Preface
The Subject and the Signature: Theories of Practice
1. Autogynography: Is the Subject Different?
Domna C. Stanton
2. Ceremonies of the Alphabet: Female Grandmatologies and the Female Authorgraph
Sandra Caruso Mortola Gilbert and Susan Dreyfuss David Gubar
Toward an Archaeology of Pre-Texts: The Case of Japan, England, and Spain
3. The Female Hand in Heian Japan: A First Reading
Richard Bowring
4. Autobiography of a New 'Creatur': Female Spirituality, Selfhood, and Authorship in "The Book of Margery Kempe"
Janel M. Mueller
5. To Restore Honor and Fortune: "The Autobiography of Leonor Lopez de Cordoba"
Amy Katz Kaminsky and Elaine Dorough Johnson
Agencies of the Letter in the Seventeenth Century: Gentileschi and Sevigne
6. Artemisia Gentileschi: The Artist's Autograph in Letters and Paintings
Mary D. Garrard
7. Giving Weight to Words: Madame de Sevigne's Letters to Her Daughter
Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
(Re)claiming the Symbolic: Nineteenth-Century Soldier, Minister, Musician, and Lawyer
8. "My Childhood Years": A Memoir by the Czarist Cavalry Officer, Nadezhda Durova
Mary Fleming Zirin
9. Neither Auction Block nor Pedestal: "The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady"
Frances Smith Foster
10. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Musician in Her Brother's Shadow
Marcia J. Citron
11. Women as Law Clerks: Catharine G. Waugh
Nancy F. Cott
Emblematic Places: Twentieth-Century Texts of the First and Third Worlds
12. The Female Sociograph: The Theater of Virginia Woolf's Letters
Catharine R. Stimpson
13. Of Sparrows and Condors: The Autobiography of Eva Peron
Marysa Navarro
14. "Difficult Journey--Mountainous Journey," The Memoirs of Fadwa Tuqan
Donna Robinson Divine
Contemporary French Inscriptions of the Self
15. Women and Autobiography at Author's Expense
Philippe Lejeune
16. My Memory's Hyperbole
Julia Kristeva
Bibliography
About the Authors