Part 1 Theory and Context; Chapter 1 Feminism(s) and Writing in English in South Africa, Cecily Lockett; Chapter 2 Who Theorizes?, Sisi Maqagi; Chapter 3 The Future of South African Feminism, Pamela Ryan; Chapter 4 Writing Feminism/Theoretical Inscriptions in South Africa, Jenny de Reuck; Chapter 5 To Hear the Variety of Discourses, Zoë Wicomb; Chapter 6 The Authority of Experience or the Tyranny of Discourse, David Schalkwyk; Chapter 7 French Feminism in a South African Frame?, Jill Arnott; Chapter 8 The Politics of Feminism in South Africa, Desiree Lewis; Part 2 Reading, Writing, and Criticism; Chapter 9 Workshop on Black Women's Writing and Reading, Boitumelo Mofokeng, Thandi Moses, Sanna Naidoo, Lebohang Sikwe, Veni Soobrayan, Nomble Tokwe, M.J. Daymond, Margaret Lenta; Chapter 10 The Space Between Frames, Judith Lütge Coullie; Chapter 11 Nazarite Women, Religious Narrative and the Construction of Cultural Truth and Power, Carol Muller; Chapter 12 The Art of the Possible, Margaret Lenta; Chapter 13 Pauline Smith and the Crisis of Daughterhood, Dorothy Driver; Chapter 14 Metonymies of Colonialism in Four Handsome Negresses by Ethelreda Lewis, Wendy Woodward; Chapter 15 Inventing Gendered Traditions, M.J. Daymond; Chapter 16 Ruth Miller, Joan Metelerkamp; Chapter 17 A Poet's Commitment, P.P. van der Merwe; Chapter 18 Gordimer's Leap into the 90s, Karen Lazar; Chapter 19 A Correspondence without Theory, Brenda Bosman; Chapter 20 Now Is the Time for Feminist Criticism, Carol Steinberg; Chapter 21 The South African Literary Establishment and the Textual Production of ‘Woman’, Josephine Dodd;