Dancing Girls (short story collection)

Dancing Girls & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1977 by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto. It was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction.

The collection's fourteen stories feature ordinary people, including a farmer, a birdwatcher, an author, a mother and a travel agent, and their inevitably biased perceptions of the world.

Stories
Editions based on the original 1977 McClelland & Stewart edition contain the following fourteen stories:
 * "The War in the Bathroom"
 * "The Man from Mars"
 * "Polarities"
 * "Under Glass"
 * "The Grave of the Famous Poet"
 * "Rape Fantasies"
 * "Hair Jewellery"
 * "When it Happens"
 * "A Travel Piece"
 * "The Resplendent Quetzal"
 * "Training"
 * "Lives of the Poets"
 * "Dancing Girls"
 * "Giving Birth"

Editions based on the revised Simon & Schuster 1982 edition contain the following fourteen stories:
 * "The Man from Mars"
 * "Betty"
 * "Polarities"
 * "Under Glass"
 * "The Grave of the Famous Poet"
 * "Hair Jewellery"
 * "When it Happens"
 * "A Travel Piece"
 * "The Resplendent Quetzal"
 * "Training"
 * "Lives of the Poets"
 * "Dancing Girls"
 * "The Sin Eater"
 * "Giving Birth"

This effectively swaps "The War in the Bathroom" and "Rape Fantasies" for "Betty" and "The Sin Eater".