Women and literary history, Dale Spender; the true story of how I became my own person, Rosalind Coward; the difference of view, Mary Jacobus; representing women - re-presenting the past, Gillian Beer; sexual linguistics - gender, language, sexuality, Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar; sorties, Helene Cixous; feminist, female, feminine, Toril Moi; women and madness - the critical phallacy, Shoshana Felman; promises, promises - the fictional philosophy In Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", Jane Moore; three women's texts and a critique of imperialism, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; women's time, Julia Kristeva.