| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5页 |
| Introduction | 第7-20页 |
| Willa Cather and the Two Novels | 第7-8页 |
| Theories of Feminism | 第8-9页 |
| Literature Review | 第9-20页 |
| Chapter One Two of a Prairie Trilogy | 第20-25页 |
| 1.1 Wild Nebraska | 第20-21页 |
| 1.2 A Female Pioneers' Epic | 第21-23页 |
| 1.3 The Beginning and Peak Period of the American Westward Settlement | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two Rebels in the Patriarchal Society | 第25-33页 |
| 2.1 Female Pioneers on the Nebraska Prairie | 第25-28页 |
| 2.1.1 Developing self-awareness of Female Pioneers | 第25-27页 |
| 2.1.2 The Changing Relationship between Female Pioneers and Nature | 第27-28页 |
| 2.2 The Deconstruction of Gender | 第28-33页 |
| 2.2.1 Subversion of Traditional Family Relations | 第28-30页 |
| 2.2.2 Gender Displacement | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Three Key Features of Cather's Feminism | 第33-41页 |
| 3.1 Feminism Growing out of Pioneer Life | 第33-36页 |
| 3.2 Distinctive Qualities of Cather's Feminism by a comparative study with Virginia Woolf | 第36-41页 |
| 3.2.1 The Influences of Life Experience on Feminist Content | 第36-39页 |
| 3.2.2 Different External Forms of Feminism | 第39-41页 |
| Conclusion | 第41-43页 |
| Bibliography | 第43-46页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第46页 |
