Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Angela Carter1986

These stories extol the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness & bad manners. Here are subversive tales, by Jane Bowles, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid & Katherine Mansfield, among others, which have one thing in common - to restore adventuresses & revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women.