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Mormon Women at the Crossroads

Author : Caroline Kline
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053354
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Mormon Women at the Crossroads written by Caroline Kline and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Mormon History Association Best International Book Award The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with longstanding tensions surrounding gender and race. Yet women of color in the United States and across the Global South adopt and adapt the faith to their contexts, many sharing the high level of satisfaction expressed by Latter-day Saints in general. Caroline Kline explores the ways Latter-day Saint women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the United States navigate gender norms, but also how their moral priorities and actions challenge Western feminist assumptions. Kline analyzes these traditional religious women through non-oppressive connectedness, a worldview that blends elements of female empowerment and liberation with a broader focus on fostering positive and productive relationships in different realms. Even as members of a patriarchal institution, the women feel a sense of liberation that empowers them to work against oppression and against alienation from both God and other human beings. Vivid and groundbreaking, Mormon Women at the Crossroads merges interviews with theory to offer a rare discussion of Latter-day Saint women from a global perspective.

Women at the Crossroads

Author : Chana Bracha Siegelbaum
Publisher : Chana Bracha Siegelbaum
ISBN 13 : 1936068095
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Women at the Crossroads written by Chana Bracha Siegelbaum and published by Chana Bracha Siegelbaum. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women at the Crossroads: A Woman's Perspective on the Weekly Torah Portion comprises 53 essays pertaining to women based on each of the weekly Torah Portions throughout the year. Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum discusses in-depth the characters and dilemmas of the women in the Torah that are relevant to the issues which women encounter today. The author explores the underlying values of laws and rituals that pertain to women by examining the inherent nature of women as presented in the Torah. Based on the intricacies of the Torah text, she shows the beauty and depth of the role of women as portrayed in the Torah and teaches the importance of women and their immense influence on society as prime movers of history. The book is divided into five chapters, corresponding to the five books of the Torah. Each chapter is divided into sections according to each Torah portion. In addition, it includes a comprehensive and useful compilation of biographies of the commentaries quoted in the book. Expounding the Torah text through methodical research of Midrash, Talmud and traditional commentators, such as Rashi and the Ramban, placed side-by-side with Chassidic masters like the Me'or v'Shemesh and modern commentators including Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum weaves together the strands that make up the tapestry of life for the contemporary woman.Rather than paying homage to the external, competitive, masculine world, the author demonstrates how Jewish women of today may look inwards to the women in the Torah for guidance in choosing their priorities in life.

Women at the Crossroads

Author : Kari Torjesen Malcolm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Women at the Crossroads written by Kari Torjesen Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kari Torjesen Malcolm offers readers a satisfying alternative to both traditional and feminist models of what a woman should be.

Radicalism at the Crossroads

Author : Dayo F. Gore
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814770118
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Radicalism at the Crossroads written by Dayo F. Gore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks’s 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what black women activists did prior to 1960. Perhaps this gap is due to the severe repression that radicals of any color in America faced as early as the 1930s, and into the Red Scare of the 1950s. To be radical, and black and a woman was to be forced to the margins and consequently, these women’s stories have been deeply buried and all but forgotten by the general public and historians alike. In this exciting work of historical recovery, Dayo F. Gore unearths and examines a dynamic, extended network of black radical women during the early Cold War, including established Communist Party activists such as Claudia Jones, artists and writers such as Beulah Richardson, and lesser known organizers such as Vicki Garvin and Thelma Dale. These women were part of a black left that laid much of the groundwork for both the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and later strains of black radicalism. Radicalism at the Crossroads offers a sustained and in-depth analysis of the political thought and activism of black women radicals during the Cold War period and adds a new dimension to our understanding of this tumultuous time in United States history.

Standing at the Crossroads

Author : Marian N. Ruderman
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Standing at the Crossroads written by Marian N. Ruderman and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) with participants in The Women's Leadership Program, the book provides a basis for understanding the many choices, tradeoffs, and decisions that face women daily. Showcasing many personal stories, it spotlights five key themes that are essential to guiding executive women's development today - the need to act authentically, make connections, control one's destiny, achieve wholeness, and gain self-clarity."--BOOK JACKET.

