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Table of Contents: “…Language, theme, and image in Laurence: Margaret Laurence: novelist-as-poet /…”

Subjects: “…Fuller, Margaret, -- 1810-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.…”

Subjects: “…Atwood, Margaret, -- 1939- -- Study and teaching.…”

Table of Contents: “…Toulouse --Essential, portable, mythical Margaret Fuller / Jary Loeffelholz -- Emily Dickinson in history and literary history / Margaret Dickie -- María Amparo Ruiz de Burton negotiates American literary politics and culture / Amerlia María de la Luz Montes -- Edith Wharton's ironic realism / Carol J. …”

Subjects: “…Atwood, Margaret, -- 1939- -- Political and social views.…”

Table of Contents: “…Early stages : women dramatists 1958-68 / Lib Taylor -- Claiming a space : 1969-78 / Margaret Llewellyn-Jones -- Waving not drowning : the mainstream, 1979-88 / Trevor R. …”

Subjects: “…Atwood, Margaret, -- 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Margaret Atwood's monstrous, dismembered, cannibalized, and (sometimes) reborn female bodies : The robber bride and other texts -- Fitcher's and Frankenstein's gaze in Atwood's Oryx and crake -- The writer as crone goddess in Atwood's The Penelopiad and Lessing's The memoirs of a survivor -- Mythic quests for the word and postcolonial identity : Lessing's The story of General Dann and Mara's daughter, Griot and the snow dog, and Morrison's Beloved -- Erdrich's community as home : The wizard of Oz, the Ramayana, and Greek and Native American myth in The beet queen -- Silenced women in Rosario Ferre's The youngest doll : "Sleeping Beauty," "The red shoes," "Cinderella," "Fitcher's bird" -- Enchantment, transformation, and rebirth in Iris Murdoch's The green knight -- Bluebeard's Forbidden room in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- Fairy tales and myth in Keri Hulme's The bone people -- Conclusion.…”

Subjects: “…Atwood, Margaret, -- 1939- -- Lady Oracle.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The incandescent home : Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Women writing in the Twentieth Century : the novel and social change -- Mad housewives and closed circles : mad housewife fiction of the sixties and seventies -- "Old stories" : Erica Jong's Fear of flying and Gail Godwin's The Odd woman -- Doris Lessing's The Golden notebook : naming in a different way -- Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall : new system, new morality -- Margaret Laurence's The Diviners : changing the past -- Margaret Atwood's Lady oracle : going off gothics -- Whatever happened to feminist fiction?…”

Table of Contents: “…Married love and its consequences -- Virtuous libertines and liberated virgins : Sir Charles Grandison -- "No small part of a woman's portion" : love, duty, and society in Persuasion -- Feminism and contract theory in He knew he was right -- Margaret Oliphant's women who want too much -- Liberalism and feminism : the end of the line.…”

Table of Contents: “…Selling the American new woman as Gibson Girl -- Margaret Murray Washington, Pauline Hopkins, and the new Negro woman -- Incorporating the new woman in Edith Wharton's The custom of the country -- Sui Sin Far and the wisdom of the new -- Mary Johnston, Ellen Glasgow, and the evolutionary logic of progressive reform -- Willa Cather and the fluid mechanics of the new woman.…”

Table of Contents: “…Prostitution, performance, and Mae West: speaking from the whore position -- Betty Boutell, "whom all the town fucks": constructing the actress/whore -- Memoir and masquerade: Charlotte Charke, Margaret Leeson, and eighteenth-century performances of self -- Burlesque, breeches, and blondes: illegitimate nineteenth-century cultural and theatrical performance -- "We need status as actresses!"…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jean Radford -- The Greek romance / Margaret Williamson -- The politics of seduction in English popular culture, 1748-1848 / Anna Clark -- How green was my valley / Derrick Price -- An inverted romance / Jean Radford -- Gone with the wind / Helen Taylor -- Writing fictions / Alison Light -- Family romances / Christine Bridgwood -- Mills & Boon meets feminism / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Write, she said / Michele Roberts.…”

Table of Contents: “…Stein -- Gothic transformations : Isak Dinesen and the gothic / Sibyl James -- The mirror and the cameo : Margaret Atwood's comic/gothic novel, Lady Oracle / Sybil Korff Vincent -- [III. …”

Table of Contents: “…Widow, prophet, and poet: lyrical self-figurations in Katherine Austen's 'Book M' (1664) / Pamela Hammons -- 'Public' and 'private' in Aphra Behn's miscellanies: women writers, print, and manuscript / Anne Russell -- 'Household affaires are the opium of the soul': Damaris Masham and the necessity of women's poetry / Margaret J.M. Ezell -- Mary Wroth's guilty 'secrett art': the poetics of jealousy in Pamphilia to amphilanthus / Clare R. …”

Table of Contents: “…Anne Hutchinson -- Anne Bradstreet -- Mary (White) Rowlandson -- Sarah Kemble Knight -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Abigail Adams -- Hannah Mather Crocker -- Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton -- Harriot Kezia Hunt -- (Sarah) Margaret Fuller -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mary Ashton Rice Livermore -- Lucy Larcom -- Rose Terry Cooke -- Louisa May Alcott -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Mary E. …”

