Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD: M. ANN BRADY
INTRODUCTION: ELIZABETH A. FLYNN AND TIFFANY BOURELLE
CHOICE, CHANCE, SERENDIPITY, KAIROS, AND RESILIENCE
CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION
CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES IN OTHER FIELDS
CHOICE, CHANCE, AND SERENDIPITY: AN OVERVIEW OF COLLECTION ESSAYS
SOME CLOSING THOUGHTS
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CHAPTER 1: How to Get a Nonacademic Position: An Essay on Serendipity—Personal, Professional, and Intellectual: LISA EDE
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CHAPTER 2: Becoming a Feminist Teacher, Researcher, and Administrator: ELIZABETH A. FLYNN
MOVING AWAY
LEARNING TO BECOME AN ACADEMIC
PURSUING FEMINISM
SHIFTING DIRECTIONS
BECOMING A FEMINIST PROFESSIONAL
BECOMING A MOTHER AND THEN A WIDOW
CONTINUING AS A FEMINIST SCHOLAR AND PROFESSIONAL
FINAL REFLECTIONS
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CHAPTER 3: My Kairotic Career: ANNE RUGGLES GERE
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THE PLAN
SERENDIPITY, A DEFINITION HAPPY AND EXPANSIVE
RESEARCH AREAS AND SERENDIPITOUS BOOKS
WRITING DOCTOR SPOCK, BIOGRAPHY OF A CONSERVATIVE RADICAL, RESEARCH SERENDIPITY
FORBIDDEN DIARY, EDITING THE MOTHER LODE
THE SERENDIPITY OF A FIRST JOB
THE SERENDIPITY OF QUITTING—AND OF A NEW BEGINNING
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CHAPTER 5: Composing a Poetic Life: LIBBY FALK JONES
BECOMING A POET, TAKE ONE: A CONTINUOUS STORY
BECOMING A POET, TAKE TWO: A DISCONTINUOUS STORY
BECOMING A POET, TAKE THREE: A RADICALLY DISCONTINUOUS STORY OF WAY CLOSING
WAY OPENING: THE ROLE OF FEMINIST RHETORICAL RESILIENCE
Changing My Thinking
Enacting a New Identity
Building Networks of Mutual Support
CONCLUSION: UNDERLYING CONTINUITIES AND COMMUNITIES
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CHAPTER 6: Choreography: Running Away, Moving Toward, Living In: SUELLYNN DUFFEY
MY FAMILY’S INFLUENCE
RUNNING AWAY
MOVING TOWARD
LIVING IN
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CHAPTER 7: Embracing Scrappiness: Troublesome Knowledge and Serendipity: LINDA ADLER-KASSNER
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CHAPTER 8: Word by Word, Bead by Bead: Making a Scholarly Life: MALEA POWELL
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CHAPTER 9: When Depression and Resilience Collide: Might as Well Get Up: JACQUELINE RHODES
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CHAPTER 10: The Camino: A Pilgrim’s Journey of Choice: BETH L. HEWETT
A FORMIDABLE QUEST
A WALKABOUT INTO WRITING INSTRUCTION
TREKKING INTO THE UNKNOWN
TOURING SCHOOL—AGAIN
A JAUNT INTO NINETEENTH-CENTURY RHETORIC
AN EXCURSION INTO COLLABORATION
SEEKING A ROAD TO COMMUNITY
THIS WAY TO ONLINE WRITING INSTRUCTION
A FORK IN THE ROAD
FINDING A HIGHWAY THROUGH GRIEF
WALKING THE CAMINO
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CHAPTER 11: Southern Girl Seeks Wide-Open Spaces: My Journey through Academia: TIFFANY BOURELLE
MY BLOOD RUNNETH ORANGE
GETTING MY KICKS ON ROUTE 66
THE BIGGEST LITTLE DECISION
BIG SKY COUNTRY = BIG SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
FROM EXTREME COLD TO EXTREME HEAT
MAKING A LEFT TURN AT ALBUQUERQUE
ROADS? WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED ROADS
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WHY ALLA TURCA?
BUILDING ON KISMET
WHEN SERENDIPITY AND RESILIENCE INTERSECT
TOWARD ETHNOGRAPHY AND FEMINIST RHETORICAL SCHOLARSHIP
THE VIEW FROM THE DOLMUȘ
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CHAPTER 13: My Life in Composition Studies: Serendipity, Shame, Status Anxiety, and Trusting My Instincts: IRENE PAPOULIS
HOW I GOT INTO COMPOSITION STUDIES
EXTERNAL REALITY #1: BEING A LECTURER
EXTERNAL REALITY #3: EXPRESSIVISM
A LONG LULL IN MY CAREER
TRINITY AND STATUS ANXIETY: HARTFORD, CT, 1996–THE PRESENT
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CHAPTER 14: Empowerment through Change and Resilience: A Technical Communicator’s Tale: NATASHA N. JONES
TRANSFORMATION 1: THE WONDER YEARS
TRANSFORMATION 2: BABY MAKES TWO
TRANSFORMATION 3: IF YOU CAN’T BE ONE, RESEARCH ONE
TRANSFORMATION 4: COMMITMENT TO EMPOWERMENT
TRANSFORMATION 5: TEXTS, INTERFACES, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
CONCLUSION: MY STORY IN BLACK AND WHITE
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CHAPTER 15: What I Learned about Teaching, Administration, and Scholarship from Singing with the Scottsdale Chorus: SHIRLEY ROSE
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