Contemporary American women: our defining passages

Coming to terms with my body after a hysterectomy / Colleen S. Harris

I couldn't walk, talk, or read : becoming a crow again / Katie McKy

Jumping in tandem / Carolyn Davis

A member of the wedding / Amy Saxon Bosworth

The perfect fit / Cathryn Cofell

Running away towards / Cecile Ann Lawrence

Starting over at sixty-seven / Ruth Thone

Anger in the house : writing, reading, and mothering / Nicole Willey

Behavior therapy and other blessings of childbirth / Eileen M. Washburn

How adopting ex-racer greyhounds changed my life / Amy Arnold

Next in line / Hope Payson

Recovery from alcoholism / Ruth Thone

Woman on the verge / Cathryn Cofell

Weighing on my mind : perception as passage / Vicky Gilpin

Women writing for (a) change : mirror, model, mentor / Sarah Bartlett

Between Mozart and Mendelssohn / Rosemary Dunn Moeller

Earth mother merit badge / Rosemary Dunn Moeller

From secrecy to sisterhood : fashioning peace from a fractured past / Kim Becnel

Looking for the gold / Coleen Meyers Martin

The scent of life / Martha Engber

Returning to Russia, returning home / Yelizaveta P. Renfro

Rites of passage / Faye E. Robinson

Sisters saving sisters / Anna Rae Nixon

Breathing patterns / Jenny Sadre-Orafai

The children of Athena / Cassie Premio Steele

Getting in : reflections on college acceptance / Julie R. Enszer

The needle in the haystack / Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow

A pleasant irony / Michelle Glorioso

The weight of alone / Jenny Sadre-Orafai

What we celebrate / Julie R. Enszer

Widowhood : one woman's experience / Aline Soules

A blue collar journey to the ivory tower : reflections / Jodie M. Lawston

A nerd and her superpowers, or, How I came to be a librarian / Colleen S. Harris

Closer to the light / Hope Payson

Introducing the "I do a little bit of both" mom / Eileen M. Washburn

Jumping off trains / Jeannée Sacken

My gift of now / Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow

The Rotary Club / Margaret Kramar

Connecting the personal with the political : a journey into feminist activism / Jodie M. Lawston

From victim to survivor : one woman's journey / Marcy Simons

How did I get roped into this? / Sonya S. Fehér

Making it real / Kristen Remenar

Setting healthy boundaries : my hair and my body / Elizabeth Johnson

The power of persistence / Faye E. Robinson

Through the doorway and beginning again / Katie McKy

Unexpected kindness / Mara Houdyshell

An ah-ha moment : struggling with God / Vicky Gilpin

Dragonflies singing / Cassie Premo Steele

How I learned to embrace my Southern roots / Angela Batchelor

How many children do you have? / Sarah Bartlett

Reconnection / Deborah Kent

The reunion / Margaret Kramar

Taking me back : finding healthy relationships after sexual assault / Ona Marae.