附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.
1. Woman's Mission as Domestic Angel. Bourgeois Gender Ideology and the angel del hogar. Women Writers and the Domestic Ideal. Problems and Paradoxes -- 2. Galdos and the Woman Question. Galdos's Affiliations with the prensa femenina. Galdosian Reflections on Woman's Place. Engendering the Novel: Galdos's Vision of Realism -- 3. Suffering Women. Gender and Representation in the Early Novels. The Bird-Angel in Gloria. Leon Roch's Wife -- 4. Struggling with the Angel. Consuming Passions: Luxury and the Sexual Politics of Representation in the Contemporary Novels. In Search of the Ideal Woman: Educating Manso. The Angel in Mind: Rereading Fortunata y Jacinta -- 5. Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Fin de Siecle in Spain. Tristana and the "Legless Angel of Victorian Romance" Seeing the Light: Halma's Conversation -- 6. New Women. Decadence and the New Woman. The novelas dialogadas: La loca de la casa and El abuelo. Teaching Women -- Appendix 1. List of Galdos's Novels -- Appendix 2. "La mision de la mujer."