Books like Black women, writing, and identity by Carole Boyce Davies

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

A collection of interviews with mid‑century Black women writers, paired with gender‑balanced literary criticism that explores their experiences and contributions to American literature.

Joanna Russ’s essays trace the intersections of science fiction, fantasy, and feminism, exploring gender, authorship, and popular culture from classic authors to contemporary critiques.

A scholarly examination of how cultural tradition shapes language, narrative and metaphor in the fiction of contemporary African‑American and West African black women writers.

"Boss Ladies, Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books and reviews already know her as one of the most incisive and witty critics writing today.". "The articles collected in Boss Ladies, Watch Out! constitute an extended meditation - both learned and personal - on just what it means to be a Female Critic. In the book's opening essays Castle examines how women became critics in the first place - scandalously at times - in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She explores in particular Jane Austen's "talismanic" role in the establishment of a female critical tradition. In the second part of the book, Castle embraces, with gusto, the role of Female Critic herself." "In lively reconsiderations of Sappho, Bronte, Cather, Colette, Gertrude Stein, and many other great women writers - "Boss Ladies" all - Castle pays a moving and civilized tribute to female genius and intellectual daring."--BOOK JACKET.