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A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound
impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and
writer Rebecca Walker. Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking
collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when they
talk about money; it unflinchingly recounts the power of money to
impact health, define relationships, and shape identity. The
collection includes previously unpublished essays by trailblazing
writers, activists, and models, such as Alice Walker, Tressie
McMillan Cottom, Rachel Cargle, Tracy McMillan, Cameron Russell,
Sonya Renee Taylor, Adrienne Maree Brown, and more, with Rebecca
Walker as editor. In this provocative anthology, we discover a
family that worships money even as it tears them apart; we read
about the "financial death sentence" a transgender woman must
confront to live as herself. We trace the journey of a Silicon
Valley entrepreneur who finally makes enough money to discover her
spiritual impoverishment; we follow a stressful email exchange
between an unsympathetic university financial officer and a
desperate family who can't afford to pay their daughter's tuition,
and more. This collection is a clarion call to conduct honest
conversations that demystify and transform the role money plays in
our lives. Dazzlingly resonant and deeply familiar, Women Talk
Money is a revelation.
Telling the stories of young refugees in a range of international
urban settings, this book explores how newcomers navigate urban
spaces and negotiate multiple injustices in their everyday lives.
This innovative edited volume is based on in-depth, qualitative
research with young refugees and their perspectives on migration,
social relations and cultural spaces. The chapters give voice to
refugee youth from a wide variety of social backgrounds, including
insights about their migration experiences, their negotiations of
spatial justice and injustice, and the diverse ways in which they
use urban space.
Telling the stories of young refugees in a range of international
urban settings, this book explores how newcomers navigate urban
spaces and negotiate multiple injustices in their everyday lives.
This innovative edited volume is based on in-depth, qualitative
research with young refugees and their perspectives on migration,
social relations and cultural spaces. The chapters give voice to
refugee youth from a wide variety of social backgrounds, including
insights about their migration experiences, their negotiations of
spatial justice and injustice, and the diverse ways in which they
use urban space.
Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book
provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in
Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes
everyday life itself. The core of the book comes from the author's
two-year close interaction with a group of (mainly women) human
rights activists in the area. The book describes how the activists
work in clandestine, informal ways to support families whose loved
ones have been threatened, disappeared or killed and how they build
networks of trust within the context of everyday violence. As Sri
Lanka faces up to the enormity of the task of 'post-war
reconciliation', this book aims to create a wider conversation
about grief, resistance and healing in the context of violence and
its long afterlife. -- .
A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound
impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and
writer Rebecca Walker. Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking
collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when they
talk about money; it unflinchingly recounts the power of money to
impact health, define relationships, and shape identity. The
collection includes previously unpublished essays by trailblazing
writers, activists, and models, such as Alice Walker, Tressie
McMillan Cottom, Rachel Cargle, Tracy McMillan, Cameron Russell,
Sonya Renee Taylor, Adrienne Maree Brown, and more, with Rebecca
Walker as editor. In this provocative anthology, we discover a
family that worships money even as it tears them apart; we read
about the "financial death sentence" a transgender woman must
confront to live as herself. We trace the journey of a Silicon
Valley entrepreneur who finally makes enough money to discover her
spiritual impoverishment; we follow a stressful email exchange
between an unsympathetic university financial officer and a
desperate family who can't afford to pay their daughter's tuition,
and more. This collection is a clarion call to conduct honest
conversations that demystify and transform the role money plays in
our lives. Dazzlingly resonant and deeply familiar, Women Talk
Money is a revelation.
More important and timely than ever-a collection of illuminating
essays on the shifting definition of the modern American family.
Edited by bestselling writer Rebecca Walker, this fascinating
exploration of today's American family features essays by prominent
voices such as Z.Z. Packer, Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, Asha Bandele,
Neal Pollack, and others, on subjects such as:
- Open marriage
- Gay Marriage
- Green-card marriage
- Interclass Marriage
- Prison marriage
- Househusbands
- Open adoption
- Transracial adoption
- Sperm donation
- Single motherhood
- Polyamory
- Living with in-laws
- Parenting a disabled child
- Bisexual marriage
- Divorce Blended Families
- Bicultural families
- Relationships with child-care providers
- Multiracial families
- Home schooling
- Equal parenting
- Expatriate families
An unabashed celebration of love in all its diversity and
complexity, "One Big Happy Family" is destined to become a
definitive text on the modern American family.
Unlike other motherhood books that focus on the experiences of a
small group of affluent, married white women, Who's Your Mama?
centers on the largely untold perspectives of the majority of
American women whose unique and sometimes unconventional family
structures impact our country. Their contributions speak
practically of their personal beliefs, intimate relationships, and
socioeconomic realities. The book explores the intersection between
motherhood and other facets of the contributors' lives, including
race, class, sexuality, politics, and personal tragedy. Personal
stories include a feminist juggling the roles of activist and
mother, a college graduate who applies for welfare so she can
remain home with her child, a gay couple's navigation of the
adoption process, and a mother's celebration of her own vibrant
sexuality. This collection of personal narratives will illuminate
various female experiences of parenting and humanize a variety of
social and economic issues that affect millions of American women
and their families.
From the international bestselling author of "Black, White, and
Jewish" comes a "wonderfully insightful" ("Associated Press") book
that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade.
Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was
brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. As an adult she longed
for a baby but feared losing her independence. In this very smart
memoir, Walker explores some of the larger sociological trends of
her generation while delivering her own story about the emotional
and intellectual transformation that led her to motherhood.
Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who
haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see
no body outlaws. The writers in this groundbreaking anthology
reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored
shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In doing so, they expand the
national dialogue on body image to include race, ethnicity,
sexuality, and power-issues that, while often overlooked, are
intimately linked to how women feel about their bodies. Body
Outlaws offers stories by those who have chosen to ignore, subvert,
or redefine the dominant beauty standard in order to feel at home
in their bodies. In a culture where plastic surgery has become
nearly as routine as a root canal, this expanded and updated
edition of fresh and incisive commentary challenges the media's
standard notions of beauty with honesty and humor. Included are
several new essays outlining the latest trends in the beauty
industry such as botox, plastic surgery, and exercise bulimia, as
well as a fascinating analysis of how men are affected by these
same rigors, a thorough resource section, and a curriculum guide.
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