Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abolition -- Allende, Isabel -- Allison, Dorothy -- Amazon -- Androgyny -- Angelou, Maya -- Arnow, Harriette -- Atwood, Margaret -- Austen, Jane -- Austin, Mary -- Autobiography -- Barnes, Djuna -- Behn, Aphra -- Blixen, Karen -- Brontë, Charlotte -- Brontë, Emily -- Brown, Rita Mae -- Burdekin, Katharine -- Castillo, Ana -- Chopin, Kate -- Cisneros, Sandra -- Cofer, Judith Ortiz -- Community -- Davis, Rebecca Harding -- de Pizan, Christine -- Dinesen, Isak -- Domesticity -- Erdrich, Louise -- Fauset, Jessie Redmon -- Fern, Fanny -- Foster, Hannah Webster -- Friendship -- Gaskell, Elizabeth -- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins -- Gothic -- Hall, Radclyffe -- hooks, bell -- Hulme, Keri -- Hurston, Zola Neale -- Hysteria -- Iron, Ralph -- Jacobs, Harriet Ann -- Jones, Gayl -- Kelley, Edith Summers -- Kingston, axine Hong -- Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin -- Lispector, Clarice -- Lorde, Audre -- Markham, Beryl -- Marriage -- Marshall, Paule -- McCullers, Carson -- Morrison, Toni -- Motherhood -- Mukherjee, Bharati -- Naylor, Gloria -- New woman -- Nightingale, Florence -- Novel -- Olsen, Tillie -- Petry, Ann -- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart -- Piercy, Marge -- Pseudonyms -- Regionalism -- Rich, Adrienne -- Rowson, Susanna -- Schreiner, Olive -- Sedgwick, Catharine Marie -- Sentimentalism -- Sexuality -- Shange, Ntozake -- Shelley, Mary -- Silence and voice -- Spirituality -- Stefan, Verena -- Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- Suffrage -- Tan, Amy -- True woman -- Walker, Alice -- Walker, Margaret -- Wharton, Edith -- Winterson, Jeanette -- Wittig, Monique -- Wolf, Christa -- Wollstonecraft, Mary -- Woman question, the -- Woolf, Virginia -- Yamamoto, Hisaye -- Yezierska, Anzia.