Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. Introduction 15
5. Part I. Feminists On Freud
6. 1. The Father's Seduction 33
7. 2. Enforcing Oedipus: Freud And Dora 51
8. 3. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle: Recent Gender Theories And Their Implications 72
9. 4. Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, And Feminism: The Case Of Anna O. 89
10. Part II. Rereading Patriarchal Texts
11. 5. "This Is And Is Not Cressid ": The Characterization Of Cressida 119
12. 6. Difference And Silence: John Milton And The Question Of Gender 142
13. 7. The Mother Tongue: Christabel And The Language Of Love 169
14. 8. Mrs. Hawthorne's Headache: Reading The Scarlet Letter 194
15. 9. Eugénie Grandet: Mirrors and MelanchoHa 217
16. PART III. WOMEN REWRITING WOMAN
17. 10. A Map for Rereading; or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts 241
18. 11. Class, Gender, and Family System: The Case of George Sand 260
19. 12. Women and Men in Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook: Divided Selve 280
20. 13. Writing as Difference in Violette Leduc's Autobiography, La Bâtarde 306
21. 14. "Women Together " in Virginia Woolfs Night and Day 318
22. 15. The Gothic Mirror 334
23. 16. Writing and Motherhood 352
24. Contributors 378
25. Index 383