1. Introduction / Jennifer Birkett and Elizabeth Harvey -- 2. Private fantasy and public intervention: girls' reading in Weimar Germany / Elizabeth Harvey -- 3. Doubly determined: the ambition of Storm Jameson / Jennifer Birkett -- 4. The negative of a person: media, image and authenticity in Sylvia Plath's "The bell jar / Stan Smith -- 5. A question of inheritance: Canadian women's short stories / Coral Ann Howells.
6. Whistling like a woman: the novels of Alice Walker / Jennifer Birkett -- 7. Beyond paper heroines: Maxie Wander's "Guten Morgen, de Schone" and its reception in the GDR / Patricia Harbord -- 8. Sexism in French: a case study / Robin Adamson -- 9. The castration of Cassandra / Helga Geyer-Ryan.