| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-16页 |
| Chapter One Influences on Shepard about the Female Characters | 第16-22页 |
| ·Shepard's Social Milieu | 第16-18页 |
| ·Family Influence on Shepard about the Female Characters | 第18-19页 |
| ·Influences from His Contemporary Females | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter Two The Other:A Common State of the Female Characters in Shepard's Plays | 第22-28页 |
| ·The Concept of"the Other" from Feminist Perspective | 第22-23页 |
| ·"the Other" in Shepard's plays | 第23-28页 |
| Chapter Three The First Stage:Female Characters' Struggling Without Self-Consciousness | 第28-33页 |
| ·Peripheral Passive Survivors:Women in Early Plays | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Seeming Seeker without Achieving Selfhood:Cavale in Cowboy Mouth | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Four The Second Stage:Female Characters' Process to Selfhood | 第33-47页 |
| ·Claiming Selfhood Through Revenge and Refusal:Shelly in Buried Child | 第33-36页 |
| ·The Fighter for Independence:May in Fool for Love | 第36-39页 |
| ·Final Success:Beth and Meg in A Lie of the Mind | 第39-47页 |
| Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| Bibliography | 第49-51页 |
