Table of 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?