RUTH O. SAXTON is Professor of English and Dean of Letters at Mills College where she co-founded the Women's Studies Program. She is the co-editor of Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold and has published essays on mothers and daughters, Doris Lessing, Anne Tyler, and Virginia Woolf.

• Introduction; R.O.Saxton Where Is She Going, Where Are We Going, at Century's End? The Girl as Site of Cultural Conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's The Model ; B.Daly Self-Possession, Dolls, Beatlemania, Loss: Telling the Girl's Own Story; G.Hausknecht The Battleground of the Adolescent Girl's Body; B.Boudreau When the Back Door is Closed and the Front Yard is Dangerous: The Space of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's Fiction; D.Cadman Dizzying Possibilities, Plots, and Endings: Girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach ; E.A.Walker 'I Ain't No FRIGGIN' LITTLE WIMP': The Girl 'I' Narrator in Fiction by Women; R.Curry Coming of Age in the Snare of History: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother ; D.Simmons Subversive Storytelling: The Construction of Lesbian Girlhood through Fantasy and Fairytale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ; I.A.Gamallo But That Was in Another Country: Girlhood and the Contemporary 'Coming to America' Narrative; R.M.George Notes on Contributors

RUTH O. SAXTON is Professor of English and Dean of Letters at Mills College where she co-founded the Women's Studies Program. She is the co-editor of Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold and has published essays on mothers and daughters, Doris Lessing, Anne Tyler, and Virginia Woolf.

• Introduction; R.O.Saxton Where Is She Going, Where Are We Going, at Century's End? The Girl as Site of Cultural Conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's The Model ; B.Daly Self-Possession, Dolls, Beatlemania, Loss: Telling the Girl's Own Story; G.Hausknecht The Battleground of the Adolescent Girl's Body; B.Boudreau When the Back Door is Closed and the Front Yard is Dangerous: The Space of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's Fiction; D.Cadman Dizzying Possibilities, Plots, and Endings: Girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach ; E.A.Walker 'I Ain't No FRIGGIN' LITTLE WIMP': The Girl 'I' Narrator in Fiction by Women; R.Curry Coming of Age in the Snare of History: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother ; D.Simmons Subversive Storytelling: The Construction of Lesbian Girlhood through Fantasy and Fairytale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ; I.A.Gamallo But That Was in Another Country: Girlhood and the Contemporary 'Coming to America' Narrative; R.M.George Notes on Contributors

RUTH O. SAXTON is Professor of English and Dean of Letters at Mills College where she co-founded the Women's Studies Program. She is the co-editor of Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold and has published essays on mothers and daughters, Doris Lessing, Anne Tyler, and Virginia Woolf.

• Introduction; R.O.Saxton Where Is She Going, Where Are We Going, at Century's End? The Girl as Site of Cultural Conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's The Model ; B.Daly Self-Possession, Dolls, Beatlemania, Loss: Telling the Girl's Own Story; G.Hausknecht The Battleground of the Adolescent Girl's Body; B.Boudreau When the Back Door is Closed and the Front Yard is Dangerous: The Space of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's Fiction; D.Cadman Dizzying Possibilities, Plots, and Endings: Girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach ; E.A.Walker 'I Ain't No FRIGGIN' LITTLE WIMP': The Girl 'I' Narrator in Fiction by Women; R.Curry Coming of Age in the Snare of History: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother ; D.Simmons Subversive Storytelling: The Construction of Lesbian Girlhood through Fantasy and Fairytale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ; I.A.Gamallo But That Was in Another Country: Girlhood and the Contemporary 'Coming to America' Narrative; R.M.George Notes on Contributors