Cabinets of the curious: readers in the nineteenth century American archive and the search for a story-like life / Women's history, women's empowerment: Lydia Maria Child's Ladies Family Library Series / Cinderella revisited: women writers and the stepfamily / The hidden harlot: alternative ideals of womanhood in nineteenth century women's fiction / Victorian women poets and the art of collaboration / "That idyl of the June, that girls' gospel" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Browning's Aurora Leigh / Cuban femininity and national unity in Louisa May Alcott's moods and Elizabeth Stoddard's "Eros and Anteros" / Bad girls of the VAD: World War I fallen women in the forbidden zone / Modernism, maternity, and the radical women poet / Riders of the new wave: the feminist science fiction of Le Guin,Russ, and Tiptree / Embodying the muse, opening pandora's box: Post-Modern counter narratives of female creativity and community / Sacred frontiers: looking for fissures to construct an alternate feminist subjectivity in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood / Who I be I grow up / here? : literary recuperations of Harlem's streets / Womb fiction: late twentieth century challenges to the woman as womb paradigm