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1. Introduction Robin Truth Goodman; 2. 'Original spirit': literary translations and transnational literature in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft Laura Kirley; 3. Jane Eyre, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and the varieties of nineteenth-century feminism Margaret Homans; 4. Progressive portraits: literature in feminisms of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner Judith A. Allen; 5. Feminist poetics: first-wave feminism, theory, and modernist women poets Linda Kinnahan; 6. Woolf and women's work: literary invention in an obscure hat factory Robin Truth Goodman; 7. Walking in a man's world: myth, literature, and the interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex Ashley King Scheu; 8. Decapitation impossible: the hundred heads of Julia Kristeva Maria Margaroni; 9. Shattering the gender walls: Monique Wittig's contribution to literature Dominique Bourque; 10. Hélène Cixous: writing for her life Peggy Kamuf; 11. Subversive creatures from behind the Iron Curtain: Irmtraud Morgner's The Life and Adventures of Trobodora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura Sonja E. Klocke; 12. Christa Wolf: literature as an aesthetics of resistance Anna K. Kuhn; 13. Naked came the female extraterrestrial stranger: applying Linda M. Scott's Fresh Lipstick to Sue Lange's The Textile Planet Marleen S. Barr; 14. Captive maternal love: Octavia Butler and science fiction family values Joy James; 15. More than theatre: Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman and the feminist phenomenology of excess Lakey; 16. Nawal el Saadawi: writer and revolutionary Miriam Cooke; 17. 'The woman who said 'no'': colonialism, Islam, and feminist resistance in the works of Assia Djebar Jane Hiddleston.