From the Editor, 5-10
Holly Laird

Articles

Placing Their Feminism in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Emma Bell Miles, Grace MacGowan Cooke, and the Roots of Ecological Feminism, 11-31 [abstract]
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

Miss Robins and Mrs. Brown, 33-55 [abstract]
Sue Thomas

Negotiating Victorian Feminism: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Short Fiction, 57-75 [abstract]
Manuela Mourão

Moving Dangerously: Mobility and the Modern Woman, 77-92 [abstract]
Wendy Parkins

“Burn what they should not see”: The Private Journal as Public Text in A. S. Byatt’s Possession, 93-106 [abstract]
Adrienne Shiffman

Oral Sex: Vampiric Transgression and the Writing of Angela Carter, 107-121 [abstract]
Sarah Sceats

Archives

“bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love”: The Whitman-Cather Connection in O Pioneers!, 123-136
Maire Mullins

Reviews

Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing, 1930-1990, by Patricia Yaeger, 137-139
Tammy Evans

The Life of Marie d’Agoult, Alias Daniel Stern, by Phyllis Stock-Morton, 140-141
Kathryn J. Crecelius

Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education edited by Wayne K. Chapman and Janet M. Manson, 141-146
Eileen Barrett

Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women’s Life-Writing, by Suzette Henke, 146-147
Sara Blair

The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable, edited by Marc C. Conner, 148-150
Althea Tait

From the Editor, 183-185
Holly Laird

Articles

Forum: Problems of Beauty in Feminist Studies

Preface, 187-189
Holly Laird

Wounded Beauty: An Exploratory Essay on Race, Feminism, and the Aesthetic Question, 191-217 [abstract]
Anne Anlin Cheng

Feminists in Brideland, 219-230 [abstract]
Lisa Walker

“Say That I Had a Lovely Face”: The Grimms’ “Rapunzel,” Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott,” and Atwood’s Lady Oracle, 231-254 [abstract]
Shuli Barzilai

Sho-Lo Showdown: The Do’s and Don’ts of Lesbian Chic, 255-268 [abstract]
Jodi R. Schorb and Tania N. Hammidi

How Do We Keep Desire from Passing with Beauty?, 269-284 [abstract]
Pamela L. Caughie

Mirrors, Marriage, and Nostalgia: Mother-Daughter Relations in Writings by Isabelle de Charrière and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 285-313 [abstract]
Katharine Ann Jensen

Mothering Desire: The Romance Plot in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Susan Fromberg Schaeffer’s The Madness of a Seduced Woman, 315-336 [abstract]
Sarah R. Morrison

Reviews

Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic, by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, 337-338
Estella Lauter

Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876, by Margaret Homans, 338-342
Susan T. Barstow

Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time, by Mary Waldron, 342-345
Allen Bauman

The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts, edited by Mary Arseneau, Anthony H. Harrison, and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 345-347
Toni Van Der Moere

Writing Double: Women’s Literary Partnerships, by Bette London, 347-349
Ann Ardis

Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, edited by Pamela L. Caughie, 349-350
Christine Froula

Virginia Woolf and the Great War, by Karen L. Levenback, 350-353
Patricia M. Feito

Dorothy Richardson’s Art of Memory: Space, Identity, Text, by Elisabeth Bronfen, 353-355
Jean Radford