Almost Touching the Skies

How do girls and young women discover -- or create -- a sense of who they are and who they may become? How do they come to terms with what it means to be a woman in the world -- and imagine how they may change the world as women? This evocative anthology explores these questions through the work of two dozen distinguished writers published by The Feminist Press in its 30 years of publishing. Almost Touching the Skies features work by Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, Agnes Smedley, Paule Marshall, Hisaye Yamamoto and many others.The Feminist Press, founded in 1970 to reclaim the best in writing by and about women, offers this engaging, multicultural collection of fiction and memoir written between the 1860s and 1990s as a testament to its own rich publishing history. Almost Touching the Skies pays tribute to the diversity and vitality of American women writers through more than a century, and to the courage and resilience of young women enduring or enjoying a compelling range of life experiences.Howe, Florence is the author of 'Almost Touching the Skies' with ISBN 9781558612334 and ISBN 1558612335.