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.