| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Elaine Showalter | 第10-11页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Framework and Significance of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two An Overview of Showalter's Academic Achievements | 第15-22页 |
| ·Showalter's Major Works | 第15-18页 |
| ·Showalter and Gynocritics | 第18-21页 |
| ·Summary | 第21-22页 |
| Chapter Three Forging Female Literary Tradition | 第22-47页 |
| ·'Images of Women' Criticism | 第22-25页 |
| ·"Female Subculture":A Literature of Their Own:British Women Novelists from Bront(e|¨) to Lessing | 第25-35页 |
| ·"Patchwork quilt":Sister's Choice Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing | 第35-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Four The Theoretical Dimension of Gynocritics | 第47-60页 |
| ·"Feminist Critique":"Towards a Feminist Poetics" | 第47-51页 |
| ·Redefining Women's text and writing:"Feminist criticism in the Wilderness" | 第51-56页 |
| ·The Practice of Theorizing American Gynocriticism:"American Gynocriticism" | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第60-62页 |
| Notes | 第62-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-68页 |
