Introduction / Gill Plain and Susan Sellers
Part I. Pioneers and Protofeminism
Introduction / Gill Plain
Medieval feminist criticism / Carolyn Dinshaw
Feminist criticism in the Renaissance and seventeenth century / Helen Wilcox
Mary Wollstonecraft and her legacy / Susan Manly
The feminist criticism of Virginia Woolf / Jane Goldman
Simone de Beauvoir and the demystification of woman / Elizabeth Fallaize
Part II. Creating a Feminist Literary Criticism
Introduction / Gill Plain and Susan Sellers
Literary representations of women / Mary Eagleton
A history of women's writing / Helen Carr
Autobiography and personal criticism / Linda Anderson
Black feminist criticism / Arlene Keizer
Lesbian feminist criticism / Caroline Gonda
Men and feminist criticism / Calvin Thomas
Part III. Poststructuralism and Beyond
Introduction / Gill Plain and Susan Sellers
Feminist criticism and poststructuralism / Claire Colebrook
Feminist criticism and psychoanalysis / Madelon Sprengnether
French feminist criticism and writing the body / Judith Still
Postcolonial feminist criticism / Chris Weedon
Feminist criticism and queer theory / Heather Love
Feminist criticism and technologies of the body / Stacy Gillis
Postscript: flaming feminism? / Susan Gubar.
