Wise women : reflections of teachers at midlife

Wise Women is a collection of autobiographical essays by important and renowned teachers at mid-life. The essays, which are deeply personal, will focus on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical, and social changes brought on by menopause and how the aging process affects their lives as professionals, feminists, writers, mentors, and instructors in the academy. The book addresses such questions as the following: What challenges are left for the feminists who came of age during the women's movement and now have achieved academic success? How do women teachers experience their aging selves in the classroom? What legacy will mid-life women leave their younger women colleagues? All of these questions, as well as many others, are covered in this insightful and groundbreaking work.

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Rarely has an anthology chronicled the joys and miseries of the professorate with such clarity and transparency as this book on female professors at midlife. Freeman and Schmidt have assembled a widely varied group of professors from many regions of the country in order to reach a large group of college professors. What makes this book so successful is its editorial bluntness combined with a wonderful flow of stories and characters. It reads like personal diaries of professionals who cannot (and will not) separate their professional and personal lives. And--the other success of this book--the writers seamlessly web their stories so that readers have a complete understanding of the writers' "dual" lives. Recommended for every college professor and aspiring future professors. L. B. Gallien; Spelman College

Mary GordonMimi SchwartzJan Zlotnik SchmidtMarlene A. SchiwyPatricia C. PhillipsJane TompkinsJulia AlvarezPatricia HamplDona Lee DavisJean Bethke ElshtainDiane GlancyGail B. GriffinDean FalkDiane F. HalpernLynne TaetzschTikva Simone FrymerPaula Gunn AllenChrista L. WalckGayle Pembertonbell hooksMargaret MatlinJudy Scales-TrentEsther Ngan-ling ChowSue V. RosserJean F. O'BarrJudith A. DorneyPhyllis R. Freeman

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Part I Body and Time
1. Teaching Where I Was Taught: Coming Home	p. 11
2. Game Plans	p. 17
3. "Pregnant with [Myself], at Last": Images of Midlife/A Journal Entry	p. 23
4. "Saturating Language with Love": Variations on a Dream	p. 27
5. The Time of Our Lives: The Public Life of Teaching	p. 37
Part II Ripening and Rootedness
6. Reverie	p. 47
7. Goodbye, Ms. Chips	p. 49
8. But Tell Me, Do You Like Teaching?	p. 61
9. Me, Myself, Menopause, and I	p. 69
10. Reflections on Teaching (and Life in General) Once You've Become a Grandmother	p. 81
11. Mud Ponies	p. 87
12. Unsettled Weather	p. 95
Part III Feisty and Girls
13. Academic Witchery: Snakes and Snails and Scholarly Tales	p. 109
14. Choice Points and Courage	p. 117
15. I Can't Hear ... I Can't See ... I Can't Remember Anything	p. 125
16. Memories of a "First Woman"	p. 135
17. Rant for Old Teachers	p. 147
Part IV Teaching in Time
18. A Teaching Life	p. 157
19. Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart	p. 167
20. Ecstasy: Teaching and Learning without Limits	p. 173
21. Re-viewing Our Professional Lives: Talking (and Listening) for a Living	p. 179
22. On Statutes and Dogs, Poems and "Regs," and Life inside the Classroom	p. 191
23. Exploring Critical Feminist Pedagogy: Revelations and Confessions about Teaching at Midlife	p. 197
Part V Community and Generativity
24. Themes That Link through Time	p. 213
25. Naming, Sharing, Speaking: Teaching in Midlife	p. 221
26. "Thinking Back through [My] Mother": Reclaiming Anger, Advocacy, and Pleasure in Teaching	p. 231
27. Charis = Light = Grace	p. 241
Notes and References	p. 245
Selected Bibliography	p. 251
Contributors	p. 263
Acknowledgments	p. 273

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