Women Imagine Change (eBook, ePUB)

A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present
Redaktion: DeLamotte C, Eugenia; O'Barr, Jean F.; Meeker, Natania

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, this global, multicultural anthology presents women from 30 countries, speaking from their vivid, diverse life experiences. "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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136742989
• Artikelnr.: 38270400

Autorenporträt

Eugenia C. DeLamotte is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. Her publications include Perilsof the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-CenturyGothic (1990). Natania Meeker is a doctoral candidate at Duke University and has published on feminist theory. University. Jean F. O'Barr is the Director of Women's Studies at Duke University. Her many books include the edited collection Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction
Eugenia DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, Jean O'Barr ;Part I: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Power ; Introduction
Eugenia DeLamotte ; 1. Vibia Perpetua
A Martyr's Vision (203 CE); 2. Margery Kempe
Chastity and Spiritual Desire (1436); 3. Rebecca Cox Jackson
Three Visions (1830's
1840's); 4. Sumangalamata, Nanduttara, and Vimala
I Am Free (6th century BCE) ; 5. Anne Lister
No Priest But Love (1824); 6. Grazida Lizier
Is Making Love a Sin? (c. 1318); 7. Carolyn Mobley
St. Paul and Lesbian Sexuality (1992); 8. Laura Geller
Encountering the Divine Presence (1986); 9. Marguerite d'Oingt (13th
14th century CE) and Mara Clara Bingmer (1990)
Jesus as Woman, Woman as Jesus; 10. Gl3~ckel of Hameln
Israel: A Woman in Travail (1690
1719); 11. Chung Hyun Kyung
The Bodhisattva and the Holy Spirit (1991); 12. Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nu6~4~ez
Fighting the White Man's Gods (early 20th century); 13. Fatima Mernissi (1975) and Ghada Samman (1961)
Islam and Feminism: Changing Interpretations; 14. Voltairine de Cleyre
Sex Slavery (c. 1890); 15. Sei Shnagon
The Good Lover (990
1000 CE); 16. Audre Lorde
The Erotic as Power (1978); 17. Kwok Pui
Lan
Feminist Theology and Female Sexuality (1992); PART II: WORK AND EDUCATION Introduction
Jean O'Barr ; 18. Domitila Barrios de Chungara
I Had to Combine Everything (1978); 19. Atukuri Molla
I Am No Scholar (early 16th century); 20. Hipparchia
My Wisdom is Better (3rd century CE, 1st century BCE); 21. Laura Cereta
Wearied by Your Carping (1488); 22. Sei Shnagon
Women Serving in the Palace (990
1000 CE); 23. Mary Collier
The Constant Action of Our Lab'ring Hands (1739); 24. Maria Curter
My Job Disappeared When the Wall Opened (1991); 25. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
The Purdah Bus (1929); 26. Zitkala
Sa
Planted in a Strange Earth (1921); 27. Mab Segrest
Confessions of a Closet Baptist (1985); 28. Nzinga of Angola
Portrait of an African Queen (17th Century)