Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-295) and index.
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?