| The Naked Text |
| Acknowledgments |
| Abbreviations |
| Prolocutory |
 | 1— Reading and Writing |
| 2— Women, Nature, and Language |
| 3— The Naked Text |
| 4— Different and Same |
 | 5— A Gallery of Women |
| • | Cleopatra |
| • | Thisbe |
| • | Dido |
| • | Hypsipyle And Medea |
| • | Lucrece |
| • | Ariadne |
| • | Philomela |
| • | Phyllis |
| • | Hypermnestra |
| Semi-Polemical Conclusion |
| Works Cited |
| Index |