Section 1 Consumption, production and reproduction: candid advice to the fair sex - or, the politics of maternity in late 18th century Britain, Amanda Gilroy; Mary Wolstonecraft's imperious sympathies - population, maternity and romantic individualism, Angela Keane; productive, reproductive, and consuming bodies in Victorian aesthetic models, Regenia Gagnier; embodying the new woman - Dorothy Richardson and the London cafe, Scott McCracken. Section 2 Matters of difference - misrecognition and dissymetries: bodily dissymetries and masculine anxiety - Herculine has the last laugh, Ursula Tidd; embodying strangers, Sara Ahmend; material difference and the supplementary body in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Charmaine Eddy; the body and its discontents, Elisabeth Bronfen. Section 3 Memory and mourning - narratives of violation: 18th century prostitutes - histories and methodologies, Vivien Jones; the story of Draupadi's disrobing - meaning for our times, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; boundaries of violence - female migratory subjects, political agency, and postcoloniality, You-me Park; substantiating discourses of emergence - corporeality, spectrality and postmodern historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Susan Spearey. Section 4 Re-viewing bodies in fiction: little girls and large women - representations of the female body in Elizabeth Bowen's later fiction, Clare Hanson; textural braille - visionary (re)readings of H.D., Rachel Connor; Daphne du Maurier and gothic signatures - Rebecca as vamp(ire), Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik. Section 5 Spirits, mystics and transcendents: memory, imagination and the (m)other - an Irigarayan reading of Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Sue Chaplin; the lesbian Christ - body politics in Helene Cixous's Le Livre de Promethea, Val Gough; imaginal bodies and feminine spirits - performing gender in Jungian theory and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, Susan Rowland.