This chapter concentrates on the subjective awareness and existential status of women displayed in the works of women writers such as Charlotte P. Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, at the turn into the twentieth century.

• 集中探讨了世纪之交的美国女性小说家，如夏洛特·P·吉尔曼、凯特·肖邦、伊迪丝·华顿和维拉·凯瑟等人的作品中所表现出来的女性主体意识和生存状态。