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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| from The Hiad (c. 750-725 B.C.E.) translated by Richmond Lattimore Medusa as Shield and Sign | |
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| from The Shield of Herakles and Theogony (c. 700 B.C.E.) translated by Richmond Lattimore Medusa and Perseus | |
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| "Pythian 12" (c. 490 B.C.E.) translated by Geoffrey S. Conway Medusa and Music | |
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| from Ion (c. 413 B.C.E.) translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts The Power of Gorgon's Blood | |
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| "The Daughters of Phorcys" (fourth century B.C.E.) from On Unbelievable Tales translated by Jacob Stern A Rationalist View | |
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| from The Library (second century B.C.E.) translated by James George Frazer The Beauty of Medusa | |
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| from The Historical Library (c. 60 30 B.C.E.) translated by G. Booth The Gorgons and the Amazons in Africa | |
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| from Metamorphoses (c. 43 B.C.E. 17 C.E.) translated by Rolfe Humphries The Story of Perseus | |
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| from Pharsalia (c. 61-65) translated by Robert Graves Medusa and the Snakes of Libya | |
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| from The Hall (c. 120-180) translated by A. M. Harmon The Sirens and the Gorgons | |
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| from Description of Greece (c. 143-176) translated by W. H. S. Jones Another Rationalist View | |
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| from The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon (second century) translated by John Winkler Medusa and the Power of Ekphrasis | |
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| from Mythologies (late fifth--early sixth centuries) translated by Leslie G. Whitbread Terror and Manliness | |
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| from The Chronicle (sixth century) translated by Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, and Roger Scott The Sorcery of Perseus | |
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| from Inferno (c. 1310-1314) translated by Allen Mandelbaum Virgil, Dante, and Medusa | |
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| Rime Sparse, #197 (c. 1327-1374) translated by Robert M. Durling | |
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| from On the Labors of Hercules (c. 1381-1391) translated by Lesley Lundeen Medusa as Artful Eloquence | |
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| from The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards Medusa's Beauty | |
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| from The Philosophy of Love (1535) translated by F. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes Allegorical Meanings | |
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| from the "Life of Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor" (1550) translated by George Bull Leonardo Paints the Head of Medusa | |
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| from Mythologies (1551) translated by Anthony DiMatteo Beauty and Pleasure | |
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| from Images of the Gods (1556) translated by Walter Hryshko Imaging Medusa | |
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| from his preface to the Orlando Furioso (1591) Allegories of Man and Earth | |
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| "Perseus, or War," from The Wisdom of the Ancients (1609) translated by James Spedding Tyranny and the Art of War | |
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| "The Statue of Medusa" (1616) | |
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| from Faust (1808) translated by Stuart Atkins Gretchen and Medusa | |
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| "On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery" (1819) | |
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| from Capital (1867) translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling The Medusa of Capitalist Production | |
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| "Aspecta Medusa" (1870) | |
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| from The Birth of Tragedy (1872) translated by Walter Kaufmann Medusa, Apollo, and Dionysus | |
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| "The Head and the Snakes" (1899) A Story for Children | |
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| "Medusa" (1921) | |
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| "Medusa's Head" and from "The Infantile Genital Organization" (1922 and 1923) translated by James Strachey The Classic Psychoanalytic Reading | |
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| from "On the Symbolism of the Head of Medusa" (1923) translated by Olive Edmonds Medusa and Castration | |
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| "Medusa" (1935) | |
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| from "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1939) translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin Medusa and Modernity | |
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| from Generation of Vipers (1942) Momism | |
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| from Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology (1943) translated by Hazel E. Barnes The Other's Look | |
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| "Medusa" (1946) | |
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| from The Origins and History of Consciousness (1949) translated by R. F. C. Hull A Jungian View of the Terrible Mother | |
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| "Perseus" and "Medusa" (1958 and 1962) | |
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| from The Mask of Medusa (1960) translated by George Ordish The Gorgon Mask | |
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| "Tableau Vivant" (1968) | |
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| "The Muse as Medusa" (1971) | |
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| from "Medusa: The Letter and the Spirit" (1972) On Dante's Medusa | |
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| "Medusa Head Picture" from Pleasures of Crewel (1972) Embroidering Your Own Medusa | |
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| from "The Look of the Gorgon" (1974) Sartre and the Existentialist Medusa | |
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| from Glas (1974) translated by John P. Leavey, Jr., and Richard Rand The Gorgon and the Jew | |
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| from Roland Barthes (1975) translated by Richard Howard The Jellyfish "Medusa" and the Power to Stun | |
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| from "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975) translated by Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen A Classic of Feminist Theory | |
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| "A Navy Blue Afro" (1976) | |
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| from To Destroy Painting (1977) translated by Mette Hjort Caravaggio's "Head of Medusa": A Theoretical Perspective | |
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| "Medusa" (1977) | |
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| from "Difference" (1978) On "The Look for the Woman" | |
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| from The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings (1980) translated by Catherine Porter A Feminist Rereading of Freud's Medusa | |
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| from Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience (1981) An Anthropological View | |
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| from "Medusa's Head: Male Hysteria under Political Pressure" (1983) Medusa in the French Revolution | |
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| from The Mirror of Medusa (1983) Medusa as Double | |
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| from "Desire in Narrative" (1984) Medusa in Cinema | |
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| from "The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours" (1984) Rape and Silence in the Medusa Story | |
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| from "The Medusa Effect or, The Specular Ruse" (1984) Barbara Kruger and the Medusa Effect | |
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| from "Death in the Eyes" and "In the Mirror of Medusa" (1985) translated by Thomas Curley and Froma I. Zeitlin Frontality and Monstrosity | |
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| from "The blazon of sweet beauty's best': Shakespeare's Lucrece" (1985) The Face of Medusa | |
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| from "Ancient Gorgons: A Face For Contemporary Women's Rage" (1986) Experiencing My Gorgon Self | |
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| "Medusa" (1987) | |
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| from "Macbeth: The Male Medusa" (1987) Shakespeare's "New Gorgon" | |
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| "Medusa" (1989) | |
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| "Grown Older ..." (1989) translated by Francis Michael Sharp Medusa by Free Association | |
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| from The Jew's Body (1991) The Syphilitic Woman | |
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| "The Gorgon, Paradigm of Image Creation" (1993) translated by Seth Graebner Medusa as Maker of Images | |
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| from "Berggasse 19: Inside Freud's Office" (1996) Medusa in the Mirror | |
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| from "Who's looking at Who(m): Re-viewing Medusa" (1996) Medusa in Theater and Performance Art | |
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| from "The Versace Moment" by Mark Seal (1996) Seduction | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Sources and Permissions | |