The Family Silver |
PREFACE |
INTRODUCTION |
PART ONE PERSONAL SETTINGS |
One 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 |
Two Becoming A Lesbian |
From "Jenny's World" |
• | I |
• | II |
• | III |
Three The Family Silver |
• | My Aunt Jessie |
• | Curly Hair |
• | Women's Wealth |
Four The Passing Down Of Sorrow |
• | My Mother's Pain |
• | Inner Struggles |
• | Leaving My Mother's House |
• | Female Grief And Strength |
PART TWO ACADEMIC SETTINGS |
Five Hurts Of The System |
• | Inner Hurts, Outer World |
Six 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 |
PART THREE FEMINIST TEACHING |
Eight 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 |
Nine Separatism |
• | Mixed Company: The Army |
• | Separatism As Strategy |
• | Feminist And Women's Processes |
• | Reaching For Separatism |
• | Students On Separatism |
Ten Desires For An Ideal Community Of Women |
• | Homophobia In The Classroom |
• | Desires For An Ideal Class |
• | Looking Back |