| Acknowledgments | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract (both in English and in Chinese) | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Women and the literature of their own | 第11-17页 |
| ·An introduction to Doris Lessing and her works | 第11-13页 |
| ·An introduction to Anna Wulf, her novels and notebooks | 第13-14页 |
| ·The interpenetration of the author and her protagonist | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter Two Free women and their dilemma | 第17-31页 |
| ·An introduction to free women | 第17-18页 |
| ·Two free women---- Anna and Molly | 第18-23页 |
| ·The ironical sense in “Free Women” | 第19-21页 |
| ·An analysis on the relations between Anna and Molly | 第21-23页 |
| ·The dilemma of free women | 第23-31页 |
| ·The paradox of freedom and marriage | 第23-25页 |
| ·Free women’s men | 第25-28页 |
| ·Free women and their children | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Three Women consciousness and their identity problems | 第31-47页 |
| ·Women consciousness and their different phases | 第31-36页 |
| ·The hibernating phase | 第32-33页 |
| ·The awakening phase | 第33-34页 |
| ·The maturing phase | 第34-36页 |
| ·The hard progress in quest of identity | 第36-47页 |
| ·Anna and her Women Identity | 第37-39页 |
| ·Anna’s complex of being a mother | 第39-42页 |
| ·Writer Anna and her writer’s block | 第42-44页 |
| ·The communist Anna and her political disillusionment | 第44-47页 |
| Chapter Four Dreams and the “joy-in-destruction”principle | 第47-52页 |
| ·The embodiment of Anna’s split selves in dreams | 第47-49页 |
| ·The dwarf image and the “joy-in-destruction”principle | 第49-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-56页 |
