The portrayal of women by Chaucer and his age / Ann S. Haskell --

The changing image of woman in Renaissance society and literature / Catherine M. Dunn --

Praising virtuous ladies: the literary image and historical reality of women in seventeenth-century England / David J. Latt --

The portrayal of women in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature / John J. Richetti --

Gender and genre: women in British romantic literature / Irene Tayler and Gina Luria --

Angels and other women in Victorian literature / Marlene Springer --

Marriage perceived: English literature 1873-1941 / Carolyn G. Heilbrun --

Images of women in early American literature / Ann Stanford --

Portrayal of women in American literature, 1790-1870 / Nina Baym --

They shall have faces, minds, and (one day) flesh: women in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American literature / Martha Banta --

"Combat in the erogenous zone": women in the American novel between the two world wars / James W. Tuttleton --

Second-class citizenship: the status of women in contemporary American fiction / Martha Masinton and Charles G. Masinton --

"Free in fact and at last": the image of the Black woman in Black American literature / Elizabeth Schultz.