Description: Wise Women is a collection of autobiographical essays by important and renowned teachers in mid-life. The essays, which are deeply personal, will focus on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical, and social changes brought on by menopause and how the aging process affects their lifes as professionals, feminists, writers, mentors, and instructors in the academy. The book addresses such questions as: What challenges are left for the feminists who came of age during the women's movement and now have achieved academic success? How do women teachers experience their aging selves in the classroom? and What legacy will mid-life women leave their younger women colleagues? All of these questions, as well as many others, are covered in this insightful and grounbreaking work.

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