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| Alternate Table of Contents--A Historical Chronology of Writers | |
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| Alternate Table of Contents--Thematic Approaches to Women's Literature | |
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| Preface | |
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| Engendering Language, Silence, and Voice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| A Room of One's Own | |
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| Talking Back | |
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| Letter to Lord Boniface | |
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| Letter to Archbishop Anselm | |
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| Letter to Pope Pascal | |
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| from A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, upon the 51 Psalm | |
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| The Author ... Maketh Her Will and Testament | |
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| from The Manner of Her Will | |
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| The Poetess's Hasty Resolution | |
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| The Poetess's Petition | |
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| An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Verses | |
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| Nature's Cook | |
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| from To All Writing Ladies | |
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| Upon the Saying that My Verses Were Made by Another | |
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| On a Picture Painted by Herself | |
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| The Introduction | |
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| A Nocturnal Reverie | |
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| Ardelia to Melancholy | |
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| Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia | |
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| The Answer | |
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| from The Diary of Frances Burney | |
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| from Letters for Literary Ladies | |
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| Northanger Abbey | |
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| Introduction to Frankenstein | |
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| Letter from Robert Southey | |
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| Letter to Robert Southey | |
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| Letter to George Henry Lewes | |
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| [Alone I Sat; the Summer Day] | |
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| To Imagination | |
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| The Night Wind | |
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| R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida | |
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| [No Coward Soul is Mine] | |
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| Stanzas | |
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| Silly Novels by Lady Novelists | |
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| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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| A Journey | |
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| from Patriarchal Poetry | |
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| from Dust Tracks on a Road | |
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| My Muse | |
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| A Dream of Comparison | |
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| Thoughts about the Person from Porlock | |
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| Journey Toward Poetry | |
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| The Muse as Medusa | |
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| Of the Muse | |
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| Seventeen Syllables | |
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| No Name Woman | |
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| Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers | |
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| In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens | |
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| To My Grandmother | |
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| from The Dressing Room | |
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| Turning the Moon into a Verb | |
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| Standing Female Nude | |
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| Litany | |
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| Mrs. Aesop | |
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| The Toilet | |
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| Sometimes When It Rains | |
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| The Dancer | |
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| Say No | |
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| Intertextualities | |
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| Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays | |
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| Group Writing and Performance Exercise | |
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| The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism | |
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| Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness | |
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| Writing Bodies/Bodies Writing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| The Laugh of the Medusa | |
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| Reading Houses, Writing Lives: The French Connection | |
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| The Wife's Lament (8th century?) | |
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| Wulf and Eadwacer (8th century?) | |
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| from The Book of Margery Kempe | |
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| Letters to her Valentine/fiance | |
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| Letter to her husband, John Paston | |
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| On Monsieur's Departure | |
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| When I was Fair and Young | |
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| from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | |
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| The Lucky Chance, or an Alderman's Bargain | |
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| A Virgin Life | |
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| from The New Atalantis | |
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| from The Female Spectator | |
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| from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself | |
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| Monna Innominata | |
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| from Ladies Almanack | |
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| To the Dogs | |
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| from Fatal Interview | |
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| The Abortion | |
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| In Celebration of My Uterus | |
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| For My Lover, Returning to His Wife | |
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| Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power | |
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| Love Poem | |
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| Chain | |
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| Restoration: A Memorial--9/18/91 | |
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| A Wife's Story | |
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| My Man Bovanne | |
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| That Year | |
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| The Language of the Brag | |
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| The Girl | |
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| Sex Without Love | |
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| Make-up and Other Crucial Questions | |
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| Fire | |
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| Deer Ghost | |
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| City of Fire | |
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| Heartshed | |
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| Madame Alaird's Breasts | |
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| I the Woman | |
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| Love Poem #1 | |
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| Close Shave | |
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| Other Lovers | |
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| Intertextualities | |
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| Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays | |
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| Group Writing and Performance Exercise | |
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| Who Was That Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Comedies of Aphra Behn | |
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| The Lesbian Other | |
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| Rethinking the Maternal | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Writing and Motherhood | |
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| Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing About Motherhood | |
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| from Showings | |
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| from The Book of Hunting | |
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| from The Mother's Blessing | |
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| from The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery | |
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| The Author to Her Book | |
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| Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
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| In Reference to her Children, 23 June, 1656 | |
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| To Lady Bute | |
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| Written for My Son, and Spoken by Him at His First Putting on Breeches | |
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| The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr. C-- | |
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| The Glow-Worm | |
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| Verses Intended to Have Been Prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline, but then Suppressed | |
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| Sonnet Addressed to My Mother | |
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| Death of an Infant | |
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| The Last Word of the Dying | |
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| Dream of the Dead | |
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| Casabianca | |
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| The Hebrew Mother | |
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| from The Exodus--Laws for the Mothers of Israel | |
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| The Awakening | |
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| Tell Me a Riddle | |
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| Stillborn | |
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| Letter | |
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| The mother | |
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| A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon | |
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| The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till | |
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| The Disquieting Muses | |
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| Medusa | |
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| Nick and the Candlestick | |
