Framing the stories / Norma T. Mertz -- A first woman with clout / Edith A. Rusch and Barbara L. Jackson -- Breaking through / Martha McCarthy -- Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won : a fight for tenure / Carolyn J. Wood -- Traversing the fault line / Ellen V. Bueschel about Nelda Cambron-McCabe -- Where the boys were-- with apologies to Connie Francis / Norma T. Mertz -- Goodness of fit / Diana G. Pounder -- First ladies in the academy / Deborah A. Verstegen -- From school administrator to university professor / Betty Malen -- The "accidental" professor / Nona A. Prestine -- Resistance and determination : faculty experiences of a women religious / Patricia A. Bauch -- From the bush to the ivory tower / Mary Gardiner -- One woman's struggle to include and be included / Carolyn M. Keeler -- Being first : stories of social complexities / Paula Myrick Short -- My life as a trophy / Edith A. Rusch -- Making meaning of the stories / Norma T. Mertz
