Women and Romance -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Historical Views of Women and Romantic Love -- Chapter One: From The Art of Courtly Love (c. 1185) -- Chapter Two: From The Worth of Women -- Chapter Three: From Emile (1762) -- Chapter Four: From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) -- Chapter Five: From Editorial in the Lily (1852) -- Chapter Six: From The Young Lady's Counsellor -- Chapter Seven: From A Woman's Thoughts about Women (1858) -- Chapter Eight: From The Principles of Social Freedom (1871) -- Chapter Nine: What Women Like in Men (1901) -- Chapter Ten: Marriage and Love (1914) -- Chapter Eleven: From Woman -- Chapter Twelve: From How to Love Like a Real Woman (1969) -- Part II: Letters and Personal Writing -- Chapter Thirteen: Letter to Abelard (12th century) -- Chapter Fourteen: From Letters of Love and Gallantry Written by Ladies (1694) -- Chapter Fifteen: Letters to Gilbert Imlay (1793-95) and William Godwin (1796-97) -- Chapter Sixteen: From A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago (1800) -- Chapter Seventeen: Letters to Ellen Nussey (1840) and Constantine Heger (1845) -- Chapter Eighteen: Letter to Herbert Spencer (1852) -- Chapter Nineteen: Letters to "Master" (c. 1861) and Susan Gilbert Dickinson (1852, 1855) -- Chapter Twenty: Letters to Houghton Gilman (1898) -- Chapter Twenty-one: Letters to Ben Reitman (1909, 1919) -- Living My Life (1934) -- Chapter Twenty-two: Letters to Leonard Woolf (1912) and Vita Sackville-West (1929) -- Chapter Twenty-three: Letters to Jean-Paul Sartre (1938) -- Chapter Twenty-four: A Letter to Larry (1989) -- Part III: Second-Wave Feminist Theory -- Chapter Twenty-five: From The Second Sex (1949) -- Chapter Twenty-six: From The Dialectic of Sex (1970) -- Chapter Twenty-seven: From The Female Eunuch (1971) -- Chapter Twenty-eight: In Favor of True Love over Settling (1975).

Going for What We Really Want (1975) -- Chapter Twenty-nine: Radical Feminism and Love (1974) -- Chapter Thirty: From It's All Dixie Cups to Me (1976) -- Part IV: Contemporary Feminist Theory -- Chapter Thirty-one: From Scratching the Surface -- Chapter Thirty-two: From Close to Home -- Chapter Thirty-three: Really Being in Love Means Wanting to Live in a Different World (1983) -- Chapter Thirty-four: Black Men and the Love and Trouble Tradition (1990) -- Chapter Thirty-five: From Beyond Sex and Romance? -- Chapter Thirty-six: From Search for Tomorrow -- Part V: Explaining Romance -- Chapter Thirty-seven: The Feminization of Love (1986) -- Chapter Thirty-eight: From Surpassing the Love of Men (1981) -- Chapter Thirty-nine: From The Overvaluation of Love -- Chapter Forty: From The Alienation of Desire -- Chapter Forty-one: From What Do Women and Men Want from Love and Sex? (1983) -- Chapter Forty-two: Male-Female Relations -- Chapter Forty-three: Love and Romance as Objects of Feminist Knowledge (1993) -- Part VI: Literary Criticism -- Chapter Forty-four: From Persuasion and the Promises of Love (1983) -- Chapter Forty-five: From Love and Sex in the Afro-American Novel (1989) -- Chapter Forty-six: Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire -- Chapter Forty-seven: The End of the Novel of Love (1997) -- Part VII: The Popular Romance -- Chapter Forty-eight: From Silly Novels by Lady Novelists (1856) -- Chapter Forty-nine: Mass Market Romance -- Chapter Fifty: Women Read the Romance -- Chapter Fifty-one: From Feminism without Women -- Chapter Fifty-two: The Wellsprings of Romance (1989) -- Let Me Tell You about My Readers (1992) -- Chapter Fifty-three: Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves (1996) -- Chapter Fifty-four: From Constructing Girlhood -- Chapter Fifty-five: Reason within Passion -- Chapter Fifty-six: From What Does a Kiss Mean?.

Chapter Fifty-seven: Endless Love Will Keep Us Together -- Chapter Fifty-eight: Seduction and Betrayal: The Crying Game Meets The Bodyguard (1994) -- Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale (1996) -- Chapter Fifty-nine: Hooked on a Feeling (1990) -- Part VIII The Experience of Love -- Chapter Sixty: Homophobia and Romantic Love (1981) -- Chapter Sixty-one: The Tender Trap (1988) -- Chapter Sixty-two: Modern Romance -- Chapter Sixty-three: Endless Love (1997) -- Chapter Sixty-four: From The Last Gift of Time -- Chapter Sixty-five: From Beyond Embarrassment -- Index -- About the Editor.