CONTENTS
List of plates = ⅶ
List of contributors = ⅸ
Acknowledgments = xi
1 Introduction / Isobel Armstrong = 1
Part Ⅰ Knowledges = 9
2 Feminist aesthetics and the new realism / Laura Marcus = 11
3 Walking, women and writing Virginia Woolf as fl$$\hat a$$neuse / Rachel Bowlby = 26
4 Happy families? Feminist reproduction and matrilineal thought / Linda R. Williams = 48
5 An other space : a future for feminism? / Jane Moore = 65
Part Ⅱ Subjectivities
6 Releasing possibility into form : cultural choice and the woman writer / Carol Watts = 83
7 Fakes and femininity : Vita Sackville-West and her mother / Suzanne Raitt = 103
8 The dangers of Angela Carter / Elaine Joran = 119
Part Ⅲ Languages
9. Love, moruning and metaphor : terms of identity / Kadiatu Kanneh = 135
10. Why the Lady's eyes are nothing like th sun / Lorna Hutson = 154
11 Unsilent instruments and the devil's cushions : authority in seven-teenth-century women's prophetic discourse / Sue Wiseman = 176
Part Ⅳ Representations
12 Getting down to basics : art, obscenity and the female nude / Lynda Nead = 199
13 Do or die : problems of agency and gender in th aesthetics of murder / Josephine McDonagh = 222
14 The politics of focus : feminism and photography theory / Lindsay Smith = 238
15 The hand of the huntress : repetition and Malory's Morte Darthur / Catherine LaFarge = 263
Part Ⅴ Others
16 New hystericism : Aphra Behn's Oroonoko : the body, the text and the feminist critic / Ros Ballaster = 283
17 The great distinction : figures of the exotic in the work of William Hodges / Harriet Guest = 296
18 'Because men made the laws' : the fallen woman and the woman poet / Angela Leighton = 342
Index = 361
