Jo’s Girls
Edited by Christian McEwen,
(Beacon Press, 1997)

Includes the essay “Hose” by Emily Hiestand

“It was a stroke of brilliance to compile and organize this by the age of the protagonists, and trace the advancing awareness of social and cultural obstacles that trap us, and prevent us from being our whole selves.”

Contributors include Simone de Beauvoir, Willa Cather, Sandra Cisneros, Colette, Annie Dillard, Emily Hiestand, Jamaica Kincaid, Ursula K. Le Guin, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Virginia Woolf, and others.