| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-20页 |
| 1．1 Doris Lessing: a brief review | 第9-12页 |
| 1．2 The Diaries of Jane Somers: a literature review | 第12-14页 |
| 1．3 Research questions and thesis statement | 第14-15页 |
| 1．4 Methodology | 第15-16页 |
| 1．5 Structure of the thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Notes to chapter one | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Mother-Daughter Literature | 第20-31页 |
| 2．1 Mother-daughter bond as resistance to heterosexual romance plot | 第20-22页 |
| 2．2 The Demeter-Persephone myth: recovery of the lost tradition | 第22-23页 |
| 2．3 Mother-daughter representation in 19~(th)-century female fiction | 第23-25页 |
| 2．4 From Virginia Woolf to Doris Lessing: a new mother-daughter plot | 第25-30页 |
| Notes to chapter two | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter 3 Psychoanalytic Mother-Daughter Discourses | 第31-42页 |
| 3．1 Sigmund Freud: the neglect of pre-Oedipal female bonding | 第31-33页 |
| 3．2 Nancy Chodorow: object-relations theory | 第33-35页 |
| 3．3 Jessica Benjamin: the notion of intersubjectivity | 第35-37页 |
| 3．4 Jacque Lacan: the symbolic order | 第37-38页 |
| 3．5 French Feminist Psychoanalysts: Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva | 第38-41页 |
| Notes to chapter three | 第41-42页 |
| Chapter 4 Mother-Daughter Representation in Diaries | 第42-66页 |
| 4．1 A revised mother-daughter story | 第42-48页 |
| 4．1．1 Ambivalence towards mother-daughter relationship | 第43-46页 |
| 4．1．2 Reflection on ambivalence | 第46-48页 |
| 4．2 The Diary of a Good Neighbor | 第48-58页 |
| 4．2．1 A quest for lost mother | 第48-50页 |
| 4．2．2 Mother/daughterhood and female identity | 第50-51页 |
| 4．2．3 Janna's self-discovery and identity formation | 第51-55页 |
| 4．2．4 Bridging a female tradition: mother's history and Janna's creation | 第55-58页 |
| 4．3 If the Old Could | 第58-65页 |
| 4．3．1 The question of mother's subjectivity | 第58-60页 |
| 4．3．2 Motherhood as an experience | 第60-63页 |
| 4．3．3 Intersubjectivity as a healthy mother-daughter relationship | 第63-65页 |
| Notes to chapter four | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第66-70页 |
| Notes to chapter five | 第69-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-75页 |
