Women among the professors of history : the story of a process of transformation / Gerda Lerner -- Three faces of Trevia : identity, activism, and intellect / Berenice A. Carroll -- Regionalism, feminism, and class : the development of a feminist historian / Hilda L. Smith -- On the importance of taking notes (and keeping them) / Linda K. Kerber -- The shaping of a feminist historian / Sandi E. Cooper -- Making and writing history together / Renate Bridenthal -- Going against the grain : the making of an independent scholar / Karen Offen -- Reassertion of patriarchy at the end of the twentieth century / Joan Hoff -- Bahupath Perie : the long trek / Nupur Chaudhuri -- Two catalysts in my life : voter registration drives and CCWHP / Mollie C. Davis -- Growing into history / Barbara Penny Kanner -- A graduate student's odyssey / Frances Richardson Keller -- "Drop by drop the bottle fills" / Margaret Strobel -- In circles comes change / Eileen Boris -- Domestic constraints : motherhood as life and subject / Lynn Y. Weiner -- Activism and the academy / Barbara Winslow -- The Emma thread : communitarian values, global visions / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Clio on the margins / Mary Elizabeth Perry -- Que sé yo : a historian in training / Nancy Raquel Mirabal -- A new generation of women historians / Crystal Feimster.