| Abstract (in English) | 第1-10页 |
| Abstract (in Chinese) | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Theoretical Perspective and Critical Survey | 第14-22页 |
| ·Theoretical Perspective: Feminist Criticism | 第14-18页 |
| ·Anglo-American Feminism | 第15-16页 |
| ·French Feminism | 第16-18页 |
| ·Critical Survey and Significance of the Thesis | 第18-22页 |
| ·A Critical Survey of George Eliot's and Willa Cather's Works | 第18-20页 |
| ·Significance of the Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Woman Question and Gender Conflict in Historical and Cultural Reality | 第22-29页 |
| ·Women's Living State in Victorian England | 第22-25页 |
| ·Suffering and Reticence | 第22-24页 |
| ·Prevailing Gender Assumptions and Women's Traditional Roles | 第24-25页 |
| ·Women's Living State in the Transitional Age of Early Twentieth Century of America | 第25-29页 |
| ·Challenge and Restlessness | 第25-27页 |
| ·Reshaping Gender Perception and Women's Unconventional Roles | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ A Comparison of the Woman Question in the Two Novels | 第29-64页 |
| ·Women's Self and Society | 第29-41页 |
| ·Maggie's Repressed Self and Self-abnegation | 第29-34页 |
| ·Antonia's Resistant Self and Self-reliance | 第34-40页 |
| ·A Comparison of Women's Self in the Two Novels | 第40-41页 |
| ·Women and Education | 第41-49页 |
| ·A Contrast of Tom's and Maggie's Education in The Mill on the Floss | 第41-44页 |
| ·A Contrast of Jim's and Antonia's Education in My Antonia | 第44-48页 |
| ·A Comparison of the Two Authors' Education Background and the Female Protagonists in Their Novels | 第48-49页 |
| ·Economy and Vocation | 第49-56页 |
| ·Man's Economic Privilege over Woman Underpinned by Industrialization in The Mill on the Floss | 第49-52页 |
| ·Woman's Entry into Business World and Economic Self-dependence in My Antonia | 第52-55页 |
| ·A Comparison of Woman's Economy and Vocation in the Two Novels | 第55-56页 |
| ·Love and Marriage | 第56-64页 |
| ·Maggie's Unfulfilling Love and Her Rejection of Marriage | 第56-59页 |
| ·Antonia's First Thwarted Love and Her Embrace of Marriage | 第59-62页 |
| ·A Comparison of Love and Marriage in the Two Novels | 第62-64页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Women Writers and Their Writing about Female Experience | 第64-73页 |
| ·Female Experience and Woman Writing | 第64-68页 |
| ·Identity Crisis of the Female Protagonists | 第64-67页 |
| ·Anxiety of Authorship of the Women Writers | 第67-68页 |
| ·Consonance and Dissonance between the Characters and Writers | 第68-71页 |
| ·Their Contribution to Woman Literature | 第71-73页 |
| Conclusion | 第73-75页 |
| Notes | 第75-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-86页 |
