Acknowledgments  ix

Foreword / Ruth Behar  xiii

Self/Discipline: An Introduction / Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey  1

Language and Literature  

Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription / David Bleich  41

Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet / Carlos L. Dews  68

Three Readings of the Wife of Bath / Merrill Black  85

Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats's Plays / David Richman  96

Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor / Bonnie Tusmith  114

Following the Voice of the Draft / Donald M. Murray  129

Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing / Carla L. Peterson  138

History  

Tribute to Robert D. Marcus / David Bleich  159

Journey/man: Hi/s/tory / Robert D. Marcus  161

Religion  

From God of the Oppressed / James Cone  189

Philosophy  

Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss / Laura Duhan Kaplan  205

Maternal Thinking / Sara Ruddick  216

Africana Studies  

Altered States / Kwame Anthony Appiah  233

Art History  

History of an Encounter / Eunice Lipton  257

Music  

Devouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks / Peter Hamlin  265

Film  

When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre / Julie Tharp  281

Filming Point of View / Deborah Lefkowitz  292

Anthropology  

From The Broken Cord / Michael Dorris  311

Juban America / Ruth Behar  331

Close Encounters with a CSA: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist / Laura B. Delind  349

Law  

The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing) / Patricia J. Williams  365

English Education  

My Father/ My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status / Brenda Daly  375

Research Psychology  

Adventures of a Woman in Science / Naomi Weisstein  397

Biology  

Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist's Life in Biology / Muriel Lederman  417

Medicine  

That Disorder: An Introduction / Alice Wexler  435

A Textbook Pregnancy / Perri Klass  444

Math, Psychology, and Science Education  

Personal Thinking / Seymour Papert  455

Selected Bibliography  467

Contributors  483

Ruth Behar

Diane P. Freedman

Olivia Frey

Carlos L. Dews

Merrill Black

David Richman

Bonnie Tusmith

Donald M. Murray

Carla L. Peterson

David Bleich

Robert D. Marcus

James Cone

Laura Duhan Kaplan

Sara Ruddick

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Eunice Lipton

Peter Hamlin

Julie Tharp

Deborah Lefkowitz

Michael Dorris

Laura B. Delind

Patricia J. Williams

Brenda Daly

Naomi Weisstein

Muriel Lederman

Alice Wexler

Perri Klass

Seymour Papert

"[A]n exciting, important, and well-edited collection of essays. . . . The book is a pleasure to read; the selections are gracefully written and provide good models for how to incorporate autobiographical elements into scholarship. . . . I highly recommend Autobiographical Writing; it is an insightful and inspiring volume that belongs on the bookshelves of any scholar, student, or interested reader who has ever pondered the connection between the autobiographical and the academic, in other words, the connection between who we are and what we study."—Gesa E. Kirsch, NWSA Journal

"[A]n exciting, important, and well-edited collection of essays. . . . The book is a pleasure to read; the selections are gracefully written and provide good models for how to incorporate autobiographical elements into scholarship. . . . I highly recommend Autobiographical Writing; it is an insightful and inspiring volume that belongs on the bookshelves of any scholar, student, or interested reader who has ever pondered the connection between the autobiographical and the academic, in other words, the connection between who we are and what we study."—Gesa E. Kirsch, NWSA Journal

“This collection brings a new kind of scholarship into focus: research that has a human face and speaks with a human voice. In these essays, knowledge comes alive for the reader because it has sprung from the lived experience of the investigator. The contributors are pioneers in their fields, blazing trails for future work in their disciplines.”—Jane Tompkins, author of A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned

“This anthology of autobiographical writing by scholars with a range of ties to the academy, this mosaic of brave, graceful, and compassionate voices, skillfully edited by Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, bears testimony to the strength of an intellectual movement that is changing the way scholarship is being done. . . . [T]his book asserts the importance of a common project, a shared commitment to a way of knowing as well as a way of telling.”—Ruth Behar, from the foreword

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