| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 334 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Susan Gubar -- My father's penis / Nancy K. Miller -- A reasonable facsimile / Jane Marcus -- Answering for the consequences / Tania Modleski -- The historian, her mother, and her dead women: past, present, and places in between / Dyan Elliott -- Fleeing and pioneering women : matrophobia and my (Asian American) feminist praxis / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Labial politics / Patricia Yaeger -- The piano lesson / Jane Tompkins -- In my family, we spoke in tongues / Rayna Rapp -- Confessions of a culinary transvestite / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Islam in the family / Leila Ahmed -- Foremothers / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Lost (and found?) in translation / Hazel Carby -- Unreconciled lives / Neferti Tadiar -- Feminism, black and blue / Ann DuCille --"Don't smile so much" : philosophy and women in the 1970s / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Crashing the top: women at elite universities / Ann Douglas -- Hiding / Lillian Faderman -- Feminist accused of sexual harassment / Jane Gallop -- I dreamed again that I was drowning, with a postscript / Annette Kolodny -- "Anyway, we certainly don't want to be lumped in with Black studies!" / Frances Smith Foster -- Quarrels into ploughshares : feminism and race / Hortense J. Spillers -- What I have learned as a Chicana professor, or, "En bocas cerradas no entran moscas" / Tey Diana Rebolledo -- The psychoanalyst, the sociologist, and the feminist : a retrospect / Nancy J. Chodorow -- Critical connections in religion : an intellectual autobiography / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Linda Nochlin / Not too far from Brooklyn: growing up, growing old with art -- The making of a feminist musicologist / Susan McClary -- "I will survive" : changing trends in feminism and performance / Jill Dolan. |
| Summary |
"In a series of autobiographical reflections, the twenty-seven contributors to this volume explore the grounds of their activism and the dilemmas they faced in the course of their careers."--P. [2] of jacket. |
| Subject |
Feminism -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Feminism. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Subject |
Feminists -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Feminists. |
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Women college teachers -- Biography.
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Women college teachers. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Feminists. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Gubar, Susan, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9780393076431 hardcover |
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0393076431 hardcover |
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