1. Introduction
Part1: Knowledges
2. Feminist Aesthetics and the New Realism
3. Walking, Women and Writing: Virginia Woolf as flaneuse
4. Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilinear Thought
5. An Other Space: A Future for Feminism
Part2: Subjectivities
6. Releasing Possibility into Form: Cultural Choice and the Woman Writer
7. Fakes and Femininity: Vita Sackville-West and her Mother
8. The Dangers of Angela Carter
Part3: Languages
9. Love, Mourning and Metaphor: Terms of Identity
10. Why the Lady’s Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
11. Unsilent Instruments and the Devil’s Cushions: Authority in Seventeenth-century Women’s Prophetic Discourse
Part4: Representations
12. Getting down to Basics: Art, Obscenity and the Female Nude
13. Do or Die: Problems of Agency and Gender in the Aesthetics of Murder
14. The Politics of Focus: Feminism and Photography Theory
15. The Hand of the Huntress: Repetition and Malory’s Morte Darthur
Part5: Others
16. New Hystericism: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: the Body, the Text and the Feminist Critic
17. The Great Distinction: Figures of the Exotic in the Work of William Hodges
18. ‘Because Men Made the Laws;: The Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet