Introduction
1. Looking At History
Part1: Decades
2. Decades 3. History/My History
4. Imaginary Gardens with Real Frogs in Them: Feminist Euphora and the Franco-American Divide, 1976-88 5. Radical Optimism, Maternal Materialism and Teaching Literature
Part2: Reading/Writing Against the Grain
6. Reader, I Married Me: A Polygynous Memoir
7. In Academia, and Out: The Experience of a Lesbian Feminist Literary Critic
8. "Except Thou Ravish Me": Penetrations into the Life of the (Feminine) Mind Molly Hite
9. The Long Goodbye: Against the Personal Testimony or, an Infant Grifter Grows Up
10. Feminism, the Roaring Girls and Me
Part3: Legacies
11. Mother
12. Getting Gendered
13. Loss and Recovery: Homes Away from Home
14. Being the Subject and the Object: Reading African-American Women’s Novels
15. Generational Differences: Reliving Mother-Daughter Conflicts
Part4: Connections and Contradictions
16. Stormy Weather: A Memoir of the Second Wave
17. On Having a Personal Voice
18. Asians in Anglo-American Feminism: Reciprocity and Resistance
19. Growing Up Theoretical: Across the Divide. Afterword