The traditional literary themes of birth, death, love, sex, and betrayal are represented here as well as more specifically feminist themes--intergenerational relationships among women, reproductive perils, lesbian love, the impact of war on families, and violence against women.
Includes:
Mirimiri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Marka by Valentina Sidorenko
The Youngest Doll by Rosario Ferré
Purple Thistle by Deena Nelson
The Threshing Floor by Barbara Burford
Burn sugar by Marlene Nourbese Philip
The Awakening by Pearlie McNeill
The Chignon by Ch'i Chün
Story by Barbara Rea
Overwintering by Ingrid MacDonald
A March Guayacán by Bertalicia Peralta
Amina by Shirley Saad
Amazons in Appalachia by Marilou Awiakta
The Long Trial by Andrée Chedid
The Wall-Reader by Fiona Barr
Iron Fish by Kono Taeko
Rosa Blanca, Rosa Negra, Rosa Colorear by Marcella Lucinda García
Broken Threads by Maria-Antónia Oliver
Talking to the Dead by Sylvia A. Watanabe
Doña Marciana Garćia by Rocky Gámez
The Pied Piper: a Fairy Story by Kym Martindale
Lullaby by Kim Chi-wŏn
In the life by Becky Birtha
Her Tru-True Name by Merle Hodge