Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Contemporary Scottish Women Poets and Playwrights
6. Chapter One Chapter Two Scottish Women's Poetry 1972-1999: 11
7. Chapter Two. Kathleen Jamie's Semiotic of Scotlands 27
8. Chapter Three. Liz Lochhead's Poetry and Drama: Forging Ironies 41
9. Chapter Four. Sharman Macdonald: The Generation of Identity 53
10. Chapter Five. Sue Glover, Rona Munro, Lara Jane Bunting: Echoes and Open Spaces 65
11. Chapter Six. Jackie Kay's Poetry and Prose: Constructing Identity 79
12. Part Two. Contemporary Scottish Women's Prose Fiction
13. Chapter Seven. Muriel Spark and Candia McWilliam: Continuities 95
14. Chapter Eight. Agnes Owens's Fiction: Untold Stories 111
15. Chapter Nine. Emma Tennant, Elspeth Barker, Alice Thompson: Gothic Revisited 117
16. Chapter Ten. Janice Galloway's Novels: Fraudulent Mooching 131
17. Chapter Eleven. A. L. Kennedy's Longer Fiction: Articulate Grace 144
18. Chapter Twelve. Scottish Women's Short Stories: 'Repositories of Life Swiftly Apprehended 156
19. Selective Bibliography of Writing by Other Contemporary Scottish Women Writers 170
20. Contributors 180
21. Index 182