Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
Nietzsche's No to woman : knocking down an ideal -- The "secret source" : ancient Greek woman in Nietzsche's early notebooks -- The birth of tragedy and the feminine -- Yes, life is a woman : irony, metaphor, and "woman" in the gay science -- Zarathustra's whip : disciplining readers -- All things are enchained, entwined, in love : Zarathustra's eternal return -- Conclusion : Nietzsche's dangerous perhapses.