The experience is her own - as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother - but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed in its many variations on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.One of our most distinguished poets, ADRIENNE RICH was born in Baltimore in 1929. Over the last forty years she has published more than seventeen volumes of poetry and five books of nonfiction prose, including Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Blood, Bread, and Poetry; and What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. She has received numerous awards, including the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Lambda Book Award, the National Book Award, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in California.

    Alone Of All Her Sex: The Myth And The Cult Of The Virgin Mary, by Warner, Marina

    Showalter is one of the few scholars who can make her readers rush to their bookshelves to refute her point, or simply to experience again Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, or the bitterly illuminating stories of Katherine Mansfield. Her chief innovation is to place the works of famous women writers beside those of the minor or forgotten, building a continuity of influence and inspiration as well as a more complete picture of the social conditions in which women's books have been produced. She has added a new introduction recounting, with justifiable pleasure, how daring and controversial her study seemed when it first appeared in 1977 (and how many enemies it made her). In an afterword, she touches on more recent developments in the women's novel in Britain, including the influence of the dazzling Angela Carter. --Regina Marler

    Iwas written for Ms. magazine and published in the April 1976 issue, pp. 49-51, 92-98. It evoked more letters from readers than any article previously published in Ms., all but a few relating their own experiences of being trashed. Quite a few of these were published in a subsequent issue of Ms.

    Self-Assertion for Women offers practical advice with realistic sample dialogues and step-by-step exercises showing women how they can:learn to communicate clearly and effectivelyprotect themselves from misread signals in public, as well as intimate, situationsmaintain professional authority without becoming aggressivedeal appropriately with sexual harassmentexpress positive and negative feelings without anxietyset boundaries and assert themselves freely while maintaining loving relationshipsidenify "assertiveness blind spots"Butler's strategies can be applied by all women in any situation that requires direct, effective, and positive action.

    "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" is one of them. I was at a friend's house, sleeping on a couch. I got up to put on some coffee (they were all upstairs doing Fun Stuff) and as I passed the stereo I turned it on. The song was Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Before I got the water in the pot, "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" came to me -- nearly all of it, just like that. By the time everybody came down about noon, I was finishing the first draft. That was 1974. I was thankful. If writing were always that easy, anybody could do it."Mary Margaret Road-Grader" originally appeared in Orbit 18, edited by Damon Knight (Harper & Row, 1976).

    

    Budapest is a Hungarian born genetic Dianic witch, active in the Wimmin's Religious Revolution and the Feminist Movement since 1970. She is the High Priestess of the Susan B. Anthony Coven No. 1, and founder of the Sisterhood of the Wicca, a legally recognized covenant of the Goddess and wimmin. " (as printed on the back cover)This small, independent printing is the 2nd printing (yellow cover) of a book of shadows that is as the title suggest, feminist. Invocations, rituals, spells, altar arrangements and so forth. This book is out of print and is a rare find.

    

    Additional editors are Joan Keefe, Deirdre Lashgari, and Kathleen Weaver.Forward by Adrienne Rich.