Women Writers: Texts and Contexts features short fiction by women writers. Each casebook includes an authoritative text of the story, an introduction by a leading scholar, critical essays, a chronology of the author's life and work, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Series board: Martha Banta, Barbara Christian, and Paul Lauter

Women Writers: Texts and Contexts includes the following titles:

"A Good Man is Hard to Find": Flannery O'Connor
Edited by Frederick Asals

"Flowering Judas": Katherine Anne Porter
Edited by Virginia Spencer Carr

"Seventeen Syllables": Hisaye Yamamoto
Edited by King-Kok Cheung

"Everyday Use": Alice Walker
Edited by Barbara T. Christian

"Yellow Woman": Leslie Marmon Silko
Edited by Melody Graulich

"Tell Me a Riddle": Tillie Olsen
Edited by Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Joyce Carol Oates
Edited by Elaine Showalter

"Sweat": Written by Zora Neale Hurston
Edited by Cheryl A. Wall