NIU Women's Studies Library Resource List
Literature: Fiction— Essays, Novels, Poems, Plays, etc.:
Agosin, Marjorie, ed. Landscapes of the New Land: Short Fiction by Latin American Women. Buffalo: White Pine, 1989.
Aldridge, Sarah. Cytherea’s Breath. Rehoboth Beach: A&M Books, 1982.
Ang, Li. The Butchers Wife. Boston: Beacon, 1983.
Anzaldúa, Gloria, ed. Making Face, Making Soul: Haciendo Caras. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation Books, 1990.
Auburn, David. Proof. Union Square West: Faber & Faber, 2001.
Austen, Jane. Emma. Lionel Trilling, ed.Cambridge: Riverside, 1957.
Ballentine, Susan Frank and Jessica Barksdale Inclan. Diverse Voices of Women. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1995.
Barker, Mildred, et al. Women: Feminist Stories by Nine New Authors. New York: Eakins, 1972.
Barnstone, Aliki and Willis Barnstone, eds. A Book of Women Poets: from Antiquity to Now. New York: Schocken Books, 1992.
Barreca, Reginia, ed. Women of the Century: Thirty Modern Short Stories. New York: St. Martin’s, 1993.
Barrett, Eileen and Mary Cullinan. American Women Writers: Diverse Voices in Prose Since 1845. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992.
Beal, M.F. Angel Dance: A Classic Lesbian Thriller. Freedom: Crossing, 1990.
Brady, Maureen. Give Me Your Good Ear. Minneapolis: Spinsters Ink, 1994.
Brant, Beth. Food and Spirits. Ithaca: Fireband Books, 1991.
Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage. New York: Grove, 1966.
Brehm, Victoria, ed. The Women's Great Lakes Reader. Tustin, MI: Ladyslipper Press, 2000.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. London: Penguin, 1966.
Brooks, Geraldine. March. New York: Viking, 2005.
Brown, Rita Mae. In Her Day. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.
Brown, Rita Mae. Southern Discomfort. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.
Brown, Rita Mae. Sudden Death. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.
Bryant, Marcella. Ancient Child: Poetry About Incest. Austin, TX: Plain View Press, 1989.
Buck, Marilyn, et al. Conspiracy of Voices. Madison: Women In Support of Political Prisoners, 1990.
Cahill, Susan, ed. Women and Fiction: Short Stories by and About Women. New York: Mentor, 1975.
Callaghan, Patsy, et al. Gender Images: Readings for Composition (Instructor’s Resource Manual). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
Carver, Ann C. and Yvonne Sung-sheng Chang , eds. Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan. New York, NY: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1990.
Chambers, Jane. Last Summer at Bluefish Cove. New York: J.H. Press, 1982.
Change, Pang-Mei Natasha. Bound Feet and Western Dress. New York: Anchor Books, 1981.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. New York: Riverhead Books, 1995.
Churchill, Caryl. Cloud Nine. New York: Samuel French, 1979.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. (Signed copy.)
Cotrell, Georgia. Shoulders. Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1987.
Cunha, Helena Parente. Woman Between Mirrors. Translated by Fred P. Ellison and Naomi Lindstrom. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.
Curb, Rosemary Keefe, ed. Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays. New York: Applause, 1996.
Dana, Doris, ed. Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1971.
DeVeaux, Alexis. Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday. New York: Writers & Readers Publishing, 1988.
Diamant, Anita. The Red Tent. New York: Picador USA, 1997.
Doerr, Harriet. Stones for Ibarra. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
Durrell, Lawrence. Pope Joan: Translated and Adapted from the Greek of Emmanuel Royidis. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974.
Eagleton, Sandra. Women in Literature: Life Stages Through Stories, Poems, and Plays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1988.
Eden, Emily. The Semi-Attached Couple and The Semi-Detached House. New York: Dial, 1979.
Esquivel, Laura. The Law of Love. New York: NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996.
Faderman, Lillian. Scotch Verdict-Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1983.
Fannin, Alice, et al. Woman: An Affirmation. Lexington: D.C. Heath & Co., 1979.
