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Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

These stories extol the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness & bad manners. Here are subversive tales, by Jane Bowles, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid & Katherine Mansfield, among others, which have one thing in common - to restore adventuresses & revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women.

Genre
fantasyliterary fictionfairy taleromance
Themes
feminismwomen
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 339 pages
Form
short stories

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