Introduction : Feminist critical revolution / Elaine Showalter
Bringing the spirit back to English studies / Carolyn G. Heilbrun
What do feminist critics want? A postcard from the volcano / Sandra M. Gilbert
A map for rereading : gender and the interpretation literary text / Annette Kolodny
Melodramas of beset manhood : how theories of American fiction exclude women authors / Nina Baym
Sentimental power : Uncle Tom's cabin and the politics of literary history / Jane P. Tompkins
Treason our text : feminist challenges to the literary canon / Lillian S. Robinson
Toward a feminist poetics / Elaine Showalter
Dancing through the minefield : some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism / Annette Kolodny
Toward a Black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith
New directions for Black feminist criticism / Deborah E. McDowell
What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist criticism / Bonnie Zimmerman
Are women's novels feminist novels? / Rosalind Coward
Feminist criticism in the wilderness / Elaine Showalter
For the Etruscans / Rachel Blau DuPlessis
"The blank page" and the issues of female creativity / Susan Gubar
Thieves of language : women poets and revisionist mythmaking / Alicia Ostriker
Emphasis added : plots and plausibilities in women's fiction / Nancy K. Miller
Writing the body : toward an understanding of l'ecriture feminine / Ann Rosalind Jones.