Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288)
pt. 1 - Silence and words: Teaching college English as a woman - Lynn Z. Bloom -- - Voicing my self: an unfinished journey - Karen Ann Chaffee -- - Sailing back to Byzantium - Pamela Chergotis -- - She-ro-ism - Diane Glancy -- - The story of a woman writing/teaching: "the shining elusive spirit" - Jan Zlotnik Schmidt -- - pt. 2 - Authority and authorship: Writing on the bias - Linda Brodkey -- - And may he be bilingual: notes on writing, teaching, and multiculturalism - Judith Ortiz Cofer -- - The point at which past and future meet - Lynne Crockett -- - Teaching and writing "as if [my] life depended on it" - Ann Victoria Dean -- - From silence to words: writing as struggle - Min-zhan Lu -- - Mothers/daughters/writing/teaching - Elaine P. Maimon and Gillian B. Maimon -- - Between the drafts - Nancy Sommers -- - pt. 3 - Visions of embodied teaching: Freedom, form, function: varieties of academic discourse - Lillian Bridwell-Bowles -- - A collage of time: writing and ritual in women's studies - E.M. Broner -- - Teaching elders: a journal - Mary Gordon -- - Engaged pedagogy (from Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom) - bell hooks -- - Composing a pleasurable life - Sondra Perl -- - As if your life depended on it (from What is found there: notebooks on poetry and politics) - Adrienne Rich -- - We was girls together: race and class and Southern women - Hephzibah Roskelly -- - Time alone, place apart: the role of spiracy in using the power of solitude - Jacqueline Jones Royster
This book presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers-their complex lives as writers, as instructors, as feminists, as professionals in the academy. The authors explore their complex identities as teachers: the particular configurations of their pasts, gender, class, ethnic backgrounds, personalities, and cultures that have shaped their personae as instructors of writing
