The riddles of the sphinx: inheriting the feminist history of the crossword puzzle

"I pronouns thee"

The riddles of the sphinx. I: Black-and-white thinking

II: Ruth Hale and the crossword craze

III: Margaret Farrar and the domestication of the crossword

The sexual politics of wordplay. IV: Do crossword puzzles: advice to a young psychoanalyst

V: Julia Penelope, cunning linguist

Politicizing a pastime. VI: When computers replaced women

VII: The paradoxes of Ruth von Phul.