Twelve stories by american women

A collection of twelve essential short stories by iconic American women writers that introduces a more diverse canon and emphasizes non-white and queer writers to better represent the experiences of all American women and to understand the importance of the short story for womenA Penguin ClassicWhen Four Stories by American Women was first published by Penguin Classics in 1990, it understandably reflected the secondwave feminist interpretations of that time_a period marked by an impressive recovery of what were then considered to be minor American writers.