| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-18页 |
| ·Katherine Anne Porter and Her Women Stories | 第9-12页 |
| ·A Literature Review | 第12-14页 |
| ·A Modern Theory of Human Body | 第14-16页 |
| ·Significance of a Feminist Study of Female Body as Narrated in Porter's Short stories | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Obedience:Female Body Caught in Patriarchal Narrative | 第18-29页 |
| ·Virgin Violeta | 第19-23页 |
| ·The Martyre | 第23-26页 |
| ·Flowering Judas | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Three Resistance:Female Body Reinforcing Patriarchal Narrative | 第29-47页 |
| ·Grandmother's Rebellion within the Boundaries of Patriarchal Norms | 第30-37页 |
| ·The Compliance of Grandmother with the Old Order | 第31-33页 |
| ·Grandmother's Rebellion within the Boundaries | 第33-37页 |
| ·Amy's Parodying of Patriarchal Norms | 第37-47页 |
| ·Amy the belle in the legend | 第37-39页 |
| ·The true Amy parodying the patriarchal norms | 第39-47页 |
| Chapter Four Disobedience:Female Body Presenting Counter Stories | 第47-56页 |
| ·Miranda as a new woman of sensitive observer | 第48-49页 |
| ·Miranda telling counter-stories | 第49-56页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第56-59页 |
| Works Cited | 第59-61页 |
