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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
PERSONAL NARRATIVES , 1. Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander -- Reflections on Being an out Black Lesbian on a Southern Campus, 2. Christine Cress -- In, Out, or Somewhere-In-Between, 3. Mildred Dickemann -- Coming Out and Coming In: A Kind of Homecoming, 4. Penelope Dugan -- The Silent Partner Finds Her Voice, 5. Michele J. Eliason -- Out in the Heartland: Lesbians, Academics, and Iowa, 6. Kathryn M. Feltery -- Living Outside the Center, 7. Maggie Fournier -- Out in the Maine Woods, 8. Nanette K. Gartrell -- Out in Academic Psychiatry, 9. Barbara W. Gerber -- Becoming a Lesbian in Academia, 10. Charlotte L. Goedshce -- Out on a Small Southern Campus, 11. Nancy Goldstein -- The Making of a Lesbian Academic, 1974-1995, 12. Batya Hyman -- Is Out Now In? A Letter to a First-Year Lesbian Professor, 13. Sherrie A. Inness -- Double Vision: Lesbian Twins in Academia, 14. Carey Kaplan -- Way Out at Saint Michael's College, 15. Sandra M. Ketrow -- Is it Homophobia, Heterosexism, Sexism, or Can I Pass? , 16. Kathryn H. Larson -- Creating My Own Security, 17. Jan McDonald -- Being Out in Academia: A Year of My Life in Enid, America, 18. Carol J. Meoller -- Transforming The Master's Tools: Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Graduate School, 19. Akilah Monifa -- Of African Descent: A Three-fers Story, 20. Sue Morrow -- This Is the Place, 21. Sally O'Driscoll -- Skirmishes in the Borderlands of Identity: Lesbians in Women's Studies, 22. Christy M. Ponticelli -- Stray Sheep or Shepherd? Out in the Florida Classroom, 23. Patty Reagan -- Lesbians in Utah: Behind the Zion Curtain, 24. Amy L. Reynolds and Raechele L. Pope -- Beyond Silence: Life as Academics and a Lesbian Couple, 25. Jennifer Rycnega -- The Perils and Pleasures of Being an Out Lesbian Academic: or Speech from the Scaffold, 26. Bonnie R. Strickland -- Reading, Writing, and Talking to People, 27. Lynn A. Walkiewicz -- Subversive Education, 28. Stacy Wolf -- Consenting to Relations: The Personal Pleasure of Power Disparity , 29. Anonymous -- My, How Times Have Changed . . . Or Have They?: A Quarter Century as a Lesbian Academic, THE LESBIAN EXPERIENCE: AN ANALYSIS,30. Penelope Dugan -- Degrees of Freedom, 31. Mary Frances Stuck -- The Lesbian Experience: An Analysis, RACE, CLASS, AGE: THE QUESTION OF IDENTITY POLITICS, 32. Michelle Tokarczyk and Suzanne Sowinska -- Lesbians, Class, and Academia, 33. Maria C. Gonzalez -- Women of Color, Sexuality, and the Academy: A Few Thoughts, 34. Roxanne Lin -- Steppin' Into and Out of Academia, 35. Phyllis Bronstein -- Older Women in Academia,LESBIAN STUDIES, QUEER STUDIES: THEORIZING THE LESBIAN EXPERIENCE, 36. Lynda Goldstein -- Queer Theory: The Monster That is Destroying Lesbianville , 37. Sheila Jeffreys -- The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians,
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of Vermont. Esther D. Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont.
Summary
This collection of narratives reflects the lesbian experience in academic life. Aspects such as length of time being out, geographic distribution, type of academic setting and age are assessed and then compared with experiences of nonlesbian women
