Preface. On accidental education and reading the body -- Introduction. Written on the symbolic body : reading the pattern of the other woman -- Part One. Understanding the body of the other woman. Other women's bodies in Welty's "Girl stories" : ladies, flashers, and the daring escape of female sheltering -- Welty's photography and the other woman -- Silence, sheltering, and exposure in "Music from Spain" and The bride of the innisfallen and other stories : Eudora Welty in John Robinson's closet -- -- Part Two. Controversies in Welty criticism : figuring the body. Was Welty a feminist? Wild-haired maternity, the freak body, and comedy -- "Before the indifferent beak could let her drop" : interrogating rape - comic and otherwise - in Welty's fiction -- The body of the other woman and the performance of race : what Welty knew -- Postscript. A last word on continuity and change in Welty's career.
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