Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Memory and Vision: Roads to and from Eressos -- I. Becoming a Writer -- An Imaginative Collectivity of Writers and Readers -- Writing with Class -- Competition among Feminist Writers -- The Feminist Reviewer -- Going to the Fair -- The Last Peace March -- The Rape of Cinderella -- The Suburban Housewife as Feminist Organizer -- Indian Women and the Indian Act -- Sisterhood Is Variable -- Letter from Australia -- Reading along the Dyke -- Writing Fiction across Generations -- II. Reading Lives -- The Matriarch of Manawaka -- Spinning Friends: May Sarton's Literary Spinsters -- Atwood in Metamorphosis: An Authentic Canadian Fairy Tale -- Living the Free-lance Life: A Portrait of Abby Hoffman -- An Interview with Adrienne Rich and Mary Daly -- Common Sense Waged and Earned: The Work of Grace Paley -- Quiet Outlaws -- Novelist Shen Rong and the Art of Literary Survival in China -- Marge Piercy and the Candor of Our Fictions -- The Brilliant Career of Thea Astley -- The Political Development of a White South African -- III. Reviews -- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Hisaye Yamamoto -- The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch -- The Lover of Horses by Tess Gallagher, Raven's Wing by Joyce Carol Oates, and And Venus Is Blue by Mary Hood -- Common Ground edited by Marilyn Berge, Linda Field, Cynthia Flood, Penny Goldsmith, and Lark -- Stepping Out: Short Stories on Friendship between Women edited by Ann Oosthuizen -- In Custody by Anita Desai -- Rape: The Power of Consciousness by Susan Griffin -- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde -- Going Too Far by Robin Morgan -- Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers edited by Gladys Yang.

Ding Ling's Fiction by Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker, Selected Stories of Xiao Hong translated by Howard Goldblatt, and Born of the Same Roots: Stories of Modern Chinese Women edited by Vivian Ling Hsu -- At Paradise Gate by Jane Smiley and Time Together by Marian Seldes -- The Stories of Muriel Spark -- Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams -- Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien -- Leader of the Band, The Heart of the Country, and Polaris and Other Stories by Fay Weldon -- Works Consulted -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.