Acknowledgements

Notes on the contributors

Introduction

part one Consumption, production and reproduction

'Candid advice to the fair sex': or, the politics of maternity in late eighteenth-century Britain

Amanda Gilroy

Mary Wollstonecraft'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, work and the London cafe

Scott McCracken

part two Matters of difference: misrecognition and dissymmetries

Bodily dissymmetries and masculine anxiety: Herculine has the last laugh

Ursula Tidd

Embodying strangers

Sara Ahmed

Material difference and the supplementary body in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Charmaine Eddy

The body and its discontents

Elisabeth Bronfen

part three Memory and mourning: narratives of violation

Eighteenth-century prostitution: feminist debates and the writing of histories

Vivien Jones

The story of Draupadi's disrobing: meanings 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

part four Re-viewing bodies in fiction

Little girls and large women: representations of the female body in Elizabeth Bowen's later fiction

Clare Hanson

Textu(r)al braille: visionary (re)readings of H.D.

Rachel Connor

Daphne du Maurier and Gothic signatures: Rebecca as vamp(ire)

Avril Horner

Sue Zlosnik

part five 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 Atwood's Alias Grace

Susan Rowland

Index