US Dollars
The selections in Her Own Accord: American Women on Identity, Culture, and Community explore the experiences, challenges, and achievements of women from a contemporary point of view. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short stories, memoirs, and journalistic works are all included. Together these selections and their accompanying discussion questions allow readers to explore how gender informs every aspect of a woman's life—identity, family, relationships, work, and politics.
Identity
- "What Do Women Want?"
- At Odds
- Ending Poem
- Even the Queen
- Rowing
Family
- I Go Back to May 1937
- Freedom Fighter
- My Father's Chinese Wives
- Stories Don't Have Endings
- The Box House and the Snow
Relationships
- A Boy My Sister Dated in High School
- Apple Picking
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- The Burning Heart
- Re-forming the Crystal
Work
- Mind-Body Story
- One Out of Twelve: Writers Who Are Women in Our Century (selection)
- Baby Gotta Eat, Parts I–V
- Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps
- Color Blind or Color Brave?
- Reeling for the Empire
Politics
- "Recitatif"
- When the World as We Knew It Ended
- Bad Feminist: Take One
- Woodchucks
- Reading Lessons
- Ways of Conquest
