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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
I | Generations: Essays on the Family | |
On Going Home | 3 | |
Brothers and Sisters | 6 | |
Only Daughter | 10 | |
Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It) | 14 | |
Mother Tongue | 32 | |
My Father's Penis | 38 | |
Balancing Act | 43 | |
The Deterioration of My Marriage | 46 | |
Here: Grace | 53 | |
Thoughts on Becoming a Grandmother | 65 | |
II | Inside Passages: Essays on Self-Identity | |
Names | 85 | |
Hair | 93 | |
A Friendship Forged on Concrete | 100 | |
An American in New York | 103 | |
Dreams of a Black Christmas | 113 | |
A Knowing So Deep | 122 | |
La Guera | 125 | |
Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity | 134 | |
Writing from the Darkness | 152 | |
Monday, May 3rd, 1982 | 160 | |
III | Breaking the Silence: Women Confront Oppression and Violence | |
Speak for Yourself | 167 | |
On Being the Object of Property | 171 | |
A Beaut of a Shiner | 181 | |
Give and Take | 184 | |
Death of Popeye | 188 | |
A Rape | 191 | |
Amazing Rage | 199 | |
IV | Women's Bodies, Women's Choices | |
On Having a Baby | 205 | |
Trying (and Trying and Trying) to Get Pregnant | 218 | |
Sperm in a Jar | 225 | |
I Just Came Out Pregnant | 231 | |
A Moral Choice | 241 | |
Consequences | 251 | |
Standard Operating Procedure | 255 | |
V | What the Lover Knows: Essays on Nature | |
Sight into Insight | 265 | |
Waking | 278 | |
Waking Up the Rake | 281 | |
The Bowl | 286 | |
A Woman's Dance | 289 | |
A Very Warm Mountain | 291 | |
Contributors | 299 | |
Credits | 307 |
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