Contents

• Introduction: Context and Commitment / Janet Emig and Louise Wetherbee Phelps
• 1. Collaboration, Conversation, and the Politics of Gender / Evelyn Ashton-Jones
• 2. Praising Folly: Constructing a Postmodern 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 and 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 and Maria Salgado / 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
• 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 and Janet Emig