Books by Barbara Smith

A selection of work by Barbara Smith. She defines a black women's tradition, examines the sexual politics of the lives of black women and other women of colour, represents the lives of black lesbians and gay men, and makes connections between race, class, sexuality and gender.

Barbara Smith's second collection of tales of the paranormal in Ontario. Meet the phantom who wanders the halls of a Brockville home dressed in along, white gown and the Hamilton family of five who have co-existed with a ghost for 20 years. Read about two psychics who visited a little cottage in Windsor only to stumble into a time warp that revealed the property and its owner as they existed many years before. Encounter the spirit of an angry boy trapped in this earthly plane who brought havoc to a home in Callander. These stories and many more provide hours of enjoyable reading.

This work looks at Jonson's treatment of women in his verse rather than in his plays. Previous critics have argued that Jonson was misogynistic, but this book provides evidence to the contrary, placing his depiction of women firmly within their historic/societal context.

Analyzes the dramatic developments in the lives of contemporary Southern women. This title include case studies that portray women's diverse circumstances and activities from rural African American women in the Mississippi Delta taking on new roles as community builders to female textile workers in North Carolina.