Part I: Language, Literature, Semiotics 1. The discourse of passion 2. Woman-graphy 3. The erotic woman writer: a special case of hypokrites 4. A double-voiced silence 5. Language in the crucible of the mind Part II: Psychoanalysis 6. Maternal role and personal identity: on the women's movement and psychoanalysis 7. In search of the mirror: fusion and differentiation in women's groups 8. The female animal Part III: History 9. Premiss: a figure of power and an invitation to history Epilogue: to room nineteen 10. On 'mothers' and 'sisters': fragments on women/feminism/historiography Part IV: Philosophy 11. Towards a theory of sexual difference 12. Jumping 13. On the female word and its 'spirit'
