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Memoir and Auto/biography

• Abbot, Shirley. Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South. Ticknor & Fields, 1983.
• Abzug, Bella S. Bella!: Ms Abzug Goes to Washington. Ed. Mel Ziegler. Saturday Review Press, 1972.
• Angelou, Maya. Gather Together in My Name. Bantam Books, 1974.
• Angelou, Maya. The Heart of a Woman. Random House, Inc, 1981.
• Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Bantam Books ,1970.
• Angelou, Maya. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas. Random House, Inc, 1976.
• Angelou, Maya. Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now. Random House, Inc, 1993.
• Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera. Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
• Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1985.
• Bateson, Mary Catherine. With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1984.
• Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Reprint. New York: Vintage, 1999. Print.
• Bergman, Ingrid and Alan Burges. Ingrid Bergman: My Story. Delacorte Press, 1980.
• Bhutto, Benazir. Daughter of Destiny. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1989.
• Biren, Joan E. Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians. Glad Hag Books, 1979.
• Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth. Wideview Books, 1980.
• Brown, Arthur W. Margaret Fuller. College & University Press, 1964.
• Cardinal, Marie. The Words to Say It. Van Vactor & Goodheart, Inc., 1983.
• Chicago, Judy. Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist. Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977.
• Cliff, Michelle. Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise. Persephone Press, 1980.
• Cohen, Geula. Woman of Wiolence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1966.
• Cohen, Joyce Tenneson. In/Sights: Self-Portraits by Women. David R. Godine, 1978.
• De Beauvoir, Simone. Force of Circumstance, Volume II: Hard Times. Trans. Richard Howard, 1977.
• Dog, Mary Crow. Lakota Woman. Harper Collins Publishers, 1990.
• Drinnon, Richard. Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1961.
• Duerk, Judith. Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself. LuraMedia, 1989.
• Fleming, Peggy. In Her Place: Inner Views and Outer Spaces. Il. Peggy Fleming. Three Sisters Press, 2000.
• Forten, Charlotte L. The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten. Ed. Ray Allen Billington. W. W. Norton & Company, 1953.
• Frank, Anne. Tales From the House Behind. Il. Peter Spier. Trans. Michel Mok and H. H. B. Moseberg. Bantam Books, 1952.
• Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
• Frank Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Trans. B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. Random House, Inc, 1952.
• Ginandes, Carol. Of Women Born. Pentacle Press, 1976.
• Goldman, Emma. Living My Life, Volume I. Dover Publications, Inc., 1970.
• Grahn, Judy. True To Life Adventure Stories, Volume Two. The Crossing Press, 1981.
• Grumbach, Doris. The Ladies. Ballantine Books, 1984.
• Hansberry, Lorraine. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black. Signet Books, 1970.
• Hellman, Lillian. Scoundrel Time. Bantam Books, 1976.
• Hellman, Lillian. An Unfinished Woman. Bantam Books, 1969.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
• Jones, Mother. The Autobiography of Mother Jones. Ed. Mary Field Parton. Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1977.
• Kane, Elizabeth. Birth Mother: the Courageous, Intimate Story of America's First Surrogate Mother. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1988.
• Kaysen, Susanna. Girl, Interrupted. Random House, Inc, 1993.
• King, Billie Jean and Frank Deford. Billie Jean. The Viking Press, 1982.
• Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Random House, Inc, 1977.
• Leakey, Mary. Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984.
• Lee, Jarena, Zilpha Elaw, Julia A. J. Foote. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. William l. Andrews. Indiana University Press, 1986.
• Lewis, Oscar. The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family. Random House, Inc, 1963.
• Lord, Bette Bao. Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990.
• Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. Spinsters Ink, 1980.
• Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of my Name (A Biomythography). The Crossing Press, 1982.
• MacDonald, Michael Patrick. All Souls: A Family Story From Southie. Ballantine Books, 1999.
• MacKinnon, Janice R. and Stephen R. MacKinnon. Agnes Smedley: Life and Times of an American Radical. Virago Press, 1988.
• Mandela, Winnie. Part of My Soul Went With Him. W. W. Norton & Company, 1984.
• Mankiller, Wilma and Michael Wallis. Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
• Mannes, Marya. Out of My Time. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.
• Markham, Beryl. West With the Night. North Point Press, 1983.
• McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Thousand Pieces of Gold. Beacon Press Books, 1981.
• Millett, Kate. The Loony Bin Trip. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1990.
• Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. Dell Publishing, 1968.
• Morgan, Robin. Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist. Random House, Inc., 1978.
• Mountain Wolf Woman. Sister of Crashing Thunder: the Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. Ed. Nancy Oestrich Lurie. University of Michigan Press, 1966.
• Nestle, Joan. A Restricted Country. Firebrand Books, 1987.
• O’Reilly, Jane. The Girl I Left Behind: The Housewife's Moment of Truth and Other Feminist Ravings. MacMillan Publishing Company, 1980.
• Pruit, Ida and Ning Lao T’ai-t’ai. A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman. Stanford University Press, 1945.
• Rivera, Edward. Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1982.
• Robinson, Roxanna. Georgia O'Keefe: A Life. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989.
• Ross, Cindy. A Woman's Journey on the Appalachian Trail. East Woods Press, 1982.
• Shaarawi, Huda. Harem Years: Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist (1879-1924). Trans. Margot Badran. The Feminist Press, 1986.
• Signoret, Simone. Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be. Penguin Books, 1978.
• Sikakane, Joyce. A Window on Soweto. International Defense & Aid Fund, 1977.
• Stalvey, Lois Mark. The Education of a WASP. Bantam Books, 1970.
• Stefan, Verena. Shedding. Trans. Johanna Moore and Beth Weckmueller. Daughters Publishing Co., Inc., 1978.
• Stein, Gertrude. 3 Lives. Random House, Inc, 1936.
• Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Random House, Inc, 1933.
• Steinem, Gloria. Marilyn: Norma Jeane. Il. George Barris. Henry Holt & Company, 1986.
• Styron, William. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. Random House, Inc, 1990.
• Ullmann, Liv. Choices. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1985.
• Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother's Garens. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1967.
• Wells, Ida B. Crusade For Justice. Ed. Alfreda M. Duster. University of Chicago Press, 1970.
• Wells, Anna Mary. Miss Marks and Miss Woolley: The Portrait of a Lifelong Relationship Between Two Prominent and Independent Women. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.
• Wexler, Alice. Emma Goldman in America. Beacon Press, 1984.
• Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. Stranger and Traveler: The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer. Little, Brown, and Company, 1975.
• Woold, Virginia. Flush: A Biography. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1933.
• Yezierska, Anzia. Bread Givers. Persea Books, 1975.
• Zinn, Becca. Stardust: The musings of a gradually awakening soul. Kansas City, MO: Uni-Sun ;, 1986.

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