Women At A Crossroads

Author : M. Lewis Renaud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134385021
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Women At A Crossroads written by M. Lewis Renaud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV ravaged the African continent faster and earlier than any other in the world, spreading primarily through unprotected heterosexual sex. Kaolack, Senegal is a town where travellers and prostitutes converge, and HIV transmission rates have soared, especially among the prostitutes. Going beyond empirical analysis of risk/behaviour data, Women at the Crossroads tells the stories of these women in their own words. The women portrayed keep their profession a secret from their families and friends, but abide by Senegalese law which states that prostitution is legal for those who register with the police and undergo bi-monthly health examinations. By observing one clinic's successful AIDS education campaign, anthropologist Michelle Renaud demonstrates that information presented in a culturally appropriate manner can, in fact, achieve the difficult goal of behaviour change. Although these women claim to be trapped by the social and political forces that have led them to enter prostitution, Renaud argues that they have taken control of their destinies in an inspiring fashion.

Midwestern Women

Author : Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211330
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Midwestern Women written by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining four centuries of Midwestern women's history, contributors discuss ways these women's lives both resemble and differ from those of women of other regions. Midwestern female experience is shown to be distinctive in terms of degrees of migration, which resulted in the Midwest becoming a cultural crossroads.

Meeting at the Crossroads

Author : Lyn Mikel Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674731820
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Meeting at the Crossroads written by Lyn Mikel Brown and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the way to womanhood, what does a girl give up? For five years, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, asking this question, listened to one hundred girls who were negotiating the rough terrain of adolescence. This book invites us to listen, too, and to hear in these girls' voices what is rarely spoken, often ignored, and generally misunderstood: how the passage out of girlhood is a journey into silence, disconnection, and dissembling, a troubled crossing that our culture has plotted with dead ends and detours. In the course of their research, Brown and Gilligan developed a Listener's Guide - a method of following the pathways of girls' thoughts and feelings, of distinguishing what girls are saying by the way they say it. We witness the struggle girls undergo as they enter adolescence only to find that what they feel and think and know can no longer be said directly. We see them at a cultural impasse, and listen as they make the painful, necessary adjustments, outspokenness giving way to circumspection, self-knowledge to uncertainty, authority to compliance. These changes mark the edge of adolescence as a watershed in women's psychological development, a time of wrenching disjunctions between body and psyche, voice and desire, self and relationship. Brown and Gilligan open their method to us and share their discoveries as they encourage girls at different ages to speak about themselves in conversation with women. They follow some of these girls over time, listening to changes in their distinct voices from one year to the next, addressing their successes and failures as they confront one barrier after another. This groundbreaking work offers major new insights into girls' development and women's psychology. But perhaps more importantly, it provides women with the means of meeting girls at the critical crossroads of adolescence, of harkening to the voices of girlhood and sustaining their sell-affirming notes.

Lebanese Women at the Crossroads

Author : Nelia Hyndman-Rizk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498522750
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Lebanese Women at the Crossroads written by Nelia Hyndman-Rizk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the end of the civil war, Lebanese women are still struggling for gender equality. This study builds on recent scholarship on women’s activism in the Arab world, in the context of the Arab Spring. It examines how discourses of secularism and equal civil rights have informed the contemporary Lebanese women’s movement in their campaigns for a domestic violence law, women’s nationality rights, a women’s quota in parliament, the reform of personal status law and the recognition of civil marriage. This book argues that women are caught between sect and nation, due to Lebanon’s plural legal system, which makes a division between religious and civil law. While both jurisdictions allocate women relational rights, guided by the logic of patrilineal descent, women’s inequality is central to the reproduction of sectarian difference and patriarchal control within the confessional political system, as a whole.

Leaving Deep Water

Author : Claire S. Chow
Publisher : Penguin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Deep Water written by Claire S. Chow and published by Penguin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these intimate reflections, the disparate voices of the women are unified by their shared ethnic background and a sense of cultural displacement. A source of wisdom and understanding, Leaving Deep Water offers guidance, inspiration, and a shared sense of struggle that celebrates the human ability to craft a new identity in a new place.

