Private Voices, Public Lives Women Speak on the Literary Life | |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Foreword | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xvii |
""""Tangled Together like Badly Cast Fishing Line"""" the Reader and the Text in Katherine Anne Porter's """"Pale Horse, Pale Rider"""" | p. 3 |
Love, Work, and Willa Cather | p. 11 |
The Voices from the Little House | p. 19 |
Rewriting the Love Plot Our Way Women and Work | p. 29 |
Nancy Drew-the Perfect Solution | p. 41 |
Wrestling with the Mother and the Father """"His"""" and """"Her"""" in Adrienne Rich | p. 54 |
In Search of the Androgynous Self | p. 64 |
From Robot to Roarer | p. 72 |
A White Bird Flying Straight Down | p. 86 |
Being an I-Witness-my Life as a Lesbian Teacher | p. 99 |
Mother/Daughter Dialog(ic)s In, Around and About Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club | p. 111 |
Offshore Women a Personal Log | p. 125 |
Metamorphosis Mutations of a Hungarian Continental Drifter into an American Woman | p. 141 |
Trapped-then Released-by a Gift from the Sea | p. 153 |
Speaking Across Boundaries and Sharing the Loss of a Child | p. 163 |
Trailing West | p. 183 |
a Spiritual Geography, Revisited | p. 194 |
Growing Up with Doctor Spock an Auto-Biography | p. 209 |
From Impersonators to Persons Breaking Patterns, Finding Voices | p. 225 |
Search and Rescue | p. 238 |
Diversity and the American Dream | p. 250 |
Women's Literature as Individuation for College Students | p. 261 |
Finding My Voice Caught Between a Woolf and a Crane | p. 270 |
Literary Criticism with a Human Face Virginia Woolf and the Common Reader | p. 283 |
Contributor Biographies | p. 299 |
Index to Authors, Characters, Subjects | p. 311 |
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