You can't keep a good woman down by Alice Walker

A natural evolution from the earlier, much acclaimed short story collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated.  No longer do they excuse the aggression of others, no longer are they suspended in their unhappy condition.  The women here claim every bit of the space they make.

  These are modern stories:  about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the perils of pornography, abortion, and rape; the delight of new lovers; and the rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.