Table of Contents: “…Broner's A weave of women -- No shadow without light : Louky Bersianik's The Eugélionne and Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Company as the Country: On the Malay Peninsula with Isabella Bird and Emily Innes -- Ch. 6. "One's Own State": Margaret Brooke, Harriette McDougall, and Sarawak -- Ch. 7. …”

Table of Contents: “…May Sarton / Janet Todd -- Erica Jong / Wendy Martin -- Grace Paley / Ruth Perry -- Maya Angelou / Cheryl Wall -- Marilyn French / Janet Todd -- Alison Lurie / Dorothy Mermin -- Robin Morgan / Helen Cooper -- Diane Johnson / Janet Todd -- Germaine Greer / Joseph Kestner -- Margaret Drabble / Gillian Parker & Janet Todd -- A.S. …”

Table of Contents: “…/ Angela Phillips -- Women in newspapers / Mary Stott -- On the edge / Irving Weinman -- The dialogue of gender / Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove -- Imagination and gender / Pam Gems -- Art and reason / Eva Figes -- A woman writer / Margaret Drabble -- Me and my shadows / Fay Weldon.…”

Table of Contents: “…McFarland -- Louise Gluck, feminism and nature in Firstborn's "The egg" / Mary Kate Azcuy -- Ecofeminism, motherhood, and the post-apocalyptic utopia in Parable of the sower, Parable of the talents, and Into the forest / Heidi Hutner -- Natural resistance: Margaret Atwood as ecofeminist or apocalyptic visionary / H. …”

Table of Contents: “…Sexual indifference and lesbian representation / Teresa de Lauretis -- "Lesbian" subjectivity in realism : dragging at the margins of structure and ideology / Jill Dolan -- Frame-up : feminism, psychoanalysis, theatre / Barbara Freedman -- Hélène Cixous's 'Portrait de Dora' : the unseen and the un-scene / Sharon Willis -- Refusing the romanticism of identity : narrative interventions in Churchill, Benmussa, Duras / Elin Diamond -- The cult of true womanhood : toward a womanist attitude in African-American theatre / Glenda Dickerson -- 'A raisin in the sun' : anniversary of an American classic / Margaret Wilkerson -- The female subject in Chicano theatre : sexuality, "race," and class / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- Beyond Brecht : Britain's new feminist drama / Janelle Reinelt -- Feminism and the Jewish subject in the plays of Sachs, Atlan, and Schenkar / Vivian Patraka.…”

Table of Contents: “…Women's poetry and the Tudor-Stuart system of gift exchange / Jane Donawerth -- "More than feminine boldness" : the gift books of Esther Inglis / Georgianna Ziegler -- Patronage and class in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum / Mary Ellen Lamb -- The education of a prince(ss) : tutoring the Tudors / Kathi Vosevich -- "When riches growes" : class perspective in Pembroke's Psalmes / Margaret P. Hannay -- Queen, lover, poet : a question of balance in the sonnets of Mary, Queen of Scots / Mary E. …”

Table of Contents: “…Wragge goes into custody / Deirdre David -- Fictions of feminine voice : antiphony and silence in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Henry James and the uses of the feminine / William Veeder -- Gesturing toward an open space : gender, form, and language in E.M. …”

Table of Contents: “…Ms. Sammler's planet : Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, and Joanna Russ rescue the female child's story.…”

Table of Contents: “…The occult of true black womanhood : critical demeanor and black feminist studies / Ann duCille -- Doing justice to the subjects : mimetic art in a multicultural society : the work of Anna Deavere Smith / Tania Modleski -- "Racial composition" : Metaphor and the body in the writing of race / Margaret Homans -- Black writing, white reading : race and the politics of feminist interpretation / Elizabeth Abel -- "All the things you could be by now, if Sigmund Freud's wife was your mother" : psychoanalysis and race / Hortense J. …”

Table of Contents: “…Wells Barnett -- "Brutality to women" / Harriet Martineau -- "Woman alone can free herself" / Margaret Sanger -- "Racism, birth control, and reproductive rights" / Angela Davis -- A life-long friendship / Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. …”

Table of Contents: “…Brown -- Virtuous Transactions: A Reading of Three Short Stories by Ling Shuhua / Rey Chow -- Images of Subjugation and Defiance: Female Characters in the Early Dramas of Tian Han / Randy Kaplan -- Female Images and National Myth / Meng Yue -- Writing with Your Body: Literature as a Wound -- Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting / Wolfgang Kubin -- Harmony and Equality: Notes on "Mimosa" and "Ark" / Chen Yu-shih -- Three Interviews: Wang Anyi, Zhu Lin, Dai Qing / Wang Zheng -- In the Translator's Eye: On the Significance of Zhu Lin / Richard King -- Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang among Taiwan's Feminine Writers / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang -- Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue's Resistance and Cultural Critique / Jon Solomon -- Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife / Sheung-Yuen Daisy Ng -- Political Evaluation and Reevaluation in Contemporary Chinese Fiction / Margaret H. Decker.…”

Table of Contents: “…Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614-1702): Women's Speaking Justified (1666) -- 5. …”

Table of Contents: “…Spillers -- Women of color writers and feminist theory / Margaret Homans -- Another cause: castration / Luce Irigaray -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- The situation of the looker-on: gender, narration, and gaze in Wuthering Heights / Beth Newman -- When Virginia looked at Vita, what did she see; or Lesbian: feminist: woman : what's the differ(e/a)nce? …”