Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems

by Nancy Hoffman (Editor), Florence Howe

In these 34 selections, women work-as they do in real life, but as they rarely do in standard literary anthologies. Such writers as Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Tillie Olsen, Alice Walker, Sara Orne Jewett, and Sholem Asch capture the intensity of women's work experience, paid and unpaid, inside and outside the home, including their work for social change.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[D1 · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many great selections especially from the Satisfying Work section. My favorite is "The Bowl" by Barbara Smith. A stanza:

If women's lives were fables
and kitchen feats adventures,
this bowl would be a talisman,
tell tales
and even fly.