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Teaching where I was taught : coming home / Mary Gordon -- Game plans / Mimi Schwartz -- "Pregnant with [myself], at last" : images of midlife/a journal entry / Jan Zlotnik Schmidt -- "Saturating language with love" : variations on a dream / Marlene A. Schiwy -- Time of our lives : the public life of teaching / Patricia C. Phillips -- Reverie / Jane Tompkins -- Goodbye, Ms. Chips / Julia Alvarez -- But tell me, do you like teaching? / Patricia Hampl -- Me, myself, menopause, and I / Dona Lee Davis -- Reflections on teaching (and life in general) once you've become a grandmother / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Mud ponies / Diane Glancy -- Unsettled weather / Gail B. Griffin -- Academic witchery : snakes and snails and scholarly tales / Dean Falk -- Choice points and courage / Diane F. Halpern -- I can't hear...I can't see...I can't remember anything / Lynne Taetzsch -- Memories of a "first woman" / Tikva Simone Frymer -- Rant for old teachers / Paula Gunn Allen -- Teaching life / Christa L. Walck -- Too soon too old, too late smart / Gayle Pemberton -- Ecstasy : teaching and learning without limits / bell hooks -- Re-viewing our professional lives : talking (and listening) for a living / Margaret Matlin -- On statutes and dogs, poems and "regs", and life inside the classroom / Judy Scales-Trent -- Exploring critical feminist pedagogy : revelations and confessions about teaching at midlife / Esther Ngan-ling Chow -- Themes that link through time / Sue V. Rosser -- Naming, sharing, speaking : teaching in midlife / Jean F. O'Barr -- "Thinking back through [my] mother" : reclaiming anger, advocacy, and pleasure in teaching / Judith A. Dorney -- Charis=light=grace / Phyllis R. Freeman. |
