Changing Subjects: The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism Book

	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Looking at history	4
Pt. I	Decades
2	Decades	31
3	History/My history	48
4	Imaginary gardens with real frogs in them: feminist euphoria and the Franco-American divide, 1976-88	64
5	Radical optimism, maternal materialism and teaching literature	83
Pt. II	Reading/writing against the grain
6	Reader, I married me: a polygynous memoir	97
7	In academia, and out: the experience of a lesbian feminist literary critic	112
8	"Except thou ravish me": penetrations into the life of the (feminine) mind	121
9	The long goodbye: against the personal testimony or, an infant grifter grows up	129
10	Feminism, the roaring girls and me	147
Pt. III	Legacies
11	Mother	157
12	Getting gendered	168
13	Loss and recovery: homes away from home	180
14	Being the subject and the object: reading African-American women's novels	195
15	Generational differences: reliving mother-daughter conflicts	201
Pt. IV	Connections and contradictions
16	Stormy weather: a memoir of the second wave	211
17	On having a personal voice	226
18	Asians in Anglo-American feminism: reciprocity and resistance	240
19	Growing up theoretical: across the divide	253
	Afterword	267
	Index	273