Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Why an Irony Paradigm for Feminist Historiography, and Why Now? -- 1. ON WOMEN AND AGENCY: Ironizing Together -- 2. ON LANGUAGE AND HISTORY: Eliding Dichotomies -- 3. ON LOCATION AND MEMORY: Challenging Ethos -- 4. FREEING THE ARCHON -- 5. TOWARD AN IRONY PARADIGM -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- Author Biography -- Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms -- Other Books in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series -- Back Cover.