Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger -- Out from the Shadows! - Ilse Aichinger's Poetic Dreams of the Unfettered Life / Edward R. McDonald -- Murder and Self-Resuscitation in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina / Margaret McCarthy -- Mayrocker's Fictional Autobiography / Beth Bjorklund -- Doris Muhringer at Seventy-Five: "Reisen wir" / Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr -- Ruth Kluger's weiter leben: eine Jugend: A Jewish Woman's "Letter to Her Mother" / Jennifer Taylor -- History from a Woman's Perspective: Renate Welsh's Lufthaus / Beth Bjorklund -- Barbara Frischmuth's Use of Mythology in Her "Demeter Trilogy" / Pamela S. Saur -- Anna Mitgutsch's Portrayal of Women: Not Only a Feminist Issue / Gerd K. Schneider -- The Possibilities and Limitations of Language: Elisabeth Reichart's Fotze / Linda DeMeritt -- Elfriede Gerstl: Understatement / Konstanze Fliedl -- Elfriede Czurda: Poison and Play / Kristie A. Foell -- Med Ana Fraundintn: Critical Dialect Poetry. Lesser Known Poetic Ventures by Christine Nostlinger, Annemarie Regensburger, and Anna Nost / Klaus Zeyringer -- Writing and Remembering - Acts of Resistance in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina and Der Fall Franza, and Elfriede Jelinek's Lust and Die Klavierspielerin: Case Studies in Hysteria / Nancy C. Erickson -- Bachmann, Jelinek, Schroeter: Malina, From Metaphoric Text to Encoded Cinema / Margret Eifler -- Austria's Feminist Avant-Garde: Valie Export's and Elfriede Jelinek's Aesthetic Innovations / Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger -- The Prosthetic Womb: Technology and Reproduction in the Work of Valie Export / Roswitha Mueller -- Out from the Shadows, into the Shadows: Kitty Kino's "Kino" / Jutta Landa -- Ruth Beckermann: Re-Activating Memory - In Search of Time Lost / Renate S. Posthofen -- From the Shadows into Silence: What Remains of the World of Milena Jesenska. Nadja Seelich's Film Sie sass im Glashaus und warf mit Steinen in Context / Dagmar C. G. Lorenz -- Interview with Nadja Seelich: August 29, 1994 at 7:30 p.m., Cafe Museum, Vienna, Austria / Dagmar C. G. Lorenz.