What a piece of work is "woman"! / Margo Culley -- "Come and hear" / Kathleen M. Swaim -- Self and God in the early published memoirs of New England women / Ann Taves -- Resisting the gaze of embodiment / Sidonie Smith -- Political is the personal / Ann D. Gordon -- Utopia and anti-utopia in twentieth-century women's frontier autobiographies / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Gertrude Stein and the lesbian lie / Catherine R. Stimpson -- Orphanhood and "photo"-portraiture in Mary McCarthy's "Memories of a Catholic girlhood" / Janis Greve -- Dorothy Day and women's spiritual autobiography / Mary G. Mason -- Choosing sides, choosing lives / Arlyn Diamond -- "No laughing matter" / Nancy Walker -- Tradition of Chinese American women's life stories / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Indian women's personal narrative / Kathleen Mullen Sands -- Listening to the secret mother / C. Margot Hennessy.