"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.