Women's roles and influence in Mark Twain's The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Melissa McFarland Pennell
The war against the feminine : Erich Maria Remarque's All quiet on the Western front / Mary Warner
"Doctor she"! : Helena and sisterhood in Shakespeare's All's well that ends well / Terry Reilly
Mother, wife, fallen woman : marital choice in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina / Lucy Melbourne
"Young lady" or "slut" : identity and voice in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Lucy Melbourne


Righteous activist or confrontational madwoman : Sophocles' Antigone / Karen Bovard
Female resistance to gender conformity in Kate Chopin's The awakening / Dana Kinnison
Mothers and children in Barbara Kingsolver's The bean trees / Mary Jean DeMarr
William Faulkner's male myth : The bear / Kim Martin Long
More than skin deep : Robin McKinley's Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast / Ellen R. Sackelman
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar : trapped by the feminist mystique / Laurie F. Leach
Toni Morrison's Beloved : maternal possibilities, sisterly bonding / Monika M. Elbert
Richard Wright's Black boy and Black women / Kenneth Florey
Culture, tradition, family : gender roles in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima / Montye P. Fuse
Girls into women : culture, nature, and self-loathing in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Barbara Frey Waxman


Founding women's history : Christine de Pizan writes The book of the city of ladies / Ellen S. Silber
A dystopic vision of gender in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world / Cristie L. March
An immigrant girl's quest for the American Dream in Anzia Yezierska's Bread givers / Norah C. Chase
As my mother's daughter : Breath, eyes, memory by Edwidge Danticat / Eileen Burchell
Non-conformists and traditionalists : Buchi Emecheta's The bride price / Osayimwense Osa
The symbolic annihilation of women in Jack London's The call of the wild / Michelle Napierski-Prancl
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury tales : gender in the Middle Ages / Michael G. Cornelius
Sex, violence, and Peter Pan : J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the rye / Paul Bail
Paths to liberation in Alice Walker's The color purple / Ernece B. Kelly
The women in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment / Sydney Schultze


Witch-hunting, thwarted desire, and girl power : Arthur Miller's The crucible / Karen Bovard
"A nice girl ought to know!" : Henry James' Daisy Miller / Laurie F. Leach
Redefining female absence in Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman / Dana Kinnison
Black and white womanhood in Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose : mammies, ladies, and rebels / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Anne Frank's The diary of a young girl : writing a self, the female adolescent voice / Hedda Rosner Kopf
The slammed door that still reverberates : Henrik Ibsen's A doll's house / Ann R. Shapiro
Frozen lives : Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome / Melissa McFarland Pennell
Catherine Barkley : Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms / Suzanne del Gizzo
The invisible black female artist in Alice Childress' Florence / Nassim W. Balestrini
Daring creation : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Lucy Morrison


Shattered rainbows in translucent glass : Tennessee Williams' The glass menagerie / Nassim W. Balestrini
What it means to be a lady : Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind / Jane Marcellus
Patriarchy and property : women in Pearl S. Buck's The good Earth / Eleanor Pam
No expectations at all : women in Charles Dickens' Great expectations / James R. Simmons, Jr.
Beautiful fools and hulking brutes : F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby / Linda C. Pelzer
Reading between the lines : connecting with Gertrude and Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet / Elizabeth Klett
Freedom reconsidered : Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Magali Cornier Michael
When women shape the world : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland / Jerilyn Fisher
Girls and women in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street / Darlene Pagán


Living in a borderland : cultural expectations of gender in Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia girls lost their accents / Karen Castellucci Cox
A song of freedom : Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / Yolanda Pierce
Good mother, bad mother in Joanne Greenberg's I never promised you a rose garden / Paul Bail
Bobbie Ann Mason's In country : a girl's quest for her father and herself / Jeanne-Marie Zeck
The invisible women in Ralph Ellison's invisible man / Yolanda Pierce
Be true to yourself : Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre / Barbara Z. Thaden
"Thinking different" in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Cecile Mazzucco-Than
Gender bending : Ursula Le Guin's The left hand of darkness / Marianne Pita
What a teacher learns : Ernest J. Gaines' A lesson before dying / Elise Ann Earthman
The foreignness of femininity in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim / Laura McPhee


Boy's club, no girls allowed : absence as presence in William Golding's Lord of the flies / Paula Alida Roy
Unnatural : women in William Shakespeare's Macbeth / Elizabeth Klett
Emma Rouault Bovary : gendered reflections in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert / Eileen Burchell
The road to nowhere : Stephen Crane's Maggie : a girl of the streets (A story of New York) / Marsha Orgeron
(Re)surfacing Main Street by Sinclair Lewis / Shirley P. Brown
Critiquing "the we of me" : gender roles in Carson McCullers' The member of the wedding / Elise Ann Earthman
Beauty and gender in Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin
Where no role fits : Maggie's predicament in George Eliot's The mill on the floss / Missy Dehn Kubitschek
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : epic tale of male destruction / Kim Martin Long


Images of possibility : gender identity in Willa Cather's My Antonia / Dana Kinnison
The good woman : Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve / Shakuntala Bharvani
Boyhood unraveled : Elie Wiesel's Night / Sara R. Horowitz
Sexuality as rebellion in George Orwell's 1984 / Paul Bail
Homer's Odyssey : "The Iliad's wife" / Deborah Ross
Jocasta and her daughters : women in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex / Paula Alida Roy
Women stripped of humanity : John Steinbeck's Of mice and men / Lesley Broder
Role traps in Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Michelle Napierski-Prancl
Under the burden of yellow peril : race, class, and gender in Yoshiko Uchida's Picture bride / Montye P. Fuse
Woman and art in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man / Maria Margaroni
Truths universally acknowledged : stereotypes of women in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice / Missy Dehn Kubitschek


Undue influence in Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Cristie L. March
Exploring the gender puzzle of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion / Michael G. Cornelius
Seasoned with quiet strength : Black womanhood in Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Neal A. Lester
Heroism against the odds : William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Lesley Broder
Molly bolts and lifelines : Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit jungle / Frances Ann Day
"A" as Hester's autonomy in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Monika M. Elbert
Female freedom in other places and inner spaces : Suzanne Fisher Staples' Shabanu : daughter of the wind / Zarina Manawwar Hock
Gender in Silas Marner by George Eliot / Debra S. Davis
Empowerment through writing in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter / Ellen S. Silber
Wearing "Her favour in the battle" : the "go-between" in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and lovers / Maria Margaroni


Riding Tennessee Williams' A streetcar named Desire / Elise Ann Earthman
Agent or victim : Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Paula Alida Roy
An African-American woman's journey of self-discovery in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Ken Silber
Fragmenting culture, fragmenting lives : Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Rebekah Hamilton
"Just a lady" : gender and power in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / Michele S. Ware
Women righting wrongs : morality and justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles / Jerilyn Fisher
"For such as we are made of, such we be" : the construction of gender in William Shakespeare's Twelfth night, or What you will / Terry Reilly
The power of mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin / Denise Kohn
A Chinese-American woman warrior comes of age : Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Susan Currier


The will to survive in Gloria Naylor's The women of Brewster Place / Loretta G. Woodard
Procrustean bed : gender roles in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights / Barbara Z. Thaden
Negotiating tight spaces : women in Michael Dorris' A yellow raft in blue water / Elizabeth J. Wright
Appendix. Thematic list of books.