<p>This is an exploration of the history of the woman&rsquo;s dilemma in history and literature. Lena Ross has collected articles on disobedient women from Eve and Bedouin women to Jane Eyre, Dona Luz, and Virginia Woolf&mdash;how they have challenged male dominance and the structures of patriarchal oppression.</p><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><p><strong>Introduction by Lena B. Ross.</strong></p><p><strong>CREATING A WORLD</strong></p><p>Eve: Reflections on the Psychology of the First Disobedient Women &ndash;Juddith Hubback</p><p>Before the Fall(s): Native American Women and the Concept of Disobedience -&nbsp; Patricia Clark Smith</p><p>Analyzing Resistance: Bedouin Women&#39;s Discourses - Lila Abu-Lughod</p><p><strong>CREATING A SELF</strong></p><p>Strategies of Defiance: The Quest of the Wife of Bath - Judith Grossman</p><p>Stepping Off the Path: Disobedience and Story-Making in 'Little Red-Cap&rdquo; &ndash; Jeanie Watson</p><p>'Speak I Must': Jane Eyre and the Discourse of Disobedience &ndash; Lena B. Ross</p><p>To Speak or Be Spoken: Some Women in African Literature - Marjolijn de Jager</p><p>Apple, Nabila, and Ramza: Arab Women&#39;s Narratives of Resistance - Miriam Cooke</p><p>Staying in the Place of Danger: The Disobedient, Poetic 'I' of Dahlia Ravikovitch - Nili Rachel Scharf Gold</p><p><strong>TRANSFORMING A WORLD</strong></p><p>Women Who Disobey: Examples from India - Manisha Roy</p><p>The Whirlwind and the Spiral: State-Sponsored Terror and Psychic Resistance in Marta Traba&#39;s <em>Mothers and Shadows</em> &ndash; Teresa Anderson</p><p>At War with Home in South Africa: Writing by Ellen Kuzwayo and Lauretta Ngcobo - Jane Foress Bennett</p><p><strong>RAGE AND DISOBEDIENCE: LIKE A RAISIN IN THE SUN</strong></p><p>Medea&#39;s Fiery Chariot - Carol Savitz</p><p>Some Archetypal Foundations of Self-Spite in the Welsh Mabinogion - Sylvia Brinton Perera</p><p>Suchieh: The Untamed Shrew of <em>Hsing-shih Yin-yuan</em> - Fan Pen Chen</p><p>Virginia Woolf: The Tragedy of Unconscious Disobedience - Jane White-Lewis</p><p><strong>WOMEN OF POWER: WHOSE HERO IS SHE, ANYWAY?</strong></p><p>Princess of Resolution: The Emergence of Al-Amira Dhat al-Himma, A Medieval Arab Warrior Woman - Wen-chin Ouyang</p><p>From Coatlicue to Doiia Luz: Mitotes in Chicana Literature - Tey Diana Rebolledo</p><p>Lye Throwers and Lovely Renegades: The Road from Bitch to Hero for Black Women in Fiction and Poetry - Jewelle Gomez</p><p>Forbidden Words-Enchanting Song: The Treatment of Delilah in Literature and Music - Elaine Hoffman Baruch</p>