Doris Lessing's intense commitment / James Gindin -- The golden notebook / Dorothy Brewster -- Self-analytic women : The golden notebook / Paul Schlueter -- Doris Lessing in the sixties : the new anatomy of melancholy / Frederick R. Karl -- Free women / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Feeling and reason in Doris Lessing's fiction / Lynn Sukenick -- The Sufi teaching story and Doris Lessing / Nancy Shields Hardin -- "A rehearsal for madness" : hysteria as sanity in The four-gated city / Barbara Hill Rigney -- Briefing for a descent into hell / Roberta Rubenstein -- New worlds / Lorna Sage -- Doris Lessing and the parables of growth / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Bad housekeeping / Alison Lurie