Felinto, Marilene. The Women of Tijucopapo. Translated by Irene Matthews. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Ferguson, Mary Anne. Images of Women in Literature. 1st ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ferguson, Mary Anne. Images of Women in Literature. 5th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Fetterley, Judith, and Marjorie Pryse, eds. American Women Regionalists, 1850-1910: A Norton Anthology. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992.
French, Marilyn. The Women’s Room. New York: Summit Books, 1977.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. New York: Penguin, 1970.
Gibbons, Kaye. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998.
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland: A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.
Ginzburg, Lidiya. Blockade Diary. London: Harvill Press, 1995.
Grahn, Judy. Mundane’s World. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1988.
Griffin, Susan. Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1978.
Hale, Janet Campbell. The Jailing of Cecelia Capture. New York, NY: Random House, 1985.
Hamalian, Linda and Leo Hamalian. Solo: Women on Woman Alone. New York, NY: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1977.
Harjo, Joy and Gloria Bird, eds. Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
H.D. HERmione. New York, NY: New Directions, 1981.
Hegland, Jean. Into the Forest. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1998.
Hellman, Lillian. Four Plays: The Children’s Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes, and Watch on the Rhine. New York, NY: Random House, 1942.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Rpt. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1990.
Jewett, Sarah Orne. A White Heron and Other Stories (unabridged). Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1999.
Kallet, Marilyn and Patricia Clark. Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Constant Nymph. Rpt. Garden City, NY: Dial Press, 1983.
Kesselman, Amy, Lily D. McNair and Nancy Schniedewind. Women: Images and Realities: A Multicultural Anthology. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995.
Kincaid, Jamacia. Lucy. New York, NY: Plume, 1990.
Kleefeld, Carolyn. Climates of the Mind. Los Angeles: The Horse & Bird Press, 1979. [Missing pages]
Kramer, Larry. The Normal Heart. New York, NY: Plume, 1985.
Lamb, Myrna. The Mod Donna and Scyklon Z: Plays of Women’s Liberation. New York, NY: Pathfinder Press, 1970.
Linthwaite, Illona, ed. Ain’t I A Woman!-A Book of Women’s Poetry from Around the World. New York, NY: Wings Books, 1993.
Lispector, Claire. The Passion According to G.H. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Lowenstein, Andrea Freud. This Place. Boston, MA: Pandora Press, 1984.
Macaulay, Rose. Told by an Idiot. Garden City, NY: Dial Press, 1983.
Madison, D. Soyini, ed. The Woman That I Am: The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Manson, Cynthia, ed. Women of Mystery. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992.
Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones. 1959. New York: The Feminist Press, 1981.
Martineau, Harriet. Deerbrook. Garden City, NY: Dial Press, 1984.
Martz, Sandra Haldeman. I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted. Watsonville, CA: Papier- Mache Press, 1994.
McCauley, Stephen. The Object of My Affection. New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 1987.
McCoy, Maureen. Walking After Midnight. New York, NY: Poseidon Press, 1985.
Miller, Robert K. Great Short Works of Willa Cather. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1989.
Miner, Valerie and Helen E. Longino, eds. Competition: A Feminist Taboo? New York, NY: Feminist Press, 1987.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Blackwater Spirits. New York, NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 1995.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Brothers of Cain. New York, NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 2001.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Children of Cain. New York, NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 2002.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Must The Maiden Die. New York, NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 2000.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Seneca Falls Inheritance. New York, NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 1992.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Sisters of Cain. New York, NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 2000.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. The Stalking Horse. New York, NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 1998.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Through a Gold Eagle. New York, NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 1996.
Moore, Lorrie. Self Help. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1985.
Morales, Aurora Levins and Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1986.
Muhanji, Cherry. HER. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 1990.
Namou, Weam. The Mismatched Braid. Troy, MI: Hermiz Publishing, 2006.
Navratilova, Martina and Liz Nickles. The Total Zone: A Mystery. New York, NY: Villard Books, 1994.
Naylor, Gloria. Bailey’s Café. New York, NY: Vintage Contemporaries, 1993.
