Foreword by Colin MacCabe. Author’s Note. One: Literature
1. The Letter as Cutting Edge
2. Finding Feminist Readings: Dante-Yeats
3. Unmaking and Making in To the Lighthouse
4. Sex and History in The Prelude (1805): Books Nine to Thirteen
5. Feminism and Critical Theory Two: Into the World
6. Reading the Worlds: Literary Studies in the Eighties
7. Explanation and Culture: Marginalia
8. The Politics of Interpretations
9. French Feminism in an International Frame
10. Scattered Speculations on the Questions of Value Three: Entering the Third World
11. "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi
12. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography
13. "Breast-Giver" by Mahasweta Devi
14. A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: A Woman’s Text from the Third World. Notes