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| Childless Woman | |
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| Edge | |
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| June 20 | |
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| Daughters | |
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| Sarah's promise | |
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| Naomi watches as ruth sleeps | |
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| The Village Saint | |
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| Giving Birth | |
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| Good Housekeeping | |
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| A Long Story | |
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| A Gift from Somewhere | |
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| Poem for My Sons | |
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| One Whale, Singing | |
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| Demeter Mourning | |
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| Demeter, Waiting | |
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| Mother Love | |
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| La Guera | |
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| For the Color of My Mother | |
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| Genesis I:28 | |
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| Love Pig | |
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| In My Office at Bennington | |
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| After Reading Reznikoff | |
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| Prayer for My Children | |
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| Intertextualities | |
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| Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays | |
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| Creative Writing Exercise | |
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| Oral History Project | |
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| Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening | |
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| Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism | |
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| Identity and Difference | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire | |
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| Not You/Like You: Postcolonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference | |
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| The Doleful Lay of Clorinda | |
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| From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum | |
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| To the Excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her Receiving the name of Lucasia, and Adoption into our Society | |
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| Friendship's Mysteries, to my Dearest Lucasia | |
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| On Rosania's Apostasy, and Lucasia's Friendship | |
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| Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda, Parting at a Fountain | |
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| from The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed, Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | |
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| from The Black Slave Trade | |
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| On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
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| To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works | |
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| To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, and c. | |
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| from The Grasmere Journal | |
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| from Woman in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Poem 258 (There's a certain Slant of light,) | |
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| Poem 280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,) | |
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| Poem 303 (The Soul selects her own Society--) | |
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| Poem 341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes--) | |
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| Poem 365 (Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?) | |
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| Poem 508 (I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs--) | |
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| Poem 512 (The Soul has Bandaged moments--) | |
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| Poem 709 (Publication--is the Auction) | |
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| Poem 754 (My Life had Stood--a Loaded Gun--) | |
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| Poem 1072 (Title divine--is mine!) | |
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| I Sit and Sew | |
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| The Proletariat Speaks | |
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| The Tree-Bound | |
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| Trifles | |
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| The Fish | |
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| The Paper Nautilus | |
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| The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing | |
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| In Distrust of Merits | |
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| Like a Bulwark | |
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| The Doll's House | |
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| Why I Live at the P.O. | |
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| An Old Woman and Her Cat | |
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| We Are Going | |
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| Surface Textures | |
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| Molly Brant, Iroquois Matron, Speaks | |
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| Taku Skansken | |
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| Wolf Alice | |
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| A Cold Welcome | |
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| Xuela | |
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| Our Sharpeville | |
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| Small Passing | |
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| Transfer | |
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| Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays | |
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| Creative Writing Exercise | |
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| The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley | |
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| Selfish Desires: Dickinson's Poetic Ego and the Rites of Subjectivity | |
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| Resistance and Transformation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Notes toward a Politics of Location | |
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| Diving into the Wreck | |
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| from Inscriptions | |
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| Comrade | |
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| Movement | |
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| Origins | |
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| History | |
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| Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika (God Bless Africa) | |
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| from A Muzzle for Melastomus | |
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| from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies | |
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| The Liberty | |
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| from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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| from Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women | |
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| Ain't I a Woman? | |
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| Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring | |
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| from Society in America | |
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| Citizenship of People of Color | |
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| Political Nonexistence of Women | |
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| The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point | |
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| A Curse for a Nation | |
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| The Slave Mother | |
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| Free Labor | |
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| An Appeal to My Country Women | |
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| Learning to Read | |
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| Life in the Iron-Mills | |
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| Soap and Water | |
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| Eurydice | |
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| Oread | |
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| from The Walls Do Not Fall (I-IV) | |
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| Bubble of Air | |
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| from Letter to the Front (VII) | |
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| Kathe Kollwitz | |
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| Despisals | |
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| Amnesty | |
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| The Chosen Image | |
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| Still I Rise | |
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| Recitatif | |
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| Vinegar Tom | |
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| from Bashert | |
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| Death camp | |
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| Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn/A few words in the mother tongue | |
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| Inscriptions | |
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| Writing in a Time of Violence | |
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| Bowl Like Hole | |
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| The Colonel | |
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| Message | |
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| Ourselves or Nothing | |
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| The Garden Shukkei-en | |
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| The Testimony of Light | |
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| Fleur | |
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| Intertextualities | |
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| Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays | |
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| Group Research Assignment | |
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| Sexual Exploitation and Freedom: Religion, Race, and Gender in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" | |
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| "Ar'n't I a Woman?" | |
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| Historical Appendices | |
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| Old English and Middle English Literature--449-1485 | |
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| Renaissance and Early Seventeenth-Century Literature--1485-1660 | |
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| Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Literature--1660-1800 | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Literature--1800-1900 | |
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| Modernist Literature--1900-1945 | |
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| Contemporary Literature--1945-2000 | |
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| Selected Bibliographies | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |