Women in literature

31 short stories, 49 poems, 2 novel excerpts, and 4 plays reaffirm the central place of women in the development of the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama. Some of the writers include Colette, Anne Sexton, Nikki Giovanni, George Eliot, Carson McCullers, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Marge Piercy, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, Emily Dickinson, and many more.