Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Female Mysticism: A Historical Perspective
Part 1 Marie de l'Incarnation
Chapter 2. The Female Mystical Body in Transition: From the Rhetoric of Suffering to the Rhetoric of Health
Chapter 3. From France to Canada / From Motherhood to Subjecthood: Mystical Writing as Distancing
Chapter 4. The Double BindThe Invisible Historical Subject as Historiographer
Chapter 5. The Confrontation between "Civilized" and "Savage" Femininity in the New World
Part 2 Madame Guyon
Chapter 6. A Figure of Transition: Madame Guyon between the Female Mystical Tradition and the Emergence of a New Era
Chapter 7. The Quarrel of Quietism and the Construction of Modern Femininity
Chapter 8. Guyon's Autobiography at the Crossroads of History
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index