Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310) and index.

The feminism of Renaissance love poetry / Robert C. Evans -- Imag(in)ing the female reader: The Lady's Magazine in the new republic / Karen E. Rowe -- Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century and American literary history / Brian Yothers -- Linda Loman and cognitive psychology in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman / Robert C. Evans -- Rebel daughters: Margaret Walker and Muriel Rukeyser / Julia Lisella -- The body of Sextus in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece / Fran Teague and Nathan P. Gilmour -- Killing Desdemona: possible feminist responses to the death scene in Shakespeare's Othello / Robert C. Evans -- Body and text in early epistolary fiction, culminating in Richardson's Pamela / Joyce Kelley -- "Make savings, not children": Malthus and population control in Emma and Mansfield Park / Sarah Fredericks -- Christina Rossetti as a "feminist" poet / Christie Deuter -- Feminism in Kate Chopin's "flash fiction" / Caitlin Celka -- Genevieve Taggard's socialist feminist interventions in lyric making / Julia Lisella -- Women and "feminism" in Zora Neale Thurston's "The Gilded Six Bits" / Christina M. Garner -- A war story of one's own : Katherine Anne Porter's re-envisioning of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms / Michael E. Kaufmann -- Telling it like it was: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook as a protofeminist text / Nicolas Tredell -- Failed stories of rewriting and revision in Samdra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories / Anne McGee -- The thirtysometing wives' tale: Zadie Smith's NW as a post-feminist text / Nicolas Tredell.