Nestle, Joan. Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction. New York, NY: Plume Books, 1990.
Newman, Leslie. Good Enough to Eat. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1986.
Ohio, Denise. The Finer Grain. Tallahassee, FL: NAIAD Press, 1988.
Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle. New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1961.
Page, Louise. Golden Girls. New York, NY: Methuen Press, 1985.
Parker, Pat. Jonestown and Other Madness: Poetry by Pat Parker. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1985.
Partnoy, Alicia, ed. You Can’t Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile. Pittsburg, PA: Cleis Press, 1988.
Pearson, Carol Lynn. A Widening View. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft Inc., 1983.
Pearson, Carol Lynn. Mother Wove the Morning: A One-Woman Play. Walnut Creek, CA: Pearson Publishing, 1992.
Pearson, Carol Lynn. Women I Have Known and Been. Salt Lake City, UT: Aspen Books, 1992.
Perkins, Barbara, et al. Women’s Work: An Anthology of American Literature. St. Louis, MO: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994.
Petry, Ann. The Street. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1985.
Reilly, Catherine, ed. Scars Upon My Heart: Women’s Poetry & Verse of the First World War. London: Virago, 1981.
Richardson, Henry Handel. Maurice Guest. New York, NY: Dial Press, 1981.
Russ, Joanna. On Strike Against God. Trumansburg, NY: Out & Out Books, 1980.
Sapphire. American Dreams. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1994.
Sarraute, Nathalie. Childhood. Translated by Barbara Wright. New York, NY: George Braziller, 1984.
Sarton, May. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaid Sing. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1965.
Schlissel, Lillian, and Catherine Lavender, eds. The Western Women's Reader: The Remarkable Writings of Women Who Shaped the American West, Spanning 300 Years. New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 2000.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Sherman, John R., ed. African American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Shewey, Don, ed. Out Front: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Plays. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1988.
Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1993.
Shockley, Ann Allen. Loving Her. Tallahassee, FL: NAIAD Press, Inc., 1987.
Sinclair, April. Coffee Will Make You Black. New York, NY: Avon Books, 1994.
Staël, Germaine de. Delphine. Translated by Avriel H. Goldberger. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.
Stambolian, George, ed. Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction. New York, NY: Plume Books, 1986.
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Quicksand. New York, NY: Vintage International, 1993.
Taylor, Elizabeth. Angel. Garden City, NY: Dial Press, 1984.
Traba, Marta. Mothers and Shadows. Translated by Jo Labanyi. Columbia, LA: Readers International, Inc., 1989.
Travitsky, Betty, ed. The Paradise of Women: Writings by English Women of the Renaissance. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1981.
Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa. The Dirty Girls Social Club. New York, NY: St. Martin’s, 2003.
Villanueva, Alma Luz. The Ultraviolet Sky. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1988.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1982.
Walker, Alice. Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
Warhol-Down, Robyn, Diane Price Herndle, Mary Lou Kete, et. al., eds. Women’s Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women’s Writing. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2009.
Warner-Vieyra, Myriam. Juletane. Translated by Betty Wilson. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1987.
Washington, Mary Helen, ed. Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories By and About Black Women. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1975.
West, Rebecca. The Fountain Overflows. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1985.
White, Edmond. A Boy’s Own Story. New York, NY: Plume Books, 1982.
Whitney, Phyllis A. Domino. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979.
Wilkerson, Margaret B., ed. 9 Plays by Black Women. New York, NY: Mentor Books, 1986.
Wilson, Barbara. Murder in the Collective. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1984.
Winterson, Jeanette. Sexing the Cherry. New York, NY: Vintage International, 1989.
Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body. New York, NY: Vintage International, 1992.
Wittig, Monique. Les Guérillères. Translated by David Le Vay. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1969.
Wold, Margaret. The Shalom Woman. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1975.
Wolff, Rebecca. Figment Poems. NewYork, NY: W. W. Norton and Company Inc, 2004.
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1956.
Yezierska, Anzia. Bread Givers. New York, NY: Persea Books, 1975.
Zhijuan, Ru. Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers. Beijing, China: Panda Books, 1985.