Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. The Work/Love Paradigm. "Tangled together like a badly cast fishing line": the reader and the text in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale horse, pale rider" / Ann L. Putnam
  • Love, work, and Willa Cather / Ann Fisher-Wirth
  • The voices from the Little house / Ann Romines
  • Rewriting the love plot our way: women and work / Susan J. Rosowski. II. The Text as Mirror. Nancy Drew, the perfect solution / Carol S. Chadwick
  • Wrestling with the mother and the father: "his" and "her" in Adrienne Rich / Betty S. Flowers
  • In search of the androgynous self / Nancy Owen Nelson
  • From robot to roarer / Jo C. Searles
  • A white bird flying straight down / Catherine E. Lamb
  • Being an I-witness: my life as a lesbian teacher / Barbara DiBernard
  • Mother/daughter dialog(ic)s in, around and about Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Bonnie Braendlin
  • Offshore women: a personal log / Nancy Pagh
  • Metamorphosis: mutations of a Hungarian continental drifter into an American woman / Olga Klekner
  • Trapped, the release, by a Gift from the sea / Lois Hassan
  • Speaking across boundries and sharing the loss of a child / Melody Graulich
  • Trailing west / Susan Naramore Maher
  • Dakota: a spiritual geography, revisited / Michele Potter
  • III. Teaching and Writing the Self. Growing up with Doctor Spock: an auto-biography / Lynn Z. Bloom
  • From impersonators to persons: breaking patterns, finding voices / Charlotte S. McClure
  • Search and rescue / Beverly Conner
  • Diversity and the American dream / Grace Stewart
  • Women's literature as individuation for college students / Julie Houston
  • Finding my voice: caught between a Woolf and a Crane / Sandra Parker
  • Literary criticism with a human face: Virginia Woolfe and the Common reader / Elsie F. Mayer.