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The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects

Author : Barbara G. Walker
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062288873
Total Pages : 2626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects written by Barbara G. Walker and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 2626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features: Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object 21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities' Signs, Supernaturals, Body Parts, Nature, Birds, Plants, Minerals, Stones and Shells, and more Introductory essays for each section 753 entries and 636 illustrations Alphabetical index for easy reference Three-Rayed Sun The sun suspended in heaven by three powers, perhaps the Triple Goddess who gave birth to it (see Three-Way Motifs). Corn Dolly An embodiment of the harvest to be set in the center of the harvest dance, or fed to the cattle to `make them thrive year round' (see Secular-Sacred Objects). Tongue In Asia, the extended tongue was a sign of life-force as the tongue between the lips imitated the sacred lingam-yoni: male within female genital. Sticking out the tongue is still a polite sign of greeting in northern India and Tibet (see Body Parts). Cosmic Egg In ancient times the primeval universe-or the Great Mother-took the form of an egg. It carried all numbers and letters within an ellipse, to show that everything is contained within one form at the beginning (see Round and Oval Motifs).

Symbols for Women

Author : Sheila Farrant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780044404590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Symbols for Women written by Sheila Farrant and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 2,000 years the symbols and interpretations of astrological signs have reflected a patriarchal system which has little connection with women's images of themselves. Symbols for Women examines an earlier, matrilineal system of astrology - drawing on anthropology, mythology and recent archaeological discoveries - to provide a reinterpretation of the 12 zodiacal signs which will redress this imbalance.

Woman

Author : Helen M. Luke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Woman written by Helen M. Luke and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Wrote in Symbols

Author : Selma Dabbagh
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 : 086356495X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book We Wrote in Symbols written by Selma Dabbagh and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another – that many of the writers are women. We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the works of 75 of these female writers of Arab heritage who articulate love and lust with artistry and skill. Here, a wedding night takes an unexpected turn beneath a canopy of stars; a woman on the run meets her match in a flirtatious encounter at Dubai Airport; and a carnal awakening occurs in a Palestinian refugee camp. From a masked rendezvous in a circus, to meetings in underground bars and unmade beds, there is no such thing as a typical sexual encounter, as this electrifying anthology shows. Powerfully conveying the complexities and intrigues of desire, We Wrote in Symbols invites you to share these characters' wildest fantasies and most intimate moments. 'Fierce, captivating, revolutionary. A dazzling collection that will win hearts and change minds.'- Elif Shafak 'These voices are furious, witty, outrageous, tender and entranced. This collection offers much delightful entertainment and fresh perspectives on women and sex in the Middle East.'- Marina Warner

The Woman Warrior

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307759334
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Woman Warrior written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.

Woman at Point Zero

Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9780862321109
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Woman at Point Zero written by Nawāl Saʻdāwī and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So begins Firdaus' story, leading to her grimy Cairo prison cell, where she welcomes her death sentence as a relief from her pain and suffering. Born to a peasant family in the Egyptian countryside, Firdaus suffers a childhood of cruelty and neglect. Her passion for education is ignored by her family, and on leaving school she is forced to marry a much older man. Following her escapes from violent relationships, she finally meets Sharifa who tells her that 'A man does not know a woman's value ... the higher you price yourself the more he will realise what you are really worth' and leads her into a life of prostitution. Desperate and alone, she takes drastic action. -- Publisher description.

Symbols of the Goddess

Author : Clare Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887354202
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Symbols of the Goddess written by Clare Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Women of Brewster Place

Author : Gloria Naylor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014313616X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Women of Brewster Place written by Gloria Naylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones “[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off triumphantly.” —The New York Times Book Review “Brims with inventiveness—and relevance.” —NPR's Fresh Air In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition in this touching and unforgettable read.

Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice

Author : Agnes Bolsø
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315308932
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice written by Agnes Bolsø and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. As the intricate relationship between the symbolic and the everyday remains under-researched, this anthology proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective drawing on the humanities in order to explore the complex nature of the gendered politics of organizations. Indeed, analyzing how images, narratives, symbols and bodies are all part of how power and gender are constructed in organizations through a broad and international range of empirical studies, Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice explores issues at the interstices of the humanities and social sciences, combining theoretical and analytical perspectives from both areas. Providing a radical analysis of the gendered dynamics of power as well as petitioning for radical intervention into those dynamics, this timely volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as: Organization and Management Studies, Gender studies, Feminist theory and Sociology of Work & Industry.

