Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Women Who Walk Through Fire: A Vindication of Heras and Heraism • (1990) • essay by Susanna J. Sturgis
• 12 • Earth and Sky Words • (1990) • short story by Cathy Hinga Haustein
• 23 • The Inkblot Test • (1990) • short story by Rosalind Warren [as by Rosalind A. Warren]
• 27 • New Age Baby • (1990) • short story by Deborah H. Fruin
• 34 • Night of the Short Knives • (1990) • short story by Phyllis Ann Karr
• 53 • The Forbidden Words of Margaret A. • (1990) • short story by L. Timmel Duchamp
• 76 • Road Runner • (1990) • short story by G. K. Sprinkle
• 85 • Picnic Days • (1990) • short story by Cleo Kocol
• 93 • Net Songs • (1990) • short story by Elaine Bergstrom
• 111 • Shark-Killer • (1988) • novelette by Carol Severance
• 132 • Firebird • novelette by J. L. Comeau
• 162 • A Ceremony of Discontent • (1981) • short story by Eleanor Arnason
• 173 • Mamugrandae - The Second Tale • (1990) • short story by Merril Mushroom
• 182 • The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighborhood • short story by Rachel Pollack (variant of The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighbourhood 1984)
• 194 • Sahrel Short Swords • (1990) • short story by Ginger Simpson Curry
• 208 • My Lady Tongue • (1988) • novelette by Lucy Sussex
• 256 • Hills of Blue, an Orange Moon • (1990) • short story by Ruth Shigezawa
• 268 • Contributors' Notes (The Women Who Walk Through Fire) • (1990) • essay by Susanna J. Sturgis