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This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some
thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to
resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around
themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine Change
explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality;
women's interlinked struggles to control their labor and education;
their work reshaping representations of gender; and their varied
translations of knowledge into power. Extensive introductions
combine a broad theoretical perspective on gender and resistance
with vivid biographical context.
Not only do the writings show women's resistance from an historical
perspective; they also offer crucial insight into questions women
are posing today about the relationships between their own power,
the power of the various groups to which they belong, and the
larger systems of power they confront in the world around them.
Women Imagine Change shows how women all over the world, across a span of 2,600 years, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, this genuinely global, multicultural anthology presents women from some thirty countries, speaking from their vivid, diverse life experiences. Historical selections are chosen for relevance to current women's issues, and include writings by: Florence Nightingale, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hildegard of Bingen, Paula Gunn Allen, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Angela Davis, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Audre Lorde, Fatima Mernissi, Cherrie Moraga, Hiratsuka Raicho, Margaret Sanger, Mab Segrest and Ruby Thompson.
<div>Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of
occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this
collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal
structures of the time. Individual essays explore women's
challenges to a sexual ideology that confined them strictly to the
roles of wives, mothers, and servants. Also included are sections
on women and work, cultural production and literacy, and religious
life. <br><br>These essays provide a greater
understanding of the ways in which gender has played a part in
determining relations of power in Western cultures. This volume
makes a vital contribution to the current scholarship about women
in the Middle Ages.</div>
Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and
life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection
examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the
time. Individual essays explore women's challenges to a sexual
ideology that confined them strictly to the roles of wives,
mothers, and servants. Also included are sections on women and
work, cultural production and literacy, and religious life.
These essays provide a greater understanding of the ways in which
gender has played a part in determining relations of power in
Western cultures. This volume makes a vital contribution to the
current scholarship about women in the Middle Ages.
Examining the multiple relationships of women to education, this
volume documents the history of women's attempts to gain access to
education, as well as what and how they have learned. Individual
essays explore the development and impact of women's studies, the
significance of women's colleges, and the future of curriculum
transformation, among other topics.
A survey of recent major developments within feminist theory and
analysis, this collection captures a period of transition in
women's scholarship, from the examination of confining categories
and constructs to the self-reflective development of feminist
theory. The fourteen essays in this volume provide critical
application of the practices of complicating gender, raising
consciousness, engaging contradictions, transforming women's
experiences, and naming the politics of theory.
A survey of recent major developments within feminist theory and
analysis, this collection captures a period of transition in
women's scholarship, from the examination of confining categories
and constructs to the self-reflective development of feminist
theory. The fourteen essays in this volume provide critical
application of the practices of complicating gender, raising
consciousness, engaging contradictions, transforming women's
experiences, and naming the politics of theory.
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