1 Introduction
2 Cultural Histories of the Intellectual: From Patriarchal Myth to Feminist Mythopoeia
3 A. S. Byatt: Creating the Intellectual Woman
4 Minds and Bodies
5 Intellectuals and Sexual Specificity
6 Women Intellectuals, Private Intellectuals?
7 Future Histories of Intellectual Women
8 Afterword: Mythopoeia: Beyond Torment