Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I Body Time
1. Teaching Where I Was Taught: Coming Home - Mary Gordon
2. Game Plans - Mimi Schwartz
3. "Pregnant With [Myself], At Last":Images of Midlife/A Journal Entry - Jan ZlotnikSchmidt
4. :Saturating LAnguage With Love": Variations on a Dream - Marlene A. Schiwy
5. The Time of Our Lives: The Public Life of Teaching - Patricia E.Phillips
Part II Ripening Rootedness
6. Reverie - Jane Tompkins
7. Goodbye, Ms. Chips - JuliaAlvarez
8. But Tell Me, Do You Like Teaching? - Patricia Hampl
9. Me, Myself,Menopause, and I - DonnaLee Davis
10. Reflections on Teaching (And Life in General) Once You've Become a Grandmother - Jean BethkeElshtain
11. Mud Ponies - Diane Glancy
12. Unsettled Weather - Gail B. Griffin
Part III FeistyGirls
13. Academic Witchery: Snakes and Snails and Scholarly Tales - Dean Falk
14. Choice Points and Courage - Diane F. Halpern
15. I Can't Hear...I Can't See...I Can't Remember Anything - Lynne Taetzsch
16. Memories of a "First Woman" - Tikva Simone Frymer
17. Rant for Old Teachers - Paula Gunn Allen
Part IVTeaching in Time
18. A Teaching Life - Christa L.Walck
19. Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart - GaylePemberton
20. Ecstacy: Teaching and Learning Without Limits - bell hooks
21. Re-viewing our Professional Lives: Talking (And Listening) For a Living - MargaretMatlin
22. On Statutes and Dogs, Poems and "Regs," and Life Inside the Classroom - Judy Scales-Trent
23. Exploring Critical Feminist Pedagogy:Revelations and Confessions About Teaching at Midlife - Esther Ngan-lingChowPart V Community and Generativity
24. Themes that Link Through Time - Sue V. Rosser
25. Naming, Sharing, Speaking: Teaching in Midlife - Jean F.O'Barr
26. "Thinking Back Through [My] Mother": Reclaiming Anger, Advocacy, and Pleasure in Teaching - Judith A. Dorney
27. Charis=Light=Grace - Phyllis R.Freeman