Realities of Women's Lives: The Continuing Search

Mary Louise Briscoe reviews a cross-section of current works in women's studies: "Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction" by Carol Fairbanks, "Images of Women in Literature" edited by Mary Anne Ferguson, "The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women," fourth edition, edited by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and Joan M. Jensen's "Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850." References.