True Confessions : : Feminist Professors Tell Stories out of School

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Susan Gubar / Introduction -- Nancy K. Miller / My father's penis -- Jane Marcus / A reasonable facsimile -- Tania Modleski / Answering for the consequences -- Dyan Elliott / The historian, her mother, and her dead women: past, present, and places in between -- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim / Fleeing and pioneering women: matrophobia and my (Asian American) feminist praxis -- Patricia Yaeger / Labial politics -- Jane Tompkins / The piano lesson -- Rayna Rapp / In my family, we spoke in tongues -- Sandra M. Gilbert / Confessions of a culinary transvestite -- Leila Ahmed / Islam in the family -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Foremothers -- Hazel Carby / Lost (and found?) in translation -- Neferti Tadiar / Unreconciled lives -- Ann DuCille / Feminism, black and blue -- Martha C. Nussbaum / "Don't smile so much": philosophy and women in the 1970s -- Ann Douglas / Crashing the top: women at elite universities -- Lillian Faderman / Hiding -- Jane Gallop / Feminist accused of sexual harassment -- Annette Kolodny / I dreamed again that I was drowning, with a postscript -- Frances Smith Foster / "Anyway, we certainly don't want to be lumped in with Black studies!" -- Hortense J. Spillers / Quarrels into ploughshares: feminism and race -- Tey Diana Rebolledo / What I have learned as a Chicana professor, or, "En bocas cerradas no entran moscas" -- Nancy J. Chodorow / The psychoanalyst, the sociologist, and the feminist: a retrospect -- Rosemary Radford Ruether / Critical connections in religion: an intellectual autobiography -- Linda Nochlin / Not too far from Brooklyn: growing up, growing old with art -- Susan McClary / The making of a feminist musicologist -- Jill Dolan / "I will survive": changing trends in feminism and performance.
"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.

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