Women/Writing/Teaching

Jan Zlotnik Schmidt is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Composition Program, State University of New York, New Paltz. Her previously published work includes Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction (with Carley Bogarad) and We Speak in Tongues (a volume of poetry).

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Silence and Words 1. Teaching College English as a Woman Lynn Z. Bloom2. Voicing My Self: An Unfinished Journey Karen Ann Chaffee3. Sailing Back to Byzantium Pamela Chergotis4. She-ro-ism Diane Glancy5. The Story of a Woman Writing/Teaching: "The Shining Elusive Spirit" Jan Zlotnik SchmidtPart II: Authority and Authorship 6. Writing on the Bias Linda Brodkey7. And May He Be Bilingual: Notes on Writing, Teaching, and Multiculturalism Judith Ortiz Cofer8. The Point at Which Past and Future Meet Lynne Crockett9. Teaching and Writing "As If [My] Life Depended On It" Ann Victoria Dean10. From Silence to Words: Writing As Struggle Min-zhan Lu11. Mothers/Daughters/Writing/Teaching Elaine P. Maimon and Gillian B. Maimon12. Between the Drafts Nancy SommersPart III: Visions of Embodied Teaching 13. Freedom, Form, Function: Varieties of Academic Discourse Lillian Bridwell-Bowles14. A Collage of Time: Writing and Ritual in Women's Studies E. M. Broner15. Teaching Elders: A Journal Mary Gordon16. Engaged Pedagogy (from Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom ) bell hooks17. Composing a Pleasurable Life Sondra Perl18. As if your life depended on it (from What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics ) Adrienne Rich19. We Was Girls Together: Race and Class and Southern Women Hephzibah Roskelly20. Time Alone, Place Apart: The Role of Spiracy in Using the Power of Solitude Jacqueline Jones RoysterBibliography Contributors

"I found the use of the personal 'I' narrative illuminating. There is such a vast range of approaches—some of these women reveal a great deal of personal history, some limit themselves to general events rather than detailed memories, but all seem to struggle toward more than a private understanding of what their stories mean, and to greater or lesser degrees, interpret and analyze their story in the telling. This self-scrutiny adds great dimension and accessibility to stories that might otherwise not have any obvious connection to readers." — Mary Ann Cain, author of Revisioning Writers' Talk: Gender and Culture in Acts of Composing