Introduction: the woman in the street -- 1. Walking, women and writing: Virginia Woolf as flaneuse -- 2. The impasse: Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight -- 3. p/s: the return of m/f -- 4. 'The problem with no name': rereading Friedan's The Feminine Mystique -- 5. Soft sell: marketing rhetoric in feminist criticism -- 6. Flight reservations: the Anglo-American/French divide in feminist criticism -- 7. The judgement of Paris (and the choice of Kristeva): French theory and feminism this side of the Channel -- 8. Still crazy after all these years: travels in feminism and psychoanalysis -- 9. One foot in the grave: Freud on Jensen's Gradiva