Haunting the House of Women

Haunting the House of Women: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women is a 1991 anthology of feminist SF studies edited by Lynette Carpenter and Wendy K. Kolmar.

Editions

• 1991: University of Tennessee, ISBN 0870496883; ISBN 978-0870496882.

Contents

• Introduction / Lynette Carpenter & Wendy K. Kolmar
• Living ghosts and women's religion in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs / Priscilla Leder
• The "Faces of children that had never been" : ghost stories by Mary Wilkins Freeman / Beth Wynne Fisken
• The ghostly double behind the wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" / E. Suzanne Owens
• Edith Wharton's haunted fiction : "The lady's maid's bell" and The House of Mirth / Kathy A. Fedorko
• Spook or spinster? Edith Wharton's "Miss Mary Pask" / Jennice G. Thomas
• Visions of female community in Ellen Glasgow's ghost stories / Lynette Carpenter
• In spite of the Klan : ghosts in the fiction of Black women writers / Geraldine Smith-Wright
• "Whose hand was I holding?" : familial and sexual politics in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House / Tricia Lootens
• Ghosts as Chinese-American constructs in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Gayle K. Fujita Sato
• The ghost story as Aggada : Cynthia Ozick's "The pagan rabbi" and Sheindel's Scar / Ruth Rosenberg
• "A story to pass on" : ghosts and the significance of history in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Barbara Hill Rigney
• "Dialectics of connectedness" : supernatural elements in novels by Bambara, Cisneros, Grahn, and Erdrich / Wendy K. Kolmar.

• Bibliographical references (pp. 255-257)
• Index

Subject headings and search terms

• Ghost stories, American -- History and criticism.
• Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism.
• American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
• Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism.
• Feminism and literature -- United States.
• Women and literature -- United States.