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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