Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at MidlifeWise 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. |
Contents
BODY TIME | 9 |
GAME PLANS | 17 |
VARIATIONS | 27 |
THE PUBLIC LIFE OF TEACHING | 37 |
RIPENING ROOTEDNESS | 45 |
BUT TELL ME DO YOU LIKE TEACHING? | 61 |
ME MYSELF Menopause aND I | 69 |
IO REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING AND LIFE IN GENERAL ONCE | 81 |
TEACHING IN TIME | 155 |
Too SOON OLD Too Late SMART | 167 |
TEACHING AND LEARNING WITHOUT LIMITS | 173 |
TALKING AND | 179 |
ON STATUTES and Dogs POEMS AND Regs and Life Inside | 191 |
REVELATIONS | 197 |
PART V | 211 |
TEACHING IN MIDLIFE | 221 |
MUD PONIES | 87 |
UNSETTLED WEATHER | 95 |
FEISTY GIRLS | 107 |
CHOICE POINTS AND COURAGE | 117 |
ANYTHING | 125 |
MEMORIES OF A FIRST WOMAN | 135 |
RANT FOR OLD TEACHERS | 147 |
RECLAIMING Anger | 231 |
CHARIS LIGHT GRACE | 241 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 251 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 263 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 273 |
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Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Midlife Phyllis R. Freeman,Jan Zlotnik Schmidt No preview available - 2000 |