Women/writing/teaching / [edited by] Jan Zlotnik Schmidt.
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 backgroun...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.