Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Senexa. The goddess of age studies, whose motto is "End Ageism," is represented as Michelangelo's Libyan Sybil. Her strong shoulders and muscular arms hold a huge open book.
Her skin color and silvery gray hair were conferred by photographers Laura Brody and Fran Forman.
The book that Senexa reads contains the wisdom of ages, collected from the guardians of the life course. The crone-goddess is interrupting her instruction of the children behind her, who reverently discuss anti-ageist lore, in order to cast a deprecating look at the perpetrators of ageism, invisible beneath her feet. Her teachings are dedicated to the agewise.
Essays
“Afterword,” Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird. NY: Feminist Press of CUNY. Introduction by Elaine Showalter. 1894 feminist novel I discovered in Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
Essay.
New Woman novel. Women’s liberation. Caird. Mother-daughter relations.
Social pressure.
“The Tears (and Joys) Are in the Things: Adulthood in Anne Tyler's Novels,” New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, 1985. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40374887?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Essay in literary quarterly. Revised for Safe at Last in the Middle Years (1988).
Anne Tyler. Fiction. Adulthood.
“A Deep Respect for Students: The Heart of Good Teaching,” Change, July/August 1984.
Article.
Pedagogy.
"The Exile of Adulthood: Pedophilia and the Decline Novel,” Novel 17 #3 (Spring l984): 215-232. Accessible on Jstor.
Essay in literary quarterly.
Fear of adulthood. Pedophilia. Decline narrative.
The Art and Craft of Teaching, edited by Margaret Morganroth Gullette. Harvard University Press, 1986. Originally published by the Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, 1984.
Edited collection.
Pedagogical innovation. Teaching.
“To the Ground.” North American Review 268, No. 2 (June 1983): 58-59.
Essay.
Memoir. Father. Nature. Gardening.
“Women Studying Women: Kikuyus and Classmates” (review of Symposium II), Radcliffe Quarterly (September 1982): 9-10.
Article.
Reunion. Feminism. Age autobiography. Progress.
“Unclassified Affections.” Massachusetts Review XXIII #4 (Winter 1982).
Fiction.
Friendship. Marriage.
“Going Home.” Massachusetts Review XXII, #3 (Autumn 1981).
Fiction.
Father. Dying. Family memoir. Autobiography.
“Liberating Dick and Jane,” Radcliffe Quarterly 65 #4 (December 1979): 13-15.
Article.
Children’s literature. Reading.
“Virginia Woolf's Sanity: ‘My Root is Firm,’ “North American Review (Fall 1979): 56-61. Alternate title, “Who’s Afraid of the Middle Years?” https://www.jstor.org/stable/25125721?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Review-essay.
Virginia Woolf’s Diaries. Psychology. Midlife. Women’s liberation.
“The Condition of the Short Story.” New England Review I # 4 (1979): 521-531.
Essay in literary/cultural quarterly.
Short fiction. Literary criticism.
“Djuna Barnes and Mme. von Bartmann's Daughter,” New Boston Review 3 # 4 (April 1978): 5.
Essay-review.
Djuna Barnes.
“Bringing It All Back Home” (Review of the film Coming Home), New Boston Review 4 #1 (September 1977): 29.
Essay-review.
Film criticism. War. Gender. Vietnam. Disability. Sexuality.
The Lost Bellybutton. Chapel Hill, NC: Lollipop Power Press, 1976. Consortium Book.
Children’s book.
Psychology. Adventure. Girls.