Author: Mintz, Beth & Rothblum, Esther; editors:
Title: Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom.
Description: New York / London, Routledge, (1997). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xi, 298 pp. Small label to rear cover, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contains 37 papers. Includes: D.D. Bennett-Alexander "Reflections on Being an Out Black Lesbian on a Southern Campus"; C. Cress "In, Out, or Some- where-In-Between"; M. Dickemann "Coming Out & Coming In: A Kind of Homecoming"; P. Dugan "The Silent Partner Finds Her Voice"; M.J. Eliason " Out in the Heartland: Lesbians, Academics, & Iowa"; K.M. Feltey "Living Outside the Center"; M. Fournier "Out in the Maine Woods"; N.K. Gartrell " Out in Academic Psychiatry"; B.W. Gerber "Becoming a Lesbian in Academia"; C.L. Goedsche "Out on a Small Southern Campus"; N. Goldstein "The Making of a Lesbian Academic, 1974-1995"; B. Hyman "Is 'Out' Now 'In'? A Letter to a First-Year Lesbian Professor"; S.A. Inness & J.C. Inness "Double Vision: Lesbian Twins in Academia"; C. Kaplan "Way Out at Saint Michael's College"; S.M. Ketrow "Is it Homophobia, Heterosexism, Sexism, or Can I Pass?"; K.H. Larson "Creating My Own Security"; J. McDonald "Being Out in Academia: A Year of My Life in Enid, America"; C.J. Moeller "'Transforming the Master's Tools': Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Graduate School"; A. Monifa "Of African Descent: A Three-fers Story"; S. Morrow "This Is the Place"; S. O'Driscoll "Skirmishes in The Borderlands of Identity: Lesbian in Women's Studies"; C.M. Ponticelli "Stray Sheep or Shepherd? 'Out' in the Florida Classroom"; P. Reagan "Lesbians in Utah: Behind the Zion Curtain"; A.M. Reynolds & R.L. Pope "Beyond Silence: Life as Academics & a Lesbian Couple"; J. Rycenga "The Perils & Pleasures of Being an Out Lesbian Academic".

Keywords: Sociology of Education, Lesbian Lesbians, Homosexuality, Lesbianism Gender, Feminist Theory, Academics Academic, Homosexuals, Professors Students, University Students