Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a feminist at work / Jean E. Howard
  • Household "writing" : or the joys of carving / Wendy Wall
  • Preparing food, producing gender on early modern stages / Peter Parolin
  • Sugar, gender, and the circum-Atlantic performance of class / Kim F. Hall
  • Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Othello and Desdemona : race and emerging heterosexuality / Rebecca Ann Bach
  • Home alone : the place of women's homoerotic desire in Shakespeare's As you like it / Will Fisher
  • The woman writer as public paradox : Elizabeth Carter and the bluestocking circle / Lisa A. Freeman
  • Wroth's cabinets / Julie Crawford
  • Gender and the pleasures of revenge / Gwynne Kennedy
  • Multiplying Cordelia : teaching feminist editorial practice / Sarah Werner
  • Un-marking, re-marking and difference / Barbara Hodgdon.