Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Context and Commitment / Janet Emig, with Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Part I. Essays
1. Collaboration, Conversation, and the Politics of Gender / Evelyn Ashton-jones
2. Praising Folly: Constructing a Postmodem Rhetorical Authority as a Woman / Patricia Bizzell
3. Discourse and Diversity: Experimental Writing Within the Academy / Lillian Bridwell-Bowles
4. Women's Reclamation of Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century America / Robert J. Connors
5. The Role of Vietnamese Women in Literacy Processes: An Interview / Mary Kay Crouch, with Son Kim Vo
6. The Stories of Our Lives Become Our Lives: Journals, Diaries, and Academic Discourse / Cinthia Gannett
7. Writing a Life: The Composing of Grace / Myrna Harrienger
8. Intellectual Parenting and a Developmental Feminist Pedagogy of Writing / Janice Hays
9. Teaching Other People's Children / Emily Jessup and Marion Lardner
10. Composing the Multiple Self: Teen Mothers Rewrite Their Roles / Sara Dalmas Jonsberg, with Maria Salgado and the Women of The Next Step
11. Rockshelf Further Forming: Women, Writing, and Teaching the Young / Christine Holm Kline
12. Of Mice and Mothers: Mrs. Barbauld's "New Walk" and Gendered Codes in Children's Literature / Mitzi Myers
13. Becoming a Warrior: Lessons of the Feminist Workplace / Louise Wetherbee Phelps
14. Between the Drafts / Nancy Sommers
Part II. Reconfigurations and Responses
15. Issues and Discursive Practices / Janice M. Lauer
16. Mapping the Scene of Learning Through the Lens of Drama / Edward L. Rocklin
17. Writing into Unmapped Territory: The Practice of Lateral Citation / David Franke
18. In Search of Ways In / Jacqueline Jones Royster
19. Reality Check at the Crossroads / Mary Salibrici
20. Editors' Reflections: Vision and Interpretation / Louise Wetherbee Phelps, with Janet Emig
Notes on Contributors