
True Confessions
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Twenty-seven pioneering thinkers share their discovery of and commitment to feminism in this essential collection.
In a series of autobiographical reflections, the contributors to True Confessions, including Gayatri Spivak, Sandra M. Gilbert, Hortense Spillers, and Martha Nussbaum, among others, tell us what experiences ground their activism and how they confronted the dilemmas they faced in the course of their training and careers. Why do a family's religious practices captivate or repel girls grappling with their parents' faith? What happens when a lesbian graduate student assumes she must be closeted, or when a female professor encounters hostility from other women on the faculty, or when a feminist professor is accused of sexually harassing her graduate students?Susan Gubar has selected the most influential thinkers in the humanities to elucidate the origins as well as the consequences of their commitment to feminism and its institutionalization in higher education. This is an indispensable book for anyone who cares about the place of feminism in today's landscape.
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- Intro
- Also By
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Personal Views
- My Father's Penis
- A Reasonable Facsimile
- Answering for the Consequences
- The Historian, Her Mother, and Her Dead Women: Past, Present, and Places In Between
- Fleeing and Pioneering Women: Matrophobia and My (Asian American) Feminist Praxis
- Labial Politics
- The Piano Lesson
- In My Family, We Spoke in Tongues
- Confessions of a Culinary Transvestite
- Islam in the Family
- Foremothers
- Lost (and Found?) in Translation
- Unreconciled Lives
- Feminism, Black and Blue
- Part Two: Professional Vistas
- "Don't Smile So Much": Philosophy and Women in the 1970s
- Crashing the Top: Women at Elite Universities
- Hiding
- Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment
- I Dreamed Again That I Was Drowning, with a Postscript
- "Anyway, We Certainly Don't Want to Be Lumped In with Black Studies!"
- Quarrels into Ploughshares: Feminism and Race
- What I Have Learned as a Chicana Professor, or, "En Bocas Cerradas no Entran Moscas"
- The Psychoanalyst, the Sociologist, and the Feminist: A Retrospect
- Critical Connections in Religion: An Intellectual Autobiography
- Not Too Far from Brooklyn: Growing Up, Growing Old with Art
- The Making of a Feminist Musicologist
- "I Will Survive": Changing Trends in Feminism and Performance
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
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