Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-144) and index.
Contents
Negotiated homelands : the states of feminist reading -- Negotiating our text : the search for accommodations in Edith Wharton's The house of mirth -- Our confounded identities : negotiating audience in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The character of her writing : Eudora Welty's The optimist's daughter and the stories of feminist criticism -- Sifting through bags and bones : practical negotiations in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon -- Negotiated motherhood : contradictory leanings in Marge Piercy's Woman on the edge of time -- Riparian corridors and other progressive middles : new directions for feminist criticism?