Finding courage : writings by women / edited by Irene Zahava.

Misty, tiled chambers / Valerie Miner -- When it happens / Margaret Atwood -- Emei Shan / Canyon Sam -- Seeing San Antonio / Natalie Petesch -- As we are now (excerpt) / May Sarton -- In a house of wooden monkeys / Shay Youngblood -- West with the night / Beryl Markham -- The long night / Toni Bambara -- Things to do / Binnie Kirshenbaum -- Walking steel / Merril Mushroom -- A window on Soweto (excerpt) / Joyce Sikakane -- The chipko / Sally Gearhart -- Mrs. Morris changes lanes / Zoe Fairbairns -- Her wild barbarian heart / Martha Shelley -- The great shakedown / Judy Freespirit -- The steps involved in falling / Teresa Roberts -- A saturday in August / Terri de la Pena -- Ruthy and Edie / Grace Paley -- The field is full of daisies and I'm afraid to pass / Maureen Brady -- I used to like the Dallas Cowboys / Dionne Brand -- Mz. Kitty leaves the Longbranch to win the battle of the O.K. corral / Anne Cameron -- Grey is the color of hope / Irina Ratushinskaya -- The year I was ten / Bonnie Morris -- How grandmother spider brought the light / Paula Allen -- Solitary pleasure / Kitty Tsui -- Nothing safe in Crabtree Meadow / Sandy Boucher -- Snowwalker / Joyce Renwick -- Nore and Zelda / Jess Wells.