The Family Silver
  PREFACE

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART ONE PERSONAL SETTINGS
 collapse sectionOne  Gender Roles Among Women
 •Discomforts With Gender Ambiguity
 •On Being Mistaken For A Man
 •The Clothes Of My Gender
 •The Hurt Of Being Called A Man
 •Responses To Femme And Butch Styles In Women
 •Lesbian In A Heterosexual World
 •Conclusions
 collapse sectionTwo  Becoming A Lesbian
 collapse sectionFrom "Jenny's World"
 •I
 •II
 •III
 collapse sectionThree  The Family Silver
 •My Aunt Jessie
 •Curly Hair
 •Women's Wealth
 collapse sectionFour  The Passing Down Of Sorrow
 •My Mother's Pain
 •Inner Struggles
 •Leaving My Mother's House
 •Female Grief And Strength

 collapse sectionPART TWO ACADEMIC SETTINGS
 collapse sectionFive  Hurts Of The System
 •Inner Hurts, Outer World
 collapse sectionSix  Saying No To A Man
 •The Faculty Meeting
 •The Pain Of Saying No
 •The Faculty Meeting Continues
 •Conversations With The Chair
 •Class Dynamics
 •Vulnerability
 •Seven  Lesbian In Academe

 collapse sectionPART THREE FEMINIST TEACHING
 collapse sectionEight  A Feminist Class
 •The Stream Of Ideas And Experience:  Women's Boundaries, Women's Groups, Women's Speech
 •Women In Formal Organizations
 •Women's Work
 collapse sectionNine  Separatism
 •Mixed Company: The Army
 •Separatism As Strategy
 •Feminist And Women's Processes
 •Reaching For Separatism
 •Students On Separatism
 collapse sectionTen  Desires For An Ideal Community  Of Women
 •Homophobia In The Classroom
 •Desires For An Ideal Class
 •Looking Back

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