Daughters of valor: contemporary Jewish American women writers

Introduction: erasing and embracing the past: America and its Jewish writers

men and women / Ben Siegel

"In life I am not free": The writer Cynthia Ozick and her Jewish obligations / Susanne Klingenstein

"Daughters of refugees of the ongoing-universal-endless-upheaval": Anne Roiphe and the quest for narrative power in Jewish American women's fiction / Miriyam Glazer

Anne Roiphe: finding her America / Jay L. Halio

Responding to an old story: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Leslea Newman, and Francine Prose / Victoria Aarons

Erica Jong: becoming a Jewish writer / Charlotte Templin

The "Pin with which to stick yourself": the Holocaust in Jewish American women's writing / Sara R. Horowitz

Norma Rosen: an American literary response to the Holocaust / S. Lillian Kremer

Resisting the melting pot: the Jewish back-story in the fiction of Lynne Sharon Schwartz / James M. Mellard

Adrienne Rich: "Stuck to earth" / Karen W. Klein

Kael and farewell / Steven G. Kellman

Wendy Wasserstein and the crisis of (Jewish) identity / Stephen J. Whitfield

Immersions in the postmodern: the fiction of Allegra Goodman / Gloria L. Cronin

Writing Jewish fiction in and out of the multicultural context / Allegra Goodman.