Foreword Introduction Essays Sexuality as Rebellion in George Orwell's 1984 by Paul Bail Woman's Roles and Influence in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Melissa Pennell The War Against the Feminine: Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front by Mary Warner "Doctor She": Helena and Sisterhood in Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well by Terry Reilly Mother, Wife, Fallen Woman: Marital Choice in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina by Lucy Melbourne Righteous Activist or Confrontational Madwoman: Sophocles' Antigone by Karen Bovard Female Resistance to Gender Conformity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening by Dana Kinnison Mothers and Children in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees by Mary Jean DeMarr Faulkner's Male Myth: The Bear by Kim Martin Long More Than Skin Deep: Robin McKinley's Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Ellen R. Sackelman Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: Trapped by the Feminist Mystique by Laurie Leach Toni Morrison's Beloved: Maternal Possibilities, Sisterly Bonding, by Monika Elbert Richard Wright's Black Boy and Black Women by Kenneth Florey Culture, Tradition, Family: Gender Roles in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima by Montye P. Fuse Girls into Women: Culture, Nature, and Self-Loathing in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye by Barbara Frey Waxman Founding Women's History: Christine de Pizan Writes The Book of the City of Ladies by Ellen S. Silber A Dystopic Vision of Gender in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World by Cristie L. March An Immigrant Girl's Quest for the American Dream in Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers by Norah C. Chase As My Mother Says: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwige Danticat by Eileen Burchell Non-Conformists and Traditionalists: Buchi Emecheta's The Bride Price by Osayimwense Osa The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Jack London's The Call of the Wild by Michelle Napierski-Prancl Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Gender in the Middle Ages by Michael G. Cornelius Sex, Violence, and Peter Pan: J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye by PaulBail Paths to Liberation in Alice Walker's The Color Purple by Ernece B. Kelly The Women in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment by Sydney Schultze Witchhunting, Thwarted Desire, and Girl Power: Authur Miller's The Crucible by Karen Bovard "A Nice Girl Ought to Know!": Henry James's Daisy Miller by Laurie F. Leach Redefining Female Absense in Death of a Salesman by Dana Kinnison Black and White Womanhood in Sherely Anne Williams' Dessa Rose: Mammies, Ladies, and Rebels by Beverly Guy-Sheftall Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl: Writing a Self--The Female Adolescent Voice by Hedda Rosner Kopf The Slammed Door that Still Reverberates: Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House by Ann R. Shapiro Frozen Lives: Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome by Melissa McFarland Pennell Catherine Barkley: Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms by Suzanne del Gizzo The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress's Florence by Nassim W. Balestrini Daring Creation: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Lucy Morrison Shattered Rainbows in Translucent Glass: Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie by Nassim W. Balestrini What It Means to Be a Lady: Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind by Jane Marcellus Patriarchy and Property: Women in Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth by Eleanor Pam o Expectations at All: Women in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations by James R. Simmons Jr. Beautiful Fools and Hulking Brutes: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by Linda C. Pelzer Reading Between the Lines: Connecting with Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet by Elizabeth Klett Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Magali Cornier Michael When Women Shape the World: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland by Jerilyn Fisher Girls and Women in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street
