Introduction / E. Ann Kaplan -- Klute 1: a contemporary film noir and feminist criticism / Christine Gledhill -- Woman's place: the absent family of film noir / Sylvia Harvey -- Women in film noir / Janey Place -- Duplicity in Mildred Pierce / Pam Cook -- The place of women in Fritz Lang's The blue Gardenia / E. Ann Kaplan -- Resistance through charisma: Rita Hayworth and Gilda / Richard Dyer -- Double indemnity / Claire Johnston -- Klute 2: feminism and Klute / Christine Gledhill -- Filmography