Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-295) and index.
Contents
Women writing in the twentieth century: the novel and social change -- Mad housewives and closed circles: mad housewife fiction of the sixties and seventies -- "Old stories": Erica Jong's Fear of flying and Gail Godwin's The Odd woman -- Doris Lessing's The Golden notebook: naming in a different way -- Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall: new system, new morality -- Margaret Laurence's The Diviners: changing the past --Margaret Atwood's Lady oracle: going off gothics -- Whatever happened to feminist fiction?
