Partial contents: The sisters / Amy Lowell -- A time to eat / Gertrude Stein -- Menses / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Why, some of my best friends are women / Phyllis McGinley -- I have three daughters / Ruth Stone -- The mother / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The women in Vietnam / Grace Paley -- The abortion / Anne Sexton -- Snapshots of a daughter-in-law / Adrienne Rich -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- The friend / Marge Piercy -- At first I was given centuries / Margaret Atwood -- when my uncle willie saw / Carole Freeman -- First pregnancy / Alta -- Dancing the Shout to the true gospel or the song / Rita Mae Brown -- Chic freedom's reflection / Alice Walker -- Letter to a friend in an unknown place / Anita Barrows -- The photograph the cat licks / Beatrice Walter -- i have been my arm / Margo Taft.