Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index.
Contents
Liberal, materialist and socialist literary feminisms -- Images of women criticsm [sic] -- Woman as writer: forging female traditions -- Psychoanalysis and/or feminism -- Julia Kristeva: rewriting the subject -- 'Mirror, mirror': Luce Irigaray and reflections of and on the feminine -- Cixous: laughing at the oppositions -- Differences of view and viewing the differences: challenging female traditions -- Reading the boys' own stories: The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The picture of Dorian Gray and Heart of darkness -- Reading the writing on the wall: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The yellow wall-paper' -- Afterword: the mark on the wall: marking differences, marking time.