Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Framing the stories / Norma T. Mertz
  • A first woman with clout / Edith A. Rusch and Barbara L. Jackson
  • Breaking through / Martha McCarthy
  • Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won : a fight for tenure / Carolyn J. Wood
  • Traversing the fault line / Ellen V. Bueschel about Nelda Cambron-McCabe
  • Where the boys were-- with apologies to Connie Francis / Norma T. Mertz
  • Goodness of fit / Diana G. Pounder
  • First ladies in the academy / Deborah A. Verstegen
  • From school administrator to university professor / Betty Malen
  • The "accidental" professor / Nona A. Prestine
  • Resistance and determination : faculty experiences of a women religious / Patricia A. Bauch
  • From the bush to the ivory tower / Mary Gardiner
  • One woman's struggle to include and be included / Carolyn M. Keeler
  • Being first : stories of social complexities / Paula Myrick Short
  • My life as a trophy / Edith A. Rusch
  • Making meaning of the stories / Norma T. Mertz.