Writing Women'S Lives: An Anthology Of Autobiographical Narratives By Twentieth-Century American Women Writers

By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Nikki Giovanni, Ellen. Glasgow, Shirley Abbott, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Eudora WELTY, Mary E. Mebane, Mary McCarthy, Nancy Mairs, Maureen Howard, Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Kate Simon, Beverly Donofrio, Madeleine L'Engle, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Lee Settle, Bebe Moore Campbell, Joyce Johnson, Susan Cahill, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Annie Dillard, Dorothy Day, Vivian Gornick, Dorothy Allison, Zora Neale Hurston, May Sarton, Mary Antin, Hortense Calisher, Joan Didion, Jamaica Kincaid, Jane Addams, Jane O'Reilly, M. F. K. Fisher, Eileen B. Simpson, Lillian Hellman, Patricia Hampl, Edith Wharton, Kate Millett, Sandra Cisneros, Denise Levertov, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Tillie Olsen, Mary Brave Bird, Bell Hooks, Ann Cornelisen, Diane Glancy, Louise Bogan, Beatrice Levertoff

Writings From Jane Addams, Ellen Glasgow, May Sarton, Joan Didion, Nancy Mairs, Jamaica Kincaid, Bell Hooks, Natalie Kusz, And Many Others, Reflecting On Their Lives, Their Work, Their Worlds, Conn...

Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, And Life Writing

By Nancy Mairs, G. Thomas Couser

This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disabilityin particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysiswho challenge the stigmas attached to their conditi...

Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, And Life Writing

By Nancy Mairs, G. Thomas Couser

    This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability—in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis—who challenge the stigmas attached...

A Weed By Any Other Name

By Nancy Mairs, Nancy Gift, ProQuest (Firm)

“is That A Weed?” This Question, Asked By Anyone Who Has Ever Gardened Or Mowed A Lawn, Does Not Have An Easy Answer. After All, A Weed, As Scientist Nancy Gift Reminds Readers, Is Simply A Pl...

The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, And Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories

By Louise Erdrich, Nancy Mairs, Susan Wadia-Ells, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Wadia-Ells

These personal essays and stories are informed by the contemporary adoption movement and raise timely issues that illustrate its complexity, among them: open and closed adoption, cross-cultural ado...

Recovering Bodies

By Nancy Mairs, G. Thomas Couser

    This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability—in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis—who challenge the stigmas attached to their c...

Waist-High In The World

By Nancy Mairs, Nancy Mairs, Nancy Mairs

In Waist-high In The World, Mairs Explores In Her Inimitable Voice The Subject That Has Always Been In The Background Of Her Writing, But Which She Takes On Here For The First Time At Book-length -...

A Dynamic God

By Nancy Mairs

Passionately nonconformist spiritual reflections from an acclaimed essayist When Nancy Mairs published her “spiritual autobiography” Ordinary Time, Kathleen Norris greeted it in the New York T...

A Dynamic God: Living An Unconventional Catholic Faith

By Nancy Mairs

God doesn't saunter in once for all and settle like a large cat plumping herself into your favorite rocker with an air that says, "Here I am! Now your life is complete!" God dances beyond the thres...

A Dynamic God Large Print Edition: Living An Unconventional Catholic Faith

By Nancy Mairs