Preface: The Many Betseys
Prologue: A Life Writer’s Unwritten Life
1. The Family as Matrix: When Elizabeth Ann Was a Car, 1922–1941
2. Fitting the Child to the Childhood: A WASP, Canonical, and Gendered Education, 1941–1963
3. From Fido to Fox-Genovese: Confronting Paternalism’s and Anorexia’s Sway, 1963–1969
4. The Quiet Voice: Psychoanalysis and Enlightenment, 1969–1976
5. Woman of Letters: Becoming a Marxist Boulevardière, 1976–1983
6. Returning to Ithaca: Becoming a Women’s Studies Scholar and Southernist, 1980–1986
7. Leaving Home: A Feminist Critic’s Move South, 1986–1992
8. Retreating and Regrouping: After the Wall Fell, 1992–1998
9. Right with God: Public Catholic Intellectual and Southern Scholar, 1998–2007
Epilogue: A Feminist Manqué
Notes
Index