From the Editor, 7-12 [full preface]
Jennifer L. Airey

Articles

Breastfeeding and Scientific Motherhood: The Case of Marie-Jeanne Roland, 13-38 [abstract]
Annie K. Smart

“Gripping, Grewsome, Great”: Re-Encountering Ellen La Motte’s The Backwash of War through the Lens of Obscenity, 39-60 [abstract]
Layne Parish Craig

“I ain’t you”: Fat and the Female Body in Flannery O’Connor, 61-83 [abstract]
Jennifer Renee Blevins

A “Chosen” P[o]et among [Hu]mans: Denise Levertov’s Pig Dreams Read as a Matrifocal Allegory, 85-104 [abstract]
José Rodríguez Herrera

Out of Order: Women’s Time in Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower, 105-122 [abstract]
Merrill Turner

Jackie Kay’s Trumpet: Transnational and Transracial Adoption, Transgender Identity, and Fictions of Transformation, 123-150 [abstract]
Margaret Homans

Notes

The Lim Transcriptions of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Letters to Lydia Rickards: A Critique, 151-154
William McCarthy

Reviews

Structure and Features of Anna Komnene’s “Alexiad”: Emergence of a Personal History, by Larisa Orlov Vilimonović, 155-157
Penelope Buckley

“The Book of the City of Ladies” and Other Writings by Christine de Pizan, edited and introduction by Rebecca Kingston and Sophie Bourgault, translated from Middle French by Ineke Hardy, 158-160
Geri L. Smith

Wollstonecraft’s Ghost: The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period, by Andrew McInnes. The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives: Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1911, by Deborah Weiss, 161-164
Anne Chandler

Tasteful Domesticity: Women’s Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940, by Sarah Walden, 165-166
Erin Branch

Reconceiving Nature: Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women’s Poetry, by Patricia Murphy, 167-169
Marion Shaw

Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture, by Chris Mourant, 169-172
Carey Snyder

Tillie Olson and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature, by Anthony Dawahare, 173-175
Jennifer Forsberg

Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality, by Mary Paniccia Carden, 175-178
Isabel Castelao-Gómez

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed, by Lisa Duggan, 179-181
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler

Politics and Affect in Black Women’s Fiction, by Kathy Glass, 181-183
Janaka Lewis

Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977-2011: She Bites Back, by Kendra R. Parker, 184-186
Shari Evans

Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, by Cheryl Suzack, 186-187
Maggie Ann Bowers