Introduction 1
Ⅰ．Origin of the Study 1
Ⅱ．Literary Status of Adrienne Rich and Her Works 2
Ⅲ．Critical Overview 5
Ⅳ．Research Questions,Guiding Principles and Framework 17
Chapter One Definition of Gender Poetics and Ferment of Rich's Gender Poetics 23
Ⅰ．Definition of Gender Poetics 24
Ⅱ．Rich's Initiation of Gender Poetics 26
Ⅲ．Ferment of Rich's Gender Poetics 35
Chapter Two Construction of Gender Poetics in Rich's Prose 49
Ⅰ．Redefining Female Sexuality 50
Ⅱ．The Personal as Political 79
Ⅲ．Renaming the Materiality of Female Experience 90
Ⅳ．Restructuring Feminist Analysis and Criticism 97
Chapter Three Interplay between Gender Politics and Poetics 117
Ⅰ．Poetic Persona and Female Identity Reconstruction 120
Ⅱ．Use of Common Language to Deconstruct Power of Patriarchal Language 155
Ⅲ．Re-forming Conventionality of Poetry 185
Chapter Four Assessment of Lesbian Feminism as Kernel of Rich's Gender Poetics 199
Ⅰ．Radicalism in Rich's Lesbian Feminist Stance 200
Ⅱ．Utopia behind Radicalism 215
Conclusion 223
Abbreviations 230
Ⅰ．Abbreviations of Rich's Works 230
Ⅱ．Other Abbreviations 231
Works Cited 232
Primary Sources 232
Secondary Sources 234
附录 246
艾德里安娜·里奇作品总览 246
艾德里安娜·里奇诗歌选译 249
Acknowledgements 265