"Wise Women" is a collection of autobiographical essays by important and renowned teachers at mid-life. The essays, which are deeply personal, will focus on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical, and social changes brought on by menopause and how the aging process affects their lives as professionals, feminists, writers, mentors, and instructors in the academy. The book addresses such questions as the following: What challenges are left for the feminists who came of age during the women's movement and now have achieved academic success? How do women teachers experience their aging selves in the classroom? What legacy will mid-life women leave their younger women colleagues? All of these questions, as well as many others, are covered in this insightful and groundbreaking work.

Written by influential and renowned teachers at midlife, this collection includes deeply personal and groundbreaking autobiographical accounts of women who came of age during the second wave of the women's movement and are now wise women on campus. The essays in Wise Women provide powerful accounts of the psychological, physical, and social changes brought on by menopause, and details the ways in which the aging process affects these women's lives as teachers, feminists, leaders, mentors and writers. These joyful, funny, impassioned accounts are among the best writing ever produced on what life is really like for women in the ivory tower.