A reader's guide to contemporary feminist literary criticism

Poststructuralism. Deconstruction. Gayatri Spivak. Postmodernism. Alice Jardine. Meaghan Morris. Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- 7. Black feminisms: the African diaspora. Afra-American feminist criticism. Barbara Smith. Audre Lorde. Alice Walker. Barbara Christian. Summary: Afra-American. African feminist criticism. Molara Ogundipe-Leslie. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Lauretta Ngcobo. Caribbean feminist criticism -- 8. Lesbian feminist criticism. Essentialism and construction. Modernism. Bonnie Zimmerman. Queer theory and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Jane Rule. Catharine Stimpson. Mary Daly. Adrienne Rich. Problematising of heterosexuality -- 9. Third World feminist criticism: third wave and fifth gear. Areas. Techniques. Chandra Talpade Mohanty and colonial discourse. Rosario Castellanos. Gloria Anzaldua. Rey Chow -- 10. Feminist futures.