| The Naked Text |
| Acknowledgments |
| Abbreviations |
| Prolocutory |
 | 1— Reading and Writing |
| • | From Reader To Writer |
| • | The Two Prologues |
| • | Reading, Knowing, And Making |
| • | Making a Legend |
| 2— Women, Nature, and Language |
| • | Nature, Language, Women |
| • | Women, Nature, Language |
| • | Gender-Marked Writing |
| • | Eros And Alceste |
| 3— The Naked Text |
| • | Nakedness |
| • | Clothing The Text: Thisbe |
| • | The Logic of Obscenity |
| 4— Different and Same |
| • | Difference: The Balade |
| • | Geographies Of Desire: Orientalism In The Legend |
| • | Cleopatra |
| • | Thisbe |
| • | Dido And Aeneas |
| • | Hypsipyle, Medea, And Jason |
| • | Philomela |
| 5— A Gallery of Women |
| • | Cleopatra |
| • | Thisbe |
| • | Dido |
| • | Hypsipyle And Medea |
| • | Lucrece |
| • | Ariadne |
| • | Philomela |
| • | Phyllis |
| • | Hypermnestra |
| Semi-Polemical Conclusion |
| Works Cited |
| Index |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
