Women in the trees : [electronic resource] U.S. women's short stories about battering and resistance, 1839-1994 / edited by Susan Koppelman.

"Published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-301).

A new home, who'll follow? / Caroline Kirkland -- Slavery's pleasant homes / Lydia Maria Child -- A Dorlesky-Burpy family story / Marietta Holley -- Jack the fisherman / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- In Sabine / Kate Chopin -- Tony's wife / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The quiet woman / Mary Heaton Vorse -- The gold vanity set / María Cristina Mena -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Hattie Turner versus Hattie Turner / Fannie Furst -- Pre-Freudian / Dorothy Canfield -- The brown house / Hisaye Yamamoto -- That she would dance no more / Jean Wheeler Smith -- To be a man / Ann Allen Shockley -- After Saturday nite comes Sunday / Sonia Sanchez -- The day my father tried to kill us / Pat Staten -- Las dos hermanas / Rosalie Otero Peralta -- bertha schneiders existential edge / Andrea Dworkin -- Ghosts like them / Shirley Ann Taggart -- Woman waiting for train at dusk / Constance Pierce -- "I don't believe this" / Merrill Joan Gerber -- Minerva writes poems ; Linoleum roses / Sandra Cisneros -- Noises / Jane Bradley -- If it weren't for the honeysuckle-- / Estela Portillo Trambley -- Women in the trees / Pat Murphy -- The man who loved his wife / Janet LaPierre -- Wild turkeys / Beth Brant -- Happy ending / Barbara Harman.

Also issued online.