The Center of the web : women and solitude

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The Center of the web : women and solitude

edited by Delese Wear

State University of New York Press, c1993

  • cloth
  • pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Center of the Web examines the complexities of how solitude is perceived by women. Each contributor describes how solitude is a dimension of her personal and public life: how she defines it, if and how she seeks it, where she finds it, and how it influences her life. The voices in the book come from varied vantage points, illuminating women's perspectives of solitude with regard to class, culture, race, and sexual identity. Some essays are grounded in philosophy, literature, or psychology, others are autobiographical, and some confront the seeming dichotomy of solitude on one hand, and care, connection, and responsibility on the other. With the contemporary focus on women's experiences grounded in context and connection to others, this book presents a perspective often overlooked or unexamined.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction PART I. SOLITUDE AND IDENTITY 1. A Reconnection to Self: Women and Solitude Delese Wear 2. Solitude, Suffering, and Personal Authority Lynne McFall 3. Reclaiming the Safety of Solitude: Being With, Not Hiding From Mara Sapon-Shevin 4. Time Alone, Place Apart: The Role of Spiracy in Using the Power of Solitude Jacqueline Jones Royster 5. Who Am I When I'm Alone with Myself? Jo Anne Pagano 6. Claiming the Tenured Body Elizabeth Ellsworth 7. When We're Together, I Feel So Alone: Solitude in the Midst of a Crowd Beth Rushing 8. Borders of Solitude Tuija Pulkkinen PART II. SOLITUDE AND CULTURE 9. A Unicorn's Memoirs: Solitude and the Life of Teaching and Learning Kal Alston 10. One-Way Mirrors, Alchemy, and Plentitude Glorianne M. Leck 11. Inner Life, Outer World: Women and Solitude in India Darshan Perusek 12. The Solitary Reader Revisited: Dialogues on a Working-Class Girlhood Elyse Eidman-Aadahl 13. Speaking in Tongues: An African-American Woman in the World and the Academy Beverly M. Gordon 14. Women, Single Life, and Solitude: A Plea to Rethink Curriculum Susan Laird PART III. SOLITUDE AND WORK 15. Private Spaces: The Political Economy of Women's Solitude Magda Lewis 16. Opening the Closed Door Ellen Michaelson 17. Solitude and Irony: A Private Vision and Public Position Elaine Atkins 18. Solitary Spaces: Women, Teaching, and Curriculum Janet L. Miller 19. Writing Autobiographically in Solitude about Teaching: Why To
  • How To Ann Berlak 20. A Time and Place of One's Own: Women's Struggles for Solitude Linda K. Christian-Smith Contributing Authors Index

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