| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| Contents | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-19页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第13-16页 |
| ·The Base of the Comparative Study | 第16页 |
| ·The Definitions of Key Terms | 第16-17页 |
| ·Assumption | 第17页 |
| ·Methodology | 第17-18页 |
| ·Contribution | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Two The Conflict Between Fulfilling Traditional female roles and Achieving Female Self | 第19-32页 |
| ·Conventional Female Roles and Female Self-assertion in Western Countries | 第19-24页 |
| ·Conventional Female Roles and Female Self-assertion in China | 第24-27页 |
| ·Social Context in Two Books | 第27-32页 |
| ·Canadian Women in the 1960s and 1970s | 第28-29页 |
| ·ChineseWomen in the 1980s | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Three The Resistance Strategies in The Edible Woman | 第32-46页 |
| ·Marian's Anorexia Nervosa——an unconscious struggle | 第32-36页 |
| ·Resistance Against the Conventional gender roles and courtship rituals | 第36-41页 |
| ·Resistance Against the socially idealized maternal role | 第41-46页 |
| Chapter Four The Resistance Strategies in Fang Zhou | 第46-57页 |
| ·Resistance against the confinement of the female selves within the patriarchal discourse by divorce | 第46-50页 |
| ·Choose Extreme "Masculinisation" against patriarchy | 第50-54页 |
| ·Constructing "Female Bond "against the oppression of patriarchy | 第54-57页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第57-64页 |
| ·Their Final Target——Achieving Multiple and dynamic Female Selves | 第57-60页 |
| ·The Similarities of Their Resistance | 第57-59页 |
| ·The Differences of Their Resistance | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Summary of this Thesis | 第60-62页 |
| ·Limitations | 第62页 |
| ·Problems to be settled | 第62-64页 |
| Notes | 第64-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-73页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第73-74页 |
