Lesbians in academia : degrees of freedom / edited by Beth Mintz and Esther Rothblum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflections on Being an out Black Lesbian on a Southern Campus / Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander -- In, Out, or Somewhere-In-Between / Christine Cress -- Coming Out and Coming In: A Kind of Homecoming / Mildred Dickemann -- The Silent Partner Finds Her Voice / Penelope Dugan -- Out in the Heartland: Lesbians, Academics, and Iowa / Michele J. Eliason -- Living Outside the Center / Kathryn M. Feltey -- Out in the Maine Woods / Maggie Fournier -- Out in Academic Psychiatry / Nanette K. Gartrell -- Becoming a Lesbian in Academia / Barbara W. Gerber -- Out on a Small Southern Campus / Charlotte L. Goedsche -- The Making of a Lesbian Academic, 1974-1995 / Nancy Goldstein -- Is "Out" Now "In"? A Letter to a First-Year Lesbian Professor / Batya Hyman -- Double Vision: Lesbian Twins in Academia / Sherrie A. Inness and Julie C. Inness -- Way Out at Saint Michael's College / Carey Kaplan -- Is it Homophobia, Heterosexism, Sexism, or Can I Pass? / Sandra M. Ketrow -- Creating My Own Security / Kathryn H. Larson -- Being Out in Academia: A Year of My Life in Enid, America / Jan McDonald -- Transforming "The Master's Tools": Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Graduate School / Carol J. Moeller -- Of African Descent: A Three-fers Story / Akilah Monifa -- This Is the Place / Sue Morrow -- Skirmishes in the Borderlands of Identity: Lesbians in Women's Studies / Sally O'Driscoll -- Stray Sheep or Shepherd? "Out" in the Florida Classroom / Christy M. Ponticelli -- Lesbians in Utah: Behind the Zion Curtain / Patty Reagan -- Beyond Silence: Life as Academics and a Lesbian Couple / Amy L. Reynolds and Raechele L. Pope -- The Perils and Pleasures of Being an Out Lesbian Academic; or Speech from the Scaffold / Jennifer Rycenga -- Reading, Writing, and Talking to People / Bonnie R. Strickland -- Subversive Education / Lynn A. Walkiewicz -- Consenting to Relations: The Personal Pleasures of "Power Disparity" in Lesbian Student-Teacher Partnerships / Stacy Wolf and Jill Dolan -- My, How Times Have Changed ... Or Have They?: A Quarter Century as a Lesbian Academic / Anonymous -- Degrees of Freedom / Penelope Dugan -- The Lesbian Experience: An Analysis / Mary Frances Stuck -- Lesbians, Class, and Academia: Some Thoughts about Class-Based Identity and Difference / Michelle Tokarczyk and Suzanne Sowinska -- Women of Color, Sexuality, and the Academy: A Few Thoughts / Maria C. Gonzalez -- Steppin' Into and Out of Academia / Roxanne Lin -- Older Women in Academia / Phyllis Bronstein -- Queer Theory: The Monster That is Destroying Lesbianville / Lynda Goldstein -- The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians / Sheila Jeffreys.