Reading Coetzee's Women

Chapter 1: J. M. Coetzee and the Woman Question.- Chapter 2: He and his Woman: Passing Performances and Coetzee's Dialogic Drag.- Chapter 3: Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Costello: Coetzee's Female Characters and the Limits of the Sympathetic Imagination.- Chapter 4: 'A New Footing': Re-Reading the Barbarian Girl in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians.- Chapter 5: Art and the Female in Youth: Between Joyce and Beckett.- Chapter 6: 'Beauty does not own itself': Coetzee's Feminist Critique of Platonic and Kantian Aesthetics.- Chapter 7: J. M. Coetzee and the Women of the Canon.- Chapter 8: Robinsonaden in the Feminine? Coetzee's Foe and Muriel Spark's Robinson.- Chapter 9: The Fixation on the Womb and the Ambiguity of the Mother in Life & Times of Michael K.- Chapter 10: 'God knows whether there is a Dulcinea in this world or not': Idealised Passion and Undecidable Desire in J. M. Coetzee.- Chapter 11: Seeing where others see nothing: Coetzee's Magda, Cassandra in the Karoo.- Chapter 12: Reading Coetzee Expectantly: From Magda to Lucy.- Chapter 13: Women's Knowledge and Women's Frank Speech in J. M. Coetzee's Summertime.- Chapter 14: On beyond the representational binary: Coetzee (and the women) take wing.