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I. Traditional Images of Women Image One: The Wife Little Woman, SallyBenson The Angel over the Right Shoulder, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Cutting theJewish Bride's Hair, Ruth Whitman The Bridal Veil, Alice Cary Aunt Rosanna'sRocker, Nicholosa Mohr Migration, Carol Gregory A Wife's Story, BharatiMukherjee Secretive, Jane Augustine Driving to Oregon, Jean Thompson Facingthe Music, Larry Brown Marks, Linda Pastan. Image Two: The Mother I Sing theBody Electric! Ray Bradbury On the First Night, Erica Jong Transition, ToiDerricotte The Mother, Gwendolyn Brooks Pressure for Pressure, Ellen LesserExpensive Gifts, Sue Miller Daddy, Jan Clausen The Envelope, Maxine KuminBetween the Lines, Ruth Stone I Ask My Mother to Sing, Li-Young Lee FlowerFeet, Ruth Fainlight Speculation, Gloria C Oden Girl, Jamaica KincaidCihuatlyotl, Woman Alone, Gloria E Anzaldua Dear Toni Instead of a Letter,Audre Lorde Souvenir, Jayne Anne Phillips Bridging, Max Apple Grace, VickiSears. Image Three: Woman on a Pedestal Susanna and the Elders, AdelaideCrapsey In an Artist's Studio, Christina Rossetti The Glamour Trap, GeorgeLefferts Pretty, Alta The End of a Career, Jean Stafford Song, William BlakeBaby, You Were Great! Kate Wilhelm La Belle Dame sans Merci, John Keats TheLoreley, Heinrich Heine Erzulie Freida, Zora Neale Hurston Image Four: TheSex Object The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, Irwin Shaw Brooklyn, PauleMarshall One off the Short List, Doris Lessing The Patriarch, ColetteMetonymy, Julie Fay From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Withno immediate cause, Ntozake Shange From Incidents in the Life of a SlaveGirl, Written by Herself, Linda Brent [Harriet Jacobs] From The MaimiePapers, Maimie Pinzer Poem about My Rights, June Jordan Image Five: Womenwithout Men Miss Gee, W.H. Auden Bedquilt, Dorothy Canfield Fisher The WomenMen Don't See, James Tiptree, Jr Silk-Workers, Agnes Smedley My Lover Is aWoman, Pat Parker Trespassing, Valerie Miner Home, Shirley Ann Grau The Storyof an Hour, Kate Chopin The Widow's Lament in Springtime, William CarlosWilliams Mourning to Do, May Sarton Old Things, Bobbie Ann Mason. II. WomanBecoming A Prison gets to be a friend, Emily Dickinson Tell Me a Riddle,Tillie Olsen Unlearning to Not Speak, Marge Piercy Seventeen Syllables,Hisaye Yamamoto Three Women, Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Allegory on Wimmen'sRights, Marietta Holley Miss Rosie, Lucille Clifton I Like to Think ofHarriet Tubman, Susan Griffin From Work: A Story of Experience, Louisa MayAlcott From Gifts of Power, Rebecca Jackson A Person as Well as a Female,Jade Snow Wong Spelling, Margaret Atwood Trifles, Susan Glaspell Diving intothe Wreck, Adrienne Rich Hope, Nadya Aisenberg Homecoming, Martha Collins AWoman at the Window, Nellie Wong Present, Sonia Sanchez Beyond What, AliceWalker Three Dreams in the Desert under a Mimosa Tree, Olive Schreiner Woman,Alaide Foppa. Afterword: Writing Images/Images of Writing by Jean FergusonCarr Suggestions for Further Reading Works Cited in Introductions Works Citedin Previous Editions Reference Works Periodicals Anthologies of Women'sWritings Selected Recent Literary Criticism and Theory AcknowledgementsAuthor/Title Index.