Introduction / Dale M. Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry -- 1. The Dilemmas of a Feminine Dialogic / Diane Price Herndl -- 2. Voices from the Margin: Bag Ladies and Others / Suzanne Kehde -- 3. Prolegomenon for an Ecofeminist Dialogics / Patrick D. Murphy -- 4. Irigarayan Dialogism: Play and Powerplay / Gail M. Schwab -- 5. Critical Imperialism and Renaissance Drama: The Case of The Roaring Girl / Deborah Jacobs -- 6. Style and Power / Josephine Donovan -- 7. Radical Writing / Peter Hitchcock -- 8. A Quote of Many Colors: Women and Masquerade in Donald Barthelme's Postmodern Parody Novels / Jaye Berman -- 9. "Witness [to] the Suffering of Women": Poverty and Sexual Transgression in Meridel Le Sueur's Women on the Breadlines / Susan Sipple -- 10. The Central Nervous System of America: The Writer As/In the Crowd of Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland / Brenda O. Daly -- 11. Language and Gender In Transit: Feminist Extensions of Bakhtin / Sheryl Stevenson
12. Subject, Voice, and Women in Some Contemporary Black American Women's Writing / Mary O'Connor -- 13. Problems of Gordimer's Poetics: Dialogue in Burger's Daughter / Louise Yelin -- Afterword / Patricia Yaeger