the work of British women architects, past and present, in a rich variety of social context and institutional sites. Practice itself is seen here as diverse, not only the building of buildings but as a broad range of practices which include teaching, writing, research and development, as well as organizing architectural events, such as exhibitions, competitions and study days. The exhibition demonstrates the wide scope of women architects' creative and critical activities, and at the same time, considers the different meanings of 'women' and 'architect', which have both inhibited and facilitated women's accesss to architecture and design, over five centuries.	Good / V Good     1997     ISBN: 1-872911-609
	WANDOR.	ON GENDER AND WRITING.	Pandora	£3.25
	Michelene Ed),	How does the sex of the writer affect her or his craft? Twenty-two writers (novelists, playwrights, journalists, critics and poets) look at their own writing and how their experiences as women or men, their own families, childhood ambitions and the changes wrought by feminism have influenced them.  Michelene Wandor - Masks Angela Carter - Notes from Judith Kazantzis - The errant Uni Jill Tweedie - Strnage Places Pam Gems - Imagination and Gender Margaret Drabble - A Woman Writer Fay Weldon - Me and My Shadows Penelope Shutlle & Peter Redgrove - The Dialogue of Gender and many more These essays, honest, complicated and revealing, replace the mystique of 'The Writer' with a real look at the craft and the people who work at it. They present a fascinating adn varied collection of viewpoints on gender and writing for both the general reader and the cultural specialist - for anyone who enjoys reading.	Fair / Good   1983             ISBN: 0-86358-021-1
	WELLS.	VIEW FINDINGS.	Available Light	£5.50
	Liz Ed),	Women Photographers: 'Landscape' and Environment'. Available Light is an occasional series of books on photography. Each anthology ficuses on a particular theme, type of imagery or range of photographers. The intention is to make available work by British photographers which has not previously been published, or to bring together imagery not previoulsy juxtaposed, in order to highlight new photography, and to offer a critical focus on contemporary issues and photographic practices. This book includes: Margins - Anna Fox, Ingrid Hesling, Miranda Walker, Helen Harris, Annette Robinson and Liz Wells. Territories - Stevie Bezencenet, Ingrid Pollard, Elizabeth Williams, Roshini Kempadoo and Lynn Silverman. Image, Metaphor, Myth - Sian Bonnell, Patricia Townsend, Claire Collison.	Good / V Good 1994         ISBN: 1-899457-00-3
	WEST.	A TRAIN OF POWER	Virago	£3.50
	Rebecca,	The postwar trials and reports by Rebecca West. Journalism In 1946 Rebecca West was commissioned by the Daily Telegraph to write three articles on the Nuremberg Trials. She went to Nuremberg that year to hear the closing of the British and US cases and, later, the judgement and sentences. This is her journalism at its most brilliant and evocative: in the eleventh month of the trials she describes Nuremberg as a 'citadel of boredom', tedium pervading not just the courtroom but every street, every house. Here too is her careful and illuminating study of the process of law itself, her fascination with human aspects and the collective moral will. In 1949 she went again, writing this time about the rebuilding of Germany, and in 1954 she produced a fascinating theoretical and retrospective study of Nuremberg. Several other pieces contribute to the book's exraordinary range, inclusing an account of Marshall's treasoin, and two penetrating pieces of crime reportage, 'Mr Setty and Mr Hume', on a murder trial of the fifties, and 'Opera in Greenville', the story of a lynching in the American South. She brings her subjects vividly to life with fascinating biographical and physical details, and, as in all her work, eloquently explores the nature of good and evil, the forces of life and death. These essays confirm Rebecca West's reputation as one of the most distinguished political journalists of our time.	Fair 1984                   ISBN: 0-86068-408-3
	WOOLF.	THE COMMON READER.	Hogarth	£3.75
	Virginia,	First Series. Edited and Introduced by Andrew McNeillie.  Virginia Woolf's first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them she was attempting to see literature from the point of view of the 'common reader': someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, ditinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider, a woman set to school in her father's library, denied the educational privileges of her male siblings - and with no fixed view of what constitutes "English Literature". What she produced is in effect an eccentric and unofficial literary and social history from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, with an excursion to ancient Greece thrown in. She investigates mediaeval England, tsarist Russia; Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists, modern essayists. Obscure figures like Archbishop Thomson and one Laetitia Pilkington, famous writers such as Montiagne, Defoe, Jane Austen and Joseph Conrad - all are brought to life by her scintillating pen. When she published this book Virginaia Woolf's fame as a novelist was already estab;ished; now she was hailed as a brilliant interteative critic. In her first series of essays, Virginia Woolf addresses her 'common reader' in the remarkable prose and with all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamp of her genius. This paperback includes an essay previously unpublished in the British edition. Andrew McNeillie, who assisted Oliver Bell in the editing of 'The Diary of Virgina Woolf', haas also provided an introductory note, a record of first publication of each essay, notes on the text and an index.	Fair / Good   1984       ISBN: 0701219076
	WOOLF.	WOMEN AND WRITING.	Women's Press	£3.95
	Virginia,	Introduced by Michele Barrett.  In her lifetime Virginia Woolf was regarded as a major essayist and critic, with a special interest in contemporary literature and women's writing. Since her death her reputation has rested on her novels and the dubious fame of being the doyenne of 'Bloomsbury'. Women and Writing seeks to correct this emphasis. Fifty years after the publication of 'A Room of one's Own' it is time to reconsider Woolf's arguments about women and writing and her critical assessment of individual authors from the Duchess of Newcastle, born in 1624, to Dorothy Richardson who died in 1957. This selection brings together, for the first time, work previoulsy scattered throughout Virginia Woolf's numerous published volumes. It also includes pieces which existed ony in the form of (sometimes unsigned) journal articles. Michele Barret's introduction draws out the multiple threads of Woolfs anaylsis of literature and her work on the female literary tradition, elucidating not only the writing which follow, but also her indivisible work as a novelist.	Fair / Good   1979     ISBN: 0704338394