Spring/Summer 1990
Table of Contents
Essays
Deceptive Cadences
Excerpts from a Journal: July 1989
Maintenance
My Introduction to Katherine Anne Porter
Powerful Red Dogs: Excerpts from a Painter’s Studio Notes (
Silent Dancing
Fiction
A Perfectly Happy Woman
August
How Do You Do, Mister Cat
Moonlight
No Evidence Has Been Found
The Very Pineapple
Triptych
War and Peace
Poetry
A Dialectic for Spring Quarter
A Field of Rape
A New Poet
Angel
Arguments of Everlasting
Aviary
Built with the Same Beauty
Circuit Rider
Conversation with Isadora Duncan
Conversation/Conversion
For Wiley, Age Six Months
From the Front Door: to the Mailbox and Back
Hunger
In the Garden of Earthly Delights
In Which I Forgive My Mother Her Intentions
Men’s Middles
News of a Death
On Veronica
Painting No. 21 (Palo Duro Canyon), 1916
Renouncing the Tower
Salt of the Earth
The Process
Time Was, She Declares
To the One Lost on the Other Side
Visiting Flannery O’Connor’s Grave
Watching Great-Grandma Bean Undress
When She Named Fire
Yasmin
Reviews
A Want Ad (on Parties by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan; Where the World Is by Janet Kauffman; Green the Witch-hazel Wood by Emily Hiestand; Waving from Shore by Lisel Mueller; & Grace Notes by Rita Dove)
Achieving Women (on Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Architectural Feminism by Polly Wynn Allen; Ellen Glasgow’s Reasonable Doubts: A Collection of Her Writings by Julius Rowan Raper; & Gender, Race, and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, And Kate Chopin by Helen Taylor)
Ambiguous Womeriy Unwomanly Ambitions (on Life/lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography by Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck; The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women’s Autobiographical Writings by Shari Benstock; & Writing a Woman’s Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun)
Challenging the Hierarchies (on Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine by Naomi Schor; The Pirate’s Fiancee: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism by Meaghan Morris; & The Feminist Spectator as Critic by Jill Dolan and Ann Arbor)
on All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth Century America by Frances B. Cogan
on Herself Beheld: The Literature of the Looking Glass by Jenijoy La Belle
on Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media by Rosemary Betterton
on Reading in America: Literature and Social History by Cathy N. Davidson
on Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Ludmilla Jordanova
on The Sisters’ Arts: The Writing and Painting of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell by Diane Filby Gillespie
on The World, the Flesh, and Angels by Mary B. Campbell
on Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces by Catharine R. Stimpson
on Wildish Things: An Anthology of New Irish Women’s Writing by Ailbhe Smyth
Some Recent Herstories (on Obscene Gestures for Women by Janet Kauffman; After You’ve Gone by Alice Adams; Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle by Ellen Gilchrist; Confessions of a Bad Girl by Bette Pesetsky; & The Women Who Walk by Nancy Huddleston Packer)
Unfinished Lives of Sylvia Plath (on Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin & Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson)
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