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This perceptive and practical guide explores the growing phenomenon
of successful women serving as mentors to other women in academia
or in professional careers. In this unprecedented handbook, the
team of coeditors and contributors show the immeasurable impact of
women helping women via a method that has become a "hot-button"
topic nationwide—mentoring. In A Handbook for Women Mentors:
Transcending Barriers of Stereotype, Race, and Ethnicity, an expert
author team—all experienced mentors—provide specific strategies
for women mentoring women, showing how mentoring relationships
benefit individuals, women as a group, and the nation as a whole.
Discussions include ongoing challenges—and potential
pitfalls—for women confronting obstacles in their education and
professional careers, with special attention to minority
women—whether it is a mother of four leading a university
department, an African American woman working in engineering, or a
Latina female advancing in the field of math.
As a path of meaning seeking, healing, and transformation,
spirituality is becoming more prominent in our society.
Historically, women have been the custodians of their families'
spiritual domain. This book advances the concept of WomanSoul, a
gender-specific way of embracing spirituality. WomanSoul discusses
the personal and professional impact of spirituality in the lives
of women from a variety of ethnic, religious, and cultural
backgrounds. It examines the psychological, multicultural, and
personal expressions of female spirituality. More specifically, the
essays collected here look at the impact of women's spirituality on
identity, healing, and transformation across the lifecourse.
WomanSoul focuses on how females express spirituality from their
diverse backgrounds and situated realities. It cuts across ethnic
identities, culture, and a multitude of spiritual experiences, such
as Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, Goddess,
Native American, and Agnosticism. As women tend to experience
sacredness in a gender-specific manner, they frequently place more
emphasis on spirituality than on religiousness. Seen as a freeing
force by most women, spirituality is most often perceived to be
more gender-fair, culturally liberating, and less restrictive than
many religious denominations. Both informative and inspirational,
WomanSoul is written by psychologists who understand the
implications of spirituality on the lives of women and the people
around them.
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