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| Introduction |
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| part one Consumption, production and reproduction |
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'Candid advice to the fair sex': or, the politics of maternity in late eighteenth-century Britain |
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Mary Wollstonecraft's imperious sympathies: population, maternity and Romantic individualism |
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Productive, reproductive and consuming bodies in Victorian aesthetic models |
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Embodying the New Woman: Dorothy Richardson, work and the London cafe |
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| part two Matters of difference: misrecognition and dissymmetries |
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Bodily dissymmetries and masculine anxiety: Herculine has the last laugh |
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Material difference and the supplementary body in Alice Walker's The Color Purple |
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The body and its discontents |
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| part three Memory and mourning: narratives of violation |
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Eighteenth-century prostitution: feminist debates and the writing of histories |
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The story of Draupadi's disrobing: meanings for our times |
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Boundaries of violence: female migratory subjects, political agency and postcoloniality |
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Substantiating discourses of emergence: corporeality, spectrality and postmodern historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved |
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| part four Re-viewing bodies in fiction |
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Little girls and large women: representations of the female body in Elizabeth Bowen's later fiction |
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Textu(r)al braille: visionary (re)readings of H.D. |
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Daphne du Maurier and Gothic signatures: Rebecca as vamp(ire) |
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| part five Spirits, mystics and transcendents |
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Memory, imagination and the (m)other: an Irigarayan reading of Charlotte Bronte's Villette |
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The lesbian Christ: body politics in Helene Cixous's Le Livre de Promethea |
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Imaginal bodies and feminine spirits: performing gender in Jungian theory and Atwood's Alias Grace |
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