Chapter 1 Feminist scholarship and the social construction of woman, Gayle Greene, Coppélia Kahn; Chapter 2 Varieties of feminist criticism, Sydney Janet Kaplan; Chapter 3 The politics of language: beyond the gender principle?, Nelly Furman; Chapter 4 Inscribing femininity: French theories of the feminine, Ann Rosalind Jones; Chapter 5 Mind mother: psychoanalysis and feminism, Judith Kegan Gardiner; Chapter 6 Pandora’s box: subjectivity, class and sexuality in socialist feminist criticism, Cora Kaplan; Chapter 7 What has never been: an overview of lesbian feminist criticism, Bonnie Zimmerman; Chapter 8 Black women writers: taking a critical perspective, Susan Willis; Chapter 9 Notorious signs, feminist criticism and literary tradition, Adrienne Munich;
Gayle Greene is Associate Professor English at Scripps College, Claremont, Ca. Coppelia Kahn is Professor of English at Brown University, Providence, RI. The other contributors are Nelly Furman, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Ann Rosalind Jones, Cora Kaplan, Sydney Janet Kaplan, Adrienne Munich, Susan Willis and Bonnie Zimmerman.