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  • PART I: HISTORIES
  • 1. Liberal, materialists and socialists literary feminisms
  • Mary Wollestonecraft: vndicating the liberal-individual woman
  • Analysing materialism: reading as a socialst feminist?
  • There is always another side, always...widening the view
  • 2. Images of women criticism
  • The ways we looked - then
  • Looking again at looking
  • The ways we look now?
  • 3. The woman as writer: forgoing female traditions
  • The 'problem' of quality
  • Early makers of female traditions: Patricia Mayer Spacks and Ellen Moers
  • Developing the female tradition: Elaine Showalter, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
  • The limits of one female tradition
  • PART II: (PSYCHO)ANALYSES
  • 4. Psychoanalysis and/or feminism?
  • Freud
  • Lacan
  • 5. Julia Kristeva: rewriting the subject
  • Reading with mother?
  • 6. 'Mirror, mirror...': Luce Irigaray and reflections of and osychoanalysis
  • Speech is never neuter/neutral
  • Politics and French feminism
  • Reading with Irigaray: three gothic reflections
  • 7. Cixous: laughing at the oppositions
  • Reading with Cixous
  • PART III: DIFFERENCES
  • 8. Differences of vies and viewing the differences: challenging female traditions
  • Ain't I a woman?
  • Ghosts, traces and sexuel 'Others': lesbian feminist theories
  • Queering the patch: Majorie Garber, Judith Butler and the slippage of identity
  • PART IV: READINGS
  • 9. Reading the boys' own stories: "The strange case od Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "The picture of Dorian Gray" and "Heart of Darkness"
  • Reading the stereotypes
  • Case-notes: Stevenson's "Jekyll and Hyde"
  • As pretty as a picture? Wilde's "Dorian Gray"
  • Civilisation and its discontents: "Heart of Darkness"
  • About these readings
  • 10. Reading the writing on the wall: Charlotte Perkins Gilmann's 'The Yellow Wall-paper'
  • Afterword: The mark on the wall - marking differences, marking time
  • Where now? How now?