Table of contents:

Introduction: the story so far / Catherine Belsy and Jane Moore --
Women and literay history / Dale Spender --
The true story of how I became my own person / Rosalind Coward --
Disturbing nurses and the kindness of sharks / Toni Morrison --
Queer desire in The well of loneliness / Line Pouchard --
The difference of view / Mary Jacobus --
Representing women: re-presenting the past / Gillian Beer --
Sorties: out and out: attacks/ways out/forays / Hélène Cixous. Feminist, female, feminine / Toril Moi --
Women and madness: the critical phallacy / Shoshana Felman --
Promises, promises: the fictional philosophy in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the rights of woman / Jane Moore --
Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak --
Cross-dressing, gender and representation: Elvis Presley / Marjorie Garber --
Feminism and the postmodern: theory's romance / Diane Elam. Women's time / Julia Kristeva --
The looking glass, from the other side / Luce Irigaray.