"What's a nice working-class girl like you doing in a place like this?" / Saundra Gardner -- Who am I now? : the politics of class identity / Donna Langston -- Writing and teaching with class / Valerie Miner -- A question of belonging / Joanna Kadi -- Keeping close to home : class and education / bell hooks -- A Mennonite "hard worker" moves from the working class and the religious/ethnic community to academia : a conflict between two definitions of work / Laura H. Weaver -- Grandma went to Smith, all right, but she went from nine to five : a memoir / Patricia Clark Smith -- A farmer's daughter in academia / Jacqueline Burnside -- Yer own motha wouldna reckanized ya : surviving an apprenticeship in the "knowledge factory" / Suzanne Sowinska -- Pass the cake : the politics of gender, class, and text in the academic workplace / Pam Annas.

"Someone to watch over me" : politics and paradoxes in academic mentoring / Cheryl Fish -- Working-class women as students and teachers / Elisabeth Johnson -- Teaching the working woman / Rose Zimbardo -- Recasting the "politics of truth" : thoughts on class, gender, and the role of intellectuals / Pamela A. Fox -- Vestments and vested interests : academia, the working class, and affirmative action / Sharon O'Dair -- Language : closings and openings / Pat Belanoff -- Dissent in the field; or, a new type of intellectual? / Elizabeth A. Fay -- Telling tales in school : a redneck daughter in the academy / Hephzibah Roskelly -- By the rivers of Babylon / Michelle M. Tokarczyk.