Sexual love in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates -- Erica Jong : flying or grounded? -- Lois Gould : the musical chairs of power -- Gail Godwin : order and accommodation -- Joan Didion : the hurting woman -- Winging upward : Black women : Sarah E. Wright, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker -- Piecemeal liberation : Marge Piercy, Sara Davidson, Marilyn French, Grace Paley.