Reprint of 1980 ed.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword: On history, illiteracy, passivity, violence, and women's culture -- Tensions of Anne Bradstreet (1966) -- When we dead awaken: Writing as re-vision (1971) -- Teaching language in open admissions (1972) -- Antifeminist Woman (1972) -- Woman observing, preserving, conspiring, surviving: Poems of Eleanor Ross Taylor (1972) -- Jane Eyre: Temptations of a motherless woman (1973) -- Caryatid: Two columns (1973) -- I: Vietnam and sexual violence -- II: Natalya Gorbanevskaya -- Anne Sexton: 1928-1974 (1974) -- Toward a woman-centered university (1973-74) -- Vesuvius at home: Power of Emily Dickinson (1975) -- Women and honor: Some notes on lying (1975) -- Motherhood in Bondage (1976) -- "It is the lesbian in us..." (1976) -- Conditions for work: Common world of women (1976) -- Husband-right and father-right (1977) -- Meaning of our love for women is what we have constantly to expand (1977) -- Claiming an education (1977) -- Taking women students seriously (1978) -- Power danger: Works of a common woman (1977) -- Motherhood: Contemporary emergency quantum leap (1978) -- Disloyal to civilization: Feminism, racism, gynephobia (1978)