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Author : Nell Irvin Painter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039363566X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol written by Nell Irvin Painter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-10-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A triumph of scholarly maturity, imagination, and narrative art.”—Arnold Rampersad Sojourner Truth: formerly enslaved person and unforgettable abolitionist of the mid-nineteenth century, a figure of imposing physique, a riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight-talking and unsentimental, Truth became an early national symbol for strong Black women—indeed, for all strong women. In this modern classic of scholarship and sympathetic understanding, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter goes beyond the myths, words, and photographs to uncover the life of a complex woman who was born into slavery and died a legend.

Goddesses and the Divine Feminine

Author : Rosemary Ruether
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520250055
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Goddesses and the Divine Feminine written by Rosemary Ruether and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scholarship in this book is superior, revealing a depth of insight and a scope of knowledge possible only from a scholar who has lived with the concerns of feminist theology for decades. Ruether is a gifted storyteller, and lucidly translates complex ideas and debates. This work is of the highest importance, and Ruether asks the right questions at the right time. The text is groundbreaking."—Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Saint Mary's College of California "Ruether has provided a valuable introduction to an important feminist topic: what can we know about sacred female imagery in Western culture? She guides us through contemporary feminist scholarship, providing engaging narrative, and venturing her own interpretations. Ruether calls for feminists to move beyond divisions created by our different interpretations of prehistory and work together towards our common project of a more peaceful, just, and ecological world."—Carol Hepokoski, Meadville Lombard Theological School

Symbols and Magic in the Arts of Kabyle Women

Author : Makilam
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488707
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Symbols and Magic in the Arts of Kabyle Women written by Makilam and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makilam's research on the history of women and Berber culture, one of North Africa's most ancient civilizations, demonstrates that the Kabyle women's magic practices, graphic symbols, and rites of passage permit a new interpretation of their cultural identity from those that have traditionally been attributed to them by Western observers. This completely new vision of the symbolic grammar of the «decorations, » notably expressed in pottery, weaving, tattoos, and wall-paintings, leads us to reconsider the meaning of the Kabyle arts and contributes to our knowledge of Maghreb cultures and the role of women in «traditional» societies.

Women's stories, women's symbols

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Women's stories, women's symbols written by Caroline Walker Bynum and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Especially for Young Women

Author : Jean D. Crowther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882903606
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Especially for Young Women written by Jean D. Crowther and published by . This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Symbolic Representation of Gender

Author : Dr Emanuela Lombardo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472403258
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Symbolic Representation of Gender written by Dr Emanuela Lombardo and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is symbolic representation? Since Hanna Pitkin’s seminal The Concept of Representation, the symbolic has been the least studied dimension of political representation. Innovatively adopting a discursive approach, this book - the first full-length treatment of symbolic representation - focuses on gender issues to tackle important questions such as: What are women and men symbols of, and how is gender constructed in policy discourse? It studies what functions symbolic representation fulfils in the construction of gender, what social roles get legitimized in policy discourse, and how this affects power constellations, ultimately revealing much about the relation between symbolic, descriptive, and substantive representation. Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier draw on theories of symbolic representation and gender, as well as rich primary material about political debates on labour and care issues, partnership and reproductive rights, gender violence, and quotas. Using this original data, the authors show that reconsidering symbolic representation from a discursive perspective makes explicit issues of (in)equality embedded within particular constructions, as well as their consequences for political representation and gender equality. This important exploration raises relevant new questions regarding the representation of gender that form valuable contributions to the fields of political science, political theory, sociology, and gender studies.

Clare of Assisi a Woman's Life

Author : Jean-Francois Godet-Calogeras
Publisher : Tau Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781619561274
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Clare of Assisi a Woman's Life written by Jean-Francois Godet-Calogeras and published by Tau Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Clare of Assisi, A Woman's Life by Jean-Francois Godet-CalogerasBefore "throwing ourselves" into Clare and her writings, it is of value, and even a necessity, to step back a bit from them. This book begins by asking: what is a woman? what does feminine mean?

A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms

Author : Francisca de Haan
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053723
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms written by Francisca de Haan and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women’s movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women’s movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian ‘literary feminists,’ Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women’s movements and feminisms.