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Judith Love Schwab had many duties as a global volunteer, but some
of the most memorable were following meerkats in the Kalahari
Desert, collecting data on early gardens and buildings for
archaeologists on Easter Island, helping care for underserved
babies in Romania, teaching English in Poland, sifting for bones
and shells in Portugal and working with severely disabled adults at
an institution in Greece. While recounting these experiences,
Schwab also examines the limitations imposed on her as a female
growing up in the middle of the 20th century and the inhibitions
she overcame to begin traveling in her fifties.
The visionary achievements of Isabella (Isabel) Caroline Somerset,
like the temperance cause she led, have undeservedly faded into
obscurity. By her contemporaries she was feted for her social
activism, and at the time of her death in 1921, Isabel Somerset's
vigorous reform efforts were internationally recognised and
acclaimed by humanitarian, political and social-reform
organisations and the labour movement. Beginning with local
temperance and philanthropic work, Isabel Somerset progressed to
become president of the British Women's Temperance Association,
which she gradually transformed from a single-issue organisation
into one committed to women's rights and a broad range of social
initiatives; the BWTA became a potent pressure-group force in the
politically influential, late-nineteenth-century temperance
movement. Discouraged by the existing punitive, futile methods used
to combat alcoholism, she founded a farm colony for female
inebriates and employed a pioneering rehabilitation programme based
upon therapeutic treatment and life-style changes. Through her
close co-operation with American temperance icon Frances Willard,
Isabel Somerset strengthened the bonds between the Anglo-American
and international temperance and women's movements. Isabel
Somerset's activism did not go unchallenged. In 1893 she
successfully overcame the BWTA social conservatives' attempts to
unseat her, and thereafter expanded the membership to hitherto
unprecedented levels. In 1897-8 her position on state-regulated
prostitution in India created a controversy which reverberated
beyond the Association to encompass its sister organizations and
proved temporarily detrimental to Somerset's reputation and
credibility. Isabel survived this disputation, retaining her
presidency and succeeding Willard as president of the World's
Woman's Christian Temperance Union following her death in 1898.
Isabel Somerset was a devout Christian, compassionate humanitarian,
temperance activist, committed social reformer and women's rights
campaigner, a charismatic leader and eloquent orator. Her roles of
reformer and women's advocate, as revealed anew in the pages of
this biography, place her in the pantheon of notable Victorian
female reformers.
Against a backdrop of increasing democratic freedom and the
associated process of aristocratic decline, this book examines the
political influence of the leading Tory hostesses, the
Marchionesses of Londonderry. Over one hundred and fifty years,
from 1800-1959, these women were patrons and confidantes to key
political figures such as Disraeli, Bonar Law, Edward Carson and
Ramsay MacDonald. By the late nineteenth century upper-class women
were at the height of their prowess, exerting political sway by
private means whilst exploiting more public avenues of political
work: canvassing, addressing meetings and leading the new
associations established in an attempt to educate a mass
electorate. At that time this hybrid of private and public
aristocratic politicking aroused little criticism but, by the
interwar period, the alleged hold that the 7th Marchioness of
Londonderry, Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, had over MacDonald
prompted widespread criticism of her role as the 'Mother' of the
National Government. The Ladies of Londonderry offers the first
examination of the powerful political hostesses of the Anglo-Irish
establishment and sheds considerable light on the workings of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics.
Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have
been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged. As
mapped out by Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin, in
West Africa Christian and Muslim organisations have come to
dominate the field of humanitarian assistance. Moving beyond
mainstream development theory, Faith and Charity brings out the
crucial role of religion in the development process and the
interplay of moral and political ideologies. From faith-based NGOs
to individual local activists, the authors explore how each group
makes sense of, and contributes to, the wider process of social
development in the neoliberal era. Based on extensive research and
deploying a sophisticated and original frame of analysis, Faith and
Charity will make an important contribution to the existing
literature on development anthropology and the anthropology of
religion in Africa.
George Henry Alexander Clowes was a pivotal figure in the
development of the insulin program at the Eli Lilly Company.
