Delese Wear is Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Coordinator, Human Values in Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

• Introduction PART I. SOLITUDE AND IDENTITY 1. A Reconnection to Self: Women and SolitudeDelese Wear 2. Solitude, Suffering, and Personal AuthorityLynne McFall 3. Reclaiming the Safety of Solitude: Being With, Not Hiding FromMara Sapon-Shevin 4. Time Alone, Place Apart: The Role of Spiracy in Using the Power of SolitudeJacqueline Jones Royster 5. Who Am I When I'm Alone with Myself?Jo Anne Pagano 6. Claiming the Tenured BodyElizabeth Ellsworth 7. When We're Together, I Feel So Alone: Solitude in the Midst of a CrowdBeth Rushing 8. Borders of SolitudeTuija Pulkkinen PART II. SOLITUDE AND CULTURE 9. A Unicorn's Memoirs: Solitude and the Life of Teaching and LearningKal Alston 10. One-Way Mirrors, Alchemy, and PlentitudeGlorianne M. Leck 11. Inner Life, Outer World: Women and Solitude in IndiaDarshan Perusek 12. The Solitary Reader Revisited: Dialogues on a Working-Class GirlhoodElyse Eidman-Aadahl 13. Speaking in Tongues: An African-American Woman in the World and the AcademyBeverly M. Gordon 14. Women, Single Life, and Solitude: A Plea to Rethink CurriculumSusan Laird PART III. SOLITUDE AND WORK 15. Private Spaces: The Political Economy of Women's SolitudeMagda Lewis 16. Opening the Closed DoorEllen Michaelson 17. Solitude and Irony: A Private Vision and Public PositionElaine Atkins 18. Solitary Spaces: Women, Teaching, and CurriculumJanet L. Miller 19. Writing Autobiographically in Solitude about Teaching: Why To; How ToAnn Berlak 20. A Time and Place of One's Own: Women's Struggles for SolitudeLinda K. Christian-Smith Contributing Authors Index

Delese Wear is Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Coordinator, Human Values in Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

• Introduction PART I. SOLITUDE AND IDENTITY 1. A Reconnection to Self: Women and SolitudeDelese Wear 2. Solitude, Suffering, and Personal AuthorityLynne McFall 3. Reclaiming the Safety of Solitude: Being With, Not Hiding FromMara Sapon-Shevin 4. Time Alone, Place Apart: The Role of Spiracy in Using the Power of SolitudeJacqueline Jones Royster 5. Who Am I When I'm Alone with Myself?Jo Anne Pagano 6. Claiming the Tenured BodyElizabeth Ellsworth 7. When We're Together, I Feel So Alone: Solitude in the Midst of a CrowdBeth Rushing 8. Borders of SolitudeTuija Pulkkinen PART II. SOLITUDE AND CULTURE 9. A Unicorn's Memoirs: Solitude and the Life of Teaching and LearningKal Alston 10. One-Way Mirrors, Alchemy, and PlentitudeGlorianne M. Leck 11. Inner Life, Outer World: Women and Solitude in IndiaDarshan Perusek 12. The Solitary Reader Revisited: Dialogues on a Working-Class GirlhoodElyse Eidman-Aadahl 13. Speaking in Tongues: An African-American Woman in the World and the AcademyBeverly M. Gordon 14. Women, Single Life, and Solitude: A Plea to Rethink CurriculumSusan Laird PART III. SOLITUDE AND WORK 15. Private Spaces: The Political Economy of Women's SolitudeMagda Lewis 16. Opening the Closed DoorEllen Michaelson 17. Solitude and Irony: A Private Vision and Public PositionElaine Atkins 18. Solitary Spaces: Women, Teaching, and CurriculumJanet L. Miller 19. Writing Autobiographically in Solitude about Teaching: Why To; How ToAnn Berlak 20. A Time and Place of One's Own: Women's Struggles for SolitudeLinda K. Christian-Smith Contributing Authors Index

Delese Wear is Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Coordinator, Human Values in Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

• Introduction PART I. SOLITUDE AND IDENTITY 1. A Reconnection to Self: Women and SolitudeDelese Wear 2. Solitude, Suffering, and Personal AuthorityLynne McFall 3. Reclaiming the Safety of Solitude: Being With, Not Hiding FromMara Sapon-Shevin 4. Time Alone, Place Apart: The Role of Spiracy in Using the Power of SolitudeJacqueline Jones Royster 5. Who Am I When I'm Alone with Myself?Jo Anne Pagano 6. Claiming the Tenured BodyElizabeth Ellsworth 7. When We're Together, I Feel So Alone: Solitude in the Midst of a CrowdBeth Rushing 8. Borders of SolitudeTuija Pulkkinen PART II. SOLITUDE AND CULTURE 9. A Unicorn's Memoirs: Solitude and the Life of Teaching and LearningKal Alston 10. One-Way Mirrors, Alchemy, and PlentitudeGlorianne M. Leck 11. Inner Life, Outer World: Women and Solitude in IndiaDarshan Perusek 12. The Solitary Reader Revisited: Dialogues on a Working-Class GirlhoodElyse Eidman-Aadahl 13. Speaking in Tongues: An African-American Woman in the World and the AcademyBeverly M. Gordon 14. Women, Single Life, and Solitude: A Plea to Rethink CurriculumSusan Laird PART III. SOLITUDE AND WORK 15. Private Spaces: The Political Economy of Women's SolitudeMagda Lewis 16. Opening the Closed DoorEllen Michaelson 17. Solitude and Irony: A Private Vision and Public PositionElaine Atkins 18. Solitary Spaces: Women, Teaching, and CurriculumJanet L. Miller 19. Writing Autobiographically in Solitude about Teaching: Why To; How ToAnn Berlak 20. A Time and Place of One's Own: Women's Struggles for SolitudeLinda K. Christian-Smith Contributing Authors Index