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Presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers—their intertwined lives as professionals, feminists, writers, instructors, and colleagues.
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 backgrounds, personalities, and cultures that have shaped their personae as instructors of writing.
The contributors explore the intersections of their past and present experiences that influence and guide their development as writers and as instructors of writing. The book discusses how women can emerge from silence, gain authority and power as professionals, and balance the private and public aspects of their lives. In addition, it addresses how women constitute themselves as literacy teachers and what models of feminist pedagogy emerge.
Women/Writing/Teaching is notable for the range, depth, and richness of the chapters; the dynamic interplay of voices, approaches, issues, and concerns; the multiethnic focus; and the high quality of the writings. It will prompt readers to explore their own life stories and to comprehend more fully women's complex lives as teaching professionals.
"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
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Silence and Words
1. Teaching College English as a Woman
Lynn Z. Bloom
2. Voicing My Self: An Unfinished Journey
Karen Ann Chaffee
3. Sailing Back to Byzantium
Pamela Chergotis
4. She-ro-ism
Diane Glancy
5. The Story of a Woman Writing/Teaching: "The Shining Elusive Spirit"
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
Part II: Authority and Authorship
6. Writing on the Bias
Linda Brodkey
7. And May He Be Bilingual: Notes on Writing, Teaching, and Multiculturalism
Judith Ortiz Cofer
8. The Point at Which Past and Future Meet
Lynne Crockett
9. Teaching and Writing "As If [My] Life Depended On It"
Ann Victoria Dean
10. From Silence to Words: Writing As Struggle
Min-zhan Lu
11. Mothers/Daughters/Writing/Teaching
Elaine P. Maimon and Gillian B. Maimon
12. Between the Drafts
Nancy Sommers
Part III: Visions of Embodied Teaching
13. Freedom, Form, Function: Varieties of Academic Discourse
Lillian Bridwell-Bowles
14. A Collage of Time: Writing and Ritual in Women's Studies
E. M. Broner
15. Teaching Elders: A Journal
Mary Gordon
16. Engaged Pedagogy (from Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom )
bell hooks
17. Composing a Pleasurable Life
Sondra Perl
18. As if your life depended on it (from What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics )
Adrienne Rich
19. We Was Girls Together: Race and Class and Southern Women
Hephzibah Roskelly
20. Time Alone, Place Apart: The Role of Spiracy in Using the Power of Solitude
Jacqueline Jones Royster
Bibliography
Contributors