At the Crossroads

Author : Jane T. Merritt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807899895
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book At the Crossroads written by Jane T. Merritt and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier. Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence. They traded skills and resources and found a common enemy in the colonial authorities, including the powerful Six Nations, who attempted to control them and the land they inhabited. Using innovative research in German Moravian records, among other sources, Merritt explores the cultural practices, social needs, gender dynamics, economic exigencies, and political forces that brought native Americans and Euramericans together in the first half of the eighteenth century. But as Merritt demonstrates, the tolerance and even cooperation that once marked relations between Indians and whites collapsed during the Seven Years' War. By the 1760s, as the white population increased, a stronger, nationalist identity emerged among both white and Indian populations, each calling for new territorial and political boundaries to separate their communities. Differences between Indians and whites--whether political, economic, social, religious, or ethnic--became increasingly characterized in racial terms, and the resulting animosity left an enduring legacy in Pennsylvania's colonial history.

Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

Author : Kim Marie Vaz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415898867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads written by Kim Marie Vaz and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current economic climate, where many colleges and universities across the US find themselves facing budget crises and cutbacks for historically marginalized academic disciplines such as women's studies, a politics of solidarity is needed, perhaps more than ever. In the spirit of previous feminist bridge-work, the editors and contributors of Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads offer pragmatic case studies in women's studies alliance across the "color line" in the face of institutional crisis.

Framed by War

Author : Susie Woo
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479880531
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Framed by War written by Susie Woo and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times defied, US empire in the Pacific. What unfolded in Korea set the stage for US postwar power in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. American destruction and humanitarianism, violence and care played out upon the bodies of Korean children and women. Framed by War traces the arc of intimate relations that served as these foundations. To suture a fragmented past, Susie Woo looks to US and South Korean government documents and military correspondence; US aid organization records; Korean orphanage registers; US and South Korean newspapers and magazines; and photographs, interviews, films, and performances. Integrating history with visual and cultural analysis, Woo chronicles how Americans went from knowing very little about Koreans to making them family, and how Korean children and women who did not choose war found ways to navigate its aftermath in South Korea, the United States, and spaces in between.

Created Equal

Author : Ann Rossi
Publisher : National Geographic Kids
ISBN 13 : 9780792282853
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Created Equal written by Ann Rossi and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of American women's fight for voting rights. On a summer day in 1848, a gathering of women in Seneca Falls, New York, gave birth to a new revolution in American history--the fight for women's rights. In the 1880s and earlier, most people believed that a woman's place was in the home. Despite the overriding opinion, some women saw that their lives were limited by this view. These women decided to bravely fight the norm. Created Equal is the story of this struggle--women's struggle for the right to vote. Understand why women sought reform, how they formed partnerships with one another, and how the movement suffered from its own inner battles. Learn about pioneering women suffragists such as Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul.

Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge

Author : Micaela di Leonardo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520910354
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge written by Micaela di Leonardo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge brings feminist anthropology up to date, highlighting the theoretical sophistication that characterizes recent research. Twelve essays by outstanding scholars, written with the volume's concerns specifically in mind, range across the broadest anthropological terrain, assessing and contributing to feminist work on biological anthropology, primate studies, global economy, new reproductive technologies, ethno-linguistics, race and gender, and more. The editor's introduction not only sets two decades of feminist anthropological work in the multiple contexts of changes in anthropological theory and practice, political and economic developments, and larger intellectual shifts, but also lays out the central insights feminist anthropology has to offer us in the postmodern era. The profound issues raised by the authors resonate with the basic interests of any discipline concerned with gender, that is, all of the social sciences and humanities.

The Crossroads of Class and Gender

Author : Lourdes Benería
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226042329
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Crossroads of Class and Gender written by Lourdes Benería and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative exploration of the interaction between economic processes and social relations, Lourdes Benería and Martha Roldán examine the effect of homework on gender and family dynamics. Their fieldwork in Mexico City during 1981-82 has enabled them to provide important new empirical data on industrial piecework performed by women as well as intimate glimpses of these women's lives which place that piecework in context. Tracing the stages of production from home to jobber, workshop, and manufacturer (often a multinational corporation), the authors demonstrate the way in which the work and lives of these women are connected through subcontracting to the national and often international system of production.

What is Work?

Author : Raffaella Sarti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339125
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book What is Work? written by Raffaella Sarti and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.