Contemporary reviews and the 1940s:innovation, experimentalism, impressionism The 1950s and 1960s: philosophy,psychology, myth The 1970s and 1980s: feminism, androgyny,modernism, aesthetics The 1980s: feminism, postmodernism,sexual/textual politics The 1990s to the present: feminism,historicism, postcolonialism, ethics Notes Guide to further reading Index