True confessions
Subtitle: feminist professors tell stories out of school
By: edited by Susan Gubar
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780393076431
Subjects: Anecdotes; Women college teachers; Feminism; Biography; Feminists
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Susan Gubar; title: My father's penis / Nancy K. Miller; title: A reasonable facsimile / Jane Marcus; title: Answering for the consequences / Tania Modleski; title: The historian, her mother, and her dead women: past, present, and places in between / Dyan Elliott; title: Fleeing and pioneering women : matrophobia and my (Asian American) feminist praxis / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim; title: Labial politics / Patricia Yaeger; title: The piano lesson / Jane Tompkins; title: In my family, we spoke in tongues / Rayna Rapp; title: Confessions of a culinary transvestite / Sandra M. Gilbert; title: Islam in the family / Leila Ahmed; title: Foremothers / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; title: Lost (and found?) in translation / Hazel Carby; title: Unreconciled lives / Neferti Tadiar; title: Feminism, black and blue / Ann DuCille; title: "Don't smile so much" : philosophy and women in the 1970s /  Martha C. Nussbaum; title: Crashing the top: women at elite universities / Ann Douglas; title: Hiding / Lillian Faderman; title: Feminist accused of sexual harassment / Jane Gallop; title: I dreamed again that I was drowning, with a postscript / Annette Kolodny; title: "Anyway, we certainly don't want to be lumped  in with Black studies!" / Frances Smith Foster; title: Quarrels into ploughshares : feminism and race / Hortense J. Spillers; title: What I have learned as a Chicana professor, or, "En bocas cerradas no entran moscas" / Tey Diana Rebolledo; title: The psychoanalyst, the sociologist, and the feminist : a retrospect / Nancy J. Chodorow; title: Critical connections in religion : an intellectual autobiography / Rosemary Radford Ruether; title: Linda Nochlin / Not too far from Brooklyn: growing up, growing old with art; title: The making of a feminist musicologist / Susan McClary; title: "I will survive" : changing trends in feminism and performance / Jill Dolan.