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The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work
and Activism examine women's labor struggle from late
nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant
women's work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement
under the Franco dictatorship to workplace democracy in the United
States. The authors portray women's labor activism in a wide
variety of contexts. This includes spontaneous resistance to
masculinist trade unionism, the feminist engagement of women
workers, the activism of communist wives of workers, and female
long-distance migration, among others. The chapters address the
gendered involvement of working people in multiple and often
precarious and unstable labor relations and in unpaid labor, as
well as the role of the state and other institutions in shaping the
history of women's labor. The book is an innovative contribution to
both the new labor history and feminist history. It fully
integrates the conceptual advances made by gender historians in the
study of labor activism, driving home critiques of Eurocentric
historiographies of labor to Europe while simultaneously
contributing to an inclusive history of women's labor-related
activism wherever to be found. Examining women's activism in
male-dominated movements and institutions, and in women's networks
and organizations, the authors make a case for a new direction in
gender history.
Katherine was a beautiful, perfect baby for the first year of her
life. Then, without warning, she changed forever. She started
crossing her eyes. She cried at night for hours at a time and could
not be soothed. She stopped saying words, stopped crawling, and
began what would become a lifelong habit of wringing her hands.
Hospital visits and consultations with doctors offered no answers
to the mystery. Soon Katherine slipped away to a place her mother
and father could never reach.
In "Keeping Katherine," " "Susan Zimmermann tells the story of her
life with her daughter Katherine, who has Rett syndrome, a
devastating neurological disorder. Writing with honesty and candor,
Zimmermann chronicles her personal journey to accept the changed
dynamic of her family; the strain of caring for a special needs
child and the pressure it placed on her marriage, career, and
relationship with her parents; the dilemma of whether Kat would be
better cared for in a group home; and most important, the altered
reality of her daughter's future. A story of personal
transformation that reminds us that it isn't what happens to us
that shapes our humanity, but how we react, "Keeping Katherine"
shows the unconditional love that exists in families and the gifts
the profoundly disabled can offer to those who try to understand
them.
Brings together the analysis of older, mostly local welfare
policies (including their legal framings and their change over
time) with the history of social policy developed by the state and
operated at a national level. Explores also the interaction of
various layers of and actors in welfare policy, i.e. of poor
relief, social reform policies and the unfolding welfare state over
time, including often neglected elements of these policies such as
for instance protective policies at the work place, housing policy,
child protection, and prostitution policies. Making innovative use
of legal, quantitative, and other material, the author describes
how policies of inclusion into and exclusion from access to social
insurance coverage shaped social relations within and beyond the
world of work. The study demonstrates how definitions of what
constituted need have served historically to produce divergent
visions and treatment of male and female poverty, and how these
historical biases have continued to shape and biased the conceptual
apparatus of research into the history of welfare and social
policies.
Susan Zimmermann experienced a devastating loss when her first child, Katherine, developed a neurological disorder that left her unable to walk or talk. Faced with her daughter’s disability, Susan struggled with fear, denial, guilt, bitterness, and despair. She began to heal only through writing. Working through conflicting emotions with paper and pen enabled her to transform her sadness into acceptance and even joy.
Writing to Heal the Soul is Susan’s gift to others—everyone, not just writers—who are suffering any kind of grief or loss, whether the injury, disability, or death of a loved one, the loss of a job, or the end of a relationship. Lyrically illustrated with true stories from the author and others, the book offers simple yet inspiring writing exercises to help you resolve your pain as you transform your grief into words of hope and healing.
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