Through his leadership, scientists and clinicians at Lilly and the
University of Toronto created a unique, international team to
develop and purify insulin and take the production of this
life-saving agent to an industrial scale. This biography, written
by his grandson, presents his scientific achievements, and also
takes note of his social and philanthropic contributions, which he
shared with his wife, Edith. It tells the story of Clowes from his
childhood in late Victorian England to his death at Woods Hole on
Cape Cod in 1958. Educated in England and Germany, Clowes came to
America to join a startup laboratory in Buffalo, where he conducted
basic research on cancer and applied research on other
disease-related problems. Assuming the position of head of research
at Lilly, Clowes was at the center of one of the great discoveries
that changed the course of medical history and offered new life to
millions of individuals with diabetes and other metabolic
disorders. Clowes was also instrumental in the development of other
commercial pharmaceutical advances. Devoted to a number of
philanthropic causes, Clowes and Edith contributed greatly to the
cultural life of his adopted country, a contribution that continues
to this day.
Since 2010 we have witnessed new ways of assembling, which have
made the word "democracy" sound important again. These practices
may not have led to the political changes we had hoped for.
Nevertheless, we are convinced of their importance. This book wants
to acknowledge them as a starting point for a new art of being
many: The "many" invoke new concepts of collectivity by
renegotiating their modes of participation and (self-)presentation
and by rewriting rhetorical, choreographical, and material scripts
of assembling. This volume is inspired and informed by the
square-occupations and neighborhood assemblies of the "real
democracy" movements as well as by recent explorations of the
assembly form in performance art and participatory theatre.
For decades, the Chinese Rescue Home was a feature of the landscape
of Victoria, British Columbia. Originally a refuge for Chinese
prostitutes and slave girls rescued from captivity, it became a
residence and school where the Methodist Women's Missionary Society
attempted to reform Chinese and Japanese girls and women. They did
so, in part, by teaching them domestic skills meant to ease their
integration into Western society. This book offers the first
in-depth history and analysis of this iconic institution and
expands our understanding of the complex interplay between gender,
race, and class in BC during this time.
In 1999, Juliet Cutler leaves the United States to teach at the
first school for Maasai girls in East Africa. Captivated by the
stories of young Maasai women determined to get an education in the
midst of a culture caught between the past and the future, she
seeks to empower and support her students as they struggle to
define their own fates. Cutler soon learns that behind their shy
smiles and timid facades, her Maasai students are much stronger
than they appear. For them, adolescence requires navigating a risky
world of forced marriages, rape, and genital cutting, all in the
midst of a culture grappling with globalization. In the face of
these challenges, these young women believe education offers hope,
and so, against all odds, they set off alone traveling hundreds of
miles and even forsaking their families simply to go to school.
Twenty years of involvement with this school and its students
reveal to Cutler the important impacts of education across time, as
well as the challenges inherent in tackling issues of human rights
and extreme poverty across vastly different cultures. Working
alongside local educators, Cutler emerges transformed by the
community she finds in Tanzania and by witnessing the life-changing
impact of education on her students. Proceeds from the sale of this
book support education for at-risk Maasai girls.
Microskills es el programa original del entrenamiento de las
habilidades de entrevista y es el mas investigado. Los fundamentos
del escuchar se han ensenado a cientos de miles de personas a
traves del mundo y en 17 idiomas, o mas. Esta edicion en espanol te
permitira: Utilizar por el segundo capitulo la habilidad mas
fundamental del escuchar, el comportamiento atencional. Aprender y
dominar las habilidades de escuchar basicas, tales como preguntar,
motivar, parafrasear, reflejar sentimientos y resumir, utilizando
un proceso de aprendizaje paso-a-paso. Entender como adaptar las
habilidades de entrevistar a las diferencias individuales y
multiculturales. Completar una entrevista bien estructurada usando
solamente las habilidades de escuchar. Ensenar a tus propios
clientes y a otras personas las importantes habilidades de
escuchar, y utilizar estas habilidades con grupos y familias.
The Origins of UNICEF traces the history of the founding of the
world's most well-known and often controversial relief aid
organization for children. UNICEF modeled itself after several
national organizations as well as some of the early
twentieth-century transnational and international relief aid
organizations, catering to a clientele that many observers claimed
would be impossible to resist or ignore. In only a few years,
UNICEF's programs provided relief aid to millions of children in
locations around the globe, but the atmosphere of post-war
cooperation, quickly supplanted by Cold War tensions, caused
UNICEF's efforts to be scrutinized lest they be too closely aligned
with either the United States or the Soviet Bloc. UNICEF remains
one of the most highly regarded and effective child relief-aid
organizations in the world. The story of its founding and its first
years as an aid organization provide insight into how an
international, apolitical, philanthropic organization must maneuver
through political and cultural tensions in order to achieve its
goal of mitigating human suffering.
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