| 中文摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-10页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第10-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE KATE CHOPIN: THE FEMALE WRITER IN A MALE-DOMINATED WORLD | 第14-25页 |
| ·Kate Chopin—A Writer with Unusual Courage | 第14-18页 |
| ·The contemporary society Kate Chopin wrote against | 第14-16页 |
| ·The praising of the "degenerated woman" and criticizing of the "good woman" | 第16-18页 |
| ·Kate Chopin: A Writer ahead of Her Time | 第18-21页 |
| ·The unusual perspective in her writing | 第19-20页 |
| ·The unusual themes in her writing | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Reappraisal of Kate Chopin | 第21-25页 |
| CHAPTER TWO EDNA'S AWAKENING | 第25-50页 |
| ·The Reasons for Edna's Awakening | 第25-30页 |
| ·Unhappy Marriage | 第25-29页 |
| ·Edna's Double Personality | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Process of Edna's Awakening | 第30-50页 |
| ·Social Awakening | 第31-36页 |
| ·Sexual Awakening | 第36-42页 |
| ·Intellectual Awakening | 第42-45页 |
| ·Edna's Suicide | 第45-50页 |
| CHAPTER THREE AWAKENINGS AND PERPLEXITIES | 第50-64页 |
| ·Awakenings | 第50-56页 |
| ·The Awakening of the Self-Consciousness of Women in the World | 第50-54页 |
| ·The Awakening of the Author's Personal Self-Consciousness | 第54-56页 |
| ·Kate Chopin's Perplexity | 第56-64页 |
| ·Perplexity Brought about by Three Different Ways of Existence | 第56-60页 |
| ·Perplexity Brought about by the Complexity of Sex | 第60-61页 |
| ·Perplexity Brought about by the Contradiction between Rights and Obligations | 第61-62页 |
| ·Perplexity Brought about by the Sense of Loneliness in Women's Pursuit for Liberation | 第62-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| Notes | 第66-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-71页 |
| 在学期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第71页 |
