Borich; Barrie Jean | Body Geographic | During the dawn of the Middle Ages, the average peasant rarely traveled more than sixty miles from their ancestral home. People did not dare move far
Dorothy Allison | Skin | Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature is a collection of essays written by award-winning author Dorothy Allison. Published in 1994, the book c
Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | Unlike Jane Austen or Dickens or George Eliot, most of the great novelists of the twentieth century have felt an immense pressure toward the autobiogr
Jeanette Howard | Into the Promised Land | It’s one thing to say homosexuality is wrong, but it is far more difficult to leave it behind. This is the story of one woman’s struggle as she relate
Linda Simon | The Biography of Alice B. Toklas | Clearly departing from traditional biographical norms, which prescribe choice of an acclaimed or otherwise publically recognized figure as subject, Si
Christina Crosby | A Body, Undone | Shortly after her 50th birthday in 2003, Crosby was in a bicycle accident that paralyzed her, and here shares her experience of living her new life.
Margaret Leland Goldsmith | Christina of Sweden | Presents information on Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) as part of The Window, a collection of philosophy resources compiled by Chris Marvin and Frank
Mary Casal | The Stone Wall. An Autobiography | In casual, conversational and entirely frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the time of writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her
Donna Minkowitz | Growing Up Golem | Donna Minkowitz contributes to the long-standing Jewish-American literary tradition of agonizing self-excavation with her unadulterated new memoir.
