Women in a man's world, crying : essays

Women in a man's world, crying : essays / Vicki Covington.

This thoughtful, engaging collection showcases the best nonfiction prose produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers. This collection of warm, heartfelt essays from award-winning novelist Vicki Covington chronicles the multitude of "in between" moments in the w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Covington, Vicki
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Covington, Vicki.
Covington, Vicki
1900-1999
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Family relationships.
Man-woman relationships > Southern States.
Women > Southern States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Man-woman relationships
Manners and customs
Novelists, American
Novelists, American > Family relationships
Women
Southern States > Social life and customs.
Southern States
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Women in a man's world, crying
  • The girls' locker room
  • Her breast
  • Women in prison
  • Nails
  • Girls playing hardball
  • The father-daughter game
  • A southern Thanksgiving
  • Donor
  • A simple life
  • Recipes and the friends who went with them
  • Barbie
  • School lunch
  • Michael Jordan's midlife crisis
  • Buying Annie
  • Crossing the viaduct
  • My mother's brain
  • Race car drivers and writers
  • December, a grandmother's dying
  • Nixon
  • Jackie
  • The mouse
  • The south catches on to AIDS
  • The AIDS care team
  • The family reunion
  • Grits
  • The southern art of feeding
  • Museum
  • The disappearing south
  • The star of wonder
  • Jan, my cousin
  • The apple tree
  • Mother's day
  • Other people's hell
  • Normandy
  • Letters from the war
  • On marriage
  • A feminist Easter
  • Eros
  • The moon, twenty five years later
  • Walking on water
  • Writers don't wear petticoats
  • Imagination's birth
  • The horse
  • The house within.

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