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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