Jorge Sacido-Romero is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where he teaches English literature. His most recent publications on the short story include Modernism and Postmodernism in the English (Rodopi, 2012), ‘Ghostly Visitations’ in Atlantis 2016 and ‘Liminality in Janice Galloway’s Short Fiction’ ZAA (2018).Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where she teaches English literature and Gender Studies Her most recent publications on the short story include "Magic Realism and Experimental Fiction: From Virginia Woolf to Jeanette Winterson" in The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf (OUP; forthcoming 2018) and "Monica Ali’s Alentejo Blue: Tourists at a Cultural Crossroads", Miscelánea 2018.

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• AcknowledgementsList of Contributors1 IntroductionJORGE SACIDO-ROMERO AND LAURA Mª LOJO-RODRÍGUEZPART ITheorising Gender and Short Fiction2 Genre and Gender in British Modern and Contemporary Short FictionA Meta-Critical ApproachANNE BESNAULT-LEVITAPART IIIn Carter’s Wake3 The Legacy of Angela CarterEthics and Authorial Performance in Contemporary Short Fiction by WomenMICHELLE RYAN-SAUTOUR4 In the Company of WolvesWomen’s Fairy Tales after CarterPAUL MARCH-RUSSELLPART IIIBody Politics5 Tales of Femininity and SexualityCompeting Discourses and the Negotiation of Feminisms TodayEMMA YOUNG6 Genealogies of WomenDiscourses on Mothering and Motherhood in the Short Fiction of Michèle RobertsLAURA Mª LOJO-RODRÍGUEZ 7 "Oh Yes, Women Get Erect"Dismantling Sexual Standards in Jeanette Winterson’s Short FictionISABEL MARÍA ANDRÉS-CUEVASPART IVVoicing Differently8 (Un)gendering Voice and Affect in A.L. Kennedy’s Short FictionSYLVIA MIESZKOWSKI9 What’s in an Echo?Voice, Gender and Genre in Ali Smith’s Short StoriesMARÍA CASADO VILLANUEVA10 In a Different VoiceJanice Galloway’s Short StoriesJORGE SACIDO-ROMERO11 Speaking from Border CountryColour as Fluid Identity Factor in the Short Stories of Jackie KayBARBARA KORTEPART VNarrating Life12 Stories Told and UntoldRe-Gendering the First World War through Centenary Narratives. ISABEL CARRERA-SUÁREZ13 Women’s Transcultural Experience in A.S. Byatt’s Short StoriesCARMEN LARA-RALLO14 "Why Don’t You Have a Go at a Novel?"Gender through Genre in Helen Simpson’s StoriesLAURA TORRES-ZÚÑIGAPART VILatest News15 New Voices in British Short Stories by WomenAILSA COX