Margaret atwood - the handmaidens tale?
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Another book is Sister of my heart (1999) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
( http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/ )
http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/books/sister_of_my_heart
A birth story is in the first chapter or so that weaves together the
lives of two young women.
Susan
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> This is a great resource, thanks for everyone;'s efforts. I will
check
the Atwood story title soon and send it on. I tried finding it thru
amazon, but as it's in a collection of shortstories it's hard to
locate!
>
> I may have deleted or lost some, but here is a compilation. Most are
> listed on amazon.co.uk:
>
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>
> Andrea Levy
> Small Island
> Paperback: 448 pages
> Publisher: Picador (April 1, 2005)
> ISBN-10: 0312424671
>
> Susan Hill 1990
> Family.
> Penguin Books
> Paperback: 304 pages
> Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (22 Feb 1990)
> ISBN-10: 0140108866
> "This is the true story of her quest for motherhood, and the death of
her
> daughter, at five weeks old. "
>
> Enid Bagnold's
> The Squire (1938?)
> Paperback: 288 pages
> Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New Ed edition (26 Mar 1987)
> ISBN-10: 0860688062
>
>
> The Birth House
> by Ami McKay
> Paperback: 352 pages
> Publisher: HarperPerennial; New Ed edition (1 May 2007)
> ISBN-10: 0007233302
>
> Margaret Atwood ?story
>
> The Yellow Wallpaper
> by Charlotte Gilman Perkins [Mrs Stetson] IN:
> Herland, the Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings
> (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics) (Paperback)
> by Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935. Gilman (Author),
> Denise D Knight (Author)
> Paperback: 384 pages
> Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Ltd (3 April 2000)
> ISBN-10: 0141180625
>
>
> Tess Coslett. Women writing childbirth: Modern discourses of
motherhood.
> New York:
> Manchester UP, 1994
> Paperback: 192 pages
> Publisher: Manchester University Press (Dec 1994)
> ISBN-10: 0719043247
> "In this work, the author's detailed readings of birth stories -
both
> literary and medical - reveal deeply embedded assumptions about how
women
> are viewed and view ourselves. The current debates about "natural"
> childbirth as advocated by Sheila Kitzinger, Grantly Read Dick and
others,
> are examined alongside key literary works by writers such as Doris
> Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon and Toni Morrison. Cosslett's
case
> for a re-evaluation of motherhood in today's society aims to present
a
> challenge as much to feminists themselves as to the medical and
scientific
> world. "
>
>
> Kim Edwards'
> 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter'
> Paperback: 416 pages
> Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (26 April 2007)
> ISBN-10: 0141030143
>
> Vera Drake,
> DVD release 2005
> Amazon ASIN: B0007OEMBW
>
> Anita Diamant
> The Red Tent,
> Paperback: 336 pages
> Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.; 1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed edition
(22
> Mar 1999)
> ISBN-10: 0312195516
> "Anita Diamant's The Red Tent is an epic celebration of womanhood,
written
> for women everywhere, regardless of their status, creed or colour. It
is
> the story of a woman whose life was blessed by great love and torn
by
> tragedy, of the lessons she learned through her own experiences and
those
> of the women, and men, whose lives she touched. Diamant has chosen as
h
er
> leading lady a woman whose name alone conjures up echoes> life, like the majority of women in the Old Testament, merits only a
> passing mention. It is the men in Dinah¹s life that history has
> remembered: her famous father Jacob, his dozen sons and especially
her
> brother, Joseph and his technicolour dreamcoat. Not religious? Don'
t
> worry, this biblical character and the story Anita Diamant has woven
from
> the merest hints, will appeal to all. "
>
>
>
> "The book of Negros"
> by Lawrence Hill
> Harpercollins Canada (18 Jan 2007)
> ISBN-10: 0002255073
>
> Cats, Cradles and Chamomile Tea
> by Anna Maria Dell'Oso
> ISBN: 0900882530
> Publisher: Random House Australia, Scoresby, VIC, Australia
> Publication Date: 1989
> Not listed on Amazon?
>
> Margaret Mitchell's
> Gone with the Wind
> Paperback: 1024 pages
> Publisher: Pan Books; New Ed edition (20 Sep 1991)
> ISBN-10: 0330323490
>
> Jeni Couzyn "Transformation".
> In:Warwick A, Shackleton E, Lavelle S (eds) 2002
> The Nation's Favourite Poems of Celebration.
> BBC Worldwide Ltd, London
> pp35-36
> Paperback: 192 pages
> Publisher: BBC Books (10 Oct 2002)
> ISBN-10: 0563488247
>
> Redgrove Peter (1987)
> The visible baby.
> In: The Moon Disposes: poems 1954-1987.
> Secker and Warburg
> Paperback: 256 pages
> Publisher: Secker & Warburg (17 Aug 1987)
> ISBN-10: 0436409941
>
> Stella Gibbons'
> Cold Comfort Farm
> Paperback: 256 pages
> Publisher: Penguin Classics (26 Oct 2006)
> ISBN-10: 0141441593
>
> Margaret Drabble's
> The Millstone
> Paperback: 192 pages
> Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book (Nov 1998)
> ISBN-10: 0156006197
>
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> Leeds University Library
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