Wild Women - Hardcover

Melissa Mia Hall

3.36

11 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786704152 ISBN 13: 9780786704156

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1997

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Offers stories that celebrate women's wilder side and the strategies that have been used to raintain that wildness in spite of society, by authors including Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Gene Wolfe, and Ursula K. LeGuin

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From Kirkus Reviews:

The unfettered woman, as both a liberating and destructive spirit, figures in each of the 32 poems and stories (most previously published) in this intriguing, if uneven, collection. ``I will not give in!'' declares the protagonist of Margaret Atwood's poem ``Half-Hanged Mary,'' which opens the volume, and it's a conviction shared by many of the book's protagonists. In Lucy Taylor's terse story ``Going North,'' a girl escapes from her oppressive family, risking everything on a slender chance to be free. Edward Bryant's nicely cadenced ``While She Was Out'' features a young woman who discovers that committing murder bestows an unexpected sense of self-respect. In ``Haunted,'' Joyce Carol Oates explores, with chilling precision, both sides of the liberation/destruction equation. Lisa Tuttle's ``Bits and Pieces'' is a dark parable of sex and power. Other contributors include Ursula K. LeGuin, Sylvia Watanabe (``Talking to the Dead,'' a grisly, deeply unsettling tale), Gene Wolfe, Alice Walker, and, appropriately, Clarissa Pinkola Est‚s, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves, the bestseller that popularized the image of the free, wild, powerful woman. -- Copyright �1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Booklist:

Women's roles (women's options about roles) remain charged, controversial territory, subject to covert propaganda in every medium from TV sitcoms to "Focus on the Family" radio homilies. No wonder, then, that the "wild woman" archetype persists, stimulating in both women and men a wide range of emotions. A short-fiction collection with this same title was published by Overlook in 1994. Hall's collection draws upon some of the same authors in that book (e.g., Margaret Atwood and Erica Jong) but adds poetry and storytelling (including Clarissa Pinkola Estes' incantatory "Wolf's Eyelash"), as well as male authors' takes on what it means to be a wild woman. Contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, Kate Wilhelm, Bebe Moore Campbell, Carole Nelson Douglas, Alice Walker, Joe R. Lansdale, Ursula LeGuin, Sylvia Watanabe, Pat Cadigan, and the editor. The selections are varied and challenging, destabilizing several varieties of conventional wisdom from a range of different perspectives. Worth considering for women's studies collections as well as literature shelves. Mary Carroll

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