Sexual politics and critical judgment -- Signs of undecidability: reconsidering the stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Orality and textuality in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- A world of women: Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping -- Crossing the double-cross: the concept of "difference" and feminist literary criticism -- Deconstructing the sexual politic: Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen -- Defiance: the body (of) writing/the writing (of) body -- In/conclusion: the problem of theory and the practice of feminist literary criticism.