On going home / Joan Didion
Brothers and sisters / Alice Walker
Only daughter / Sandra Cisneros
Ruth's song (because she could not sing it) / Gloria Steinem
My father's penis / Nancy K. Miller
Balancing act / Dani Shapiro
The deterioration of my marriage / Maya Angelou
Here: Grace / Nancy Mairs
Thoughts on becoming a grandmother / Betty Friedan
A friendship forged on concrete / Kathy Dobie
An American in New York / Leanne Howe
Dreams of a black Christmas / Gwendolyn Brooks
A knowing so deep / Toni Morrison
La güera / Cherríe Moraga
Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity / Adrienne Rich
Writing from the darkness / bell hooks
Monday, May 3rd, 1982 / May Sarton
Speak for yourself / Susan Faludi
On being the object of property / Patricia J. Williams
A beaut of a shiner / Jane Slaughter
Give and take / Linda Katherine Cutting
Death of Popeye / Shana Penn
Amazing rage / Barbara Mor
On having a baby / Margaret Mead
Trying (and trying and trying) to get pregnant / Carolyn Coman
Sperm in a jar / Anne Taylor Fleming
I just came out pregnant / Felicita Garcia
A moral choice / Mary Gordon
Consequences / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Standard operating procedure / Jane Shapiro
Sight into insight / Annie Dillard
Walking ; Waking up the rake / Linda Hogan
The bowl ; A woman's dance / Terry Tempest Williams
A very warm mountain / Ursula K. Le Guin.
