The sexual revolution and its unsettling redefinitions have led to a new sensitivity to the impact of gender on the artistic imagination. In particular, women writers have entered an exciting new era in which their gender-related fictional strategies are being uncovered and understood. Dance of the Sexes investigates the ways in which the fiction of Canadian author Alice Munro is shaped by her sex.

Includes index.

1. Alice: the woman behind the art -- 2. Feminist -- Her own tribe: a feminist odyssey -- 3. Folk artist and ironist -- Humor comes best to those who are down and out -- 4. Regionalist -- Wawanash County: a landscape of mind, a mythic place -- 5. The short story writer as female -- Forms and techniques.