Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. “Grins … without the cat” 1
6. Nancy Reagan wears a hat 13
7. Some different meanings of the concept of ‘difference’ 37
8. The asylums of Antaeus. Women, war and madness 49
9. When Lindbergh sleeps with Bessie Smith 85
10. Sieving the matriheritage of the sociotext 115
11. The power of division 149
12. Notes on an alternative model — neither/nor 165
13. Feminist historiography and post-structuralist thought 189
14. A response to “The difference within 207