Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Risking the Personal An Introduction -- Chapter 1: Turning Points An Interview with Linda Smuckler (1982) -- Early Writing Experiences --...
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Risking the Personal An Introduction -- Chapter 1: Turning Points An Interview with Linda Smuckler (1982) -- Early Writing Experiences -- Grade School -- High School -- A Sense of Difference -- College -- My Task": Making Face, Making Soul, Making Heart -- Sexuality/Spirituality/Writing -- First Turning Point: Teaching (and) Chicano Culture -- Second Turning Point: Entering the Feminist Movement -- The "Path of Writing -- Third Turning Point: Becoming a Full-Time Writer -- Another Turning Point: Teaching "La Mujer Chicana -- This Bridge -- Audience and Voice -- Publishing and "El Mundo Zurdo -- Writing the Body, Becoming a Mouth -- Other Influences -- Chapter 2: Within the Crossroads Lesbian/Feminist/Spiritual Development An Interview with Christine Weiland (1983) -- Early Life -- Bodies and Health -- Religions -- Yoga of the Body -- Off the Rational Track -- Meditations, Making Love to the Divine -- Spirituality and Power -- Becoming Lesbian? -- Ethnic Pride, Worldwide Oneness -- The Gathering of the Tribe -- La Facultad -- Chapter 3: Lesbian Wit Conversation with Jeffner Allen (late 1980s) -- Labels -- Shapeshifting, Changing Identities -- Bridges, Rainbows, Coalitions -- Reading -- Compartmentalized Identities -- Imaginai, Psychic Identities -- Lesbian Writings and Audiences -- Chapter 4: Making Choices Writing, Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Political An Interview with AnaLouise Keating (1991) -- This Bridge and Haciendo Caras -- New Interconnections: Moving from Unity to Solidarity -- Spirituality: "Roots," Masks, Essentialism -- Becoming Lesbian? -- Always on the Other Side/del otro lado: Differences, Lesberadas -- Representation: Individual and Collective "We.
