American culture has literally become fixated on the body at the same time that the body has emerged as a key term within critical and cultural theory. Contributions thus address the body as a site of the cultural construction of various identities, which are themselves enacted, negotiated, or subverted through bodily practices. Contributions come from literary and cultural studies, film and media studies, history and sociology, and women studies, and are representative of many theoretical positions, hermeneutic, historical, structuralist, feminist, postmodernist. They deal with representations and discursifications of the body in a broad array of texts, in literature, the visual arts, theater, the performing arts, film and mass media, science and technology, as well as in various cultural practices.
What will it take to achieve gender equality in our lifetime? This is the question that kicks off a curious and winding learning journey in How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women. Maureen Devine-Ahl explores inspiring stories, cautionary tales, and takeaway lessons from around the world on what it will take to build a more gender-balanced future, and, in doing so, quickly learns that empowering women empowers humanity. By identifying four key areas of influence for women across the globe, Make the Matriarchy serves as a valuable source of wisdom, wit, and enlightenment for anyone curious about how we break through the remaining barriers to equality, and build a better society for us all. Not only does Devine-Ahl highlight the power and potential of building an inclusive society with women at the helm, she also provides ways in which all of us can support this endeavor in our every day lives. Make the Matriarchy is more than a rallying cry, it is a hymn of hope.
In this hilarious road story, Edith and Dixie - daughter and mother - are en route from Vancouver to small-town Manitoba. Uptight Edith and carefree Dixie are at odds - Dixie endures Edith's cynicism while Edith barely tolerates her mother's open-minded indiscretions. Their picaresque adventures intersect with the lives of an amusing group of characters including an impertinent waitress, an amorous travelling salesman, a cross-dresser, and a road-weary musician. The underlying current is warmth and affection as both women arrive at an understanding of their own and each other's impulses, and Dixie re-asserts that Edith is indeed the Cadillac kind."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the early twentieth century. Maureen Fitzgerald argues that their championing of the rights of the poor—especially poor women—resulted in an explosion of state-supported services and programs. Parting from Protestant belief in meager and means-tested aid, Irish Catholic nuns argued for an approach based on compassion for the poor. Fitzgerald positions the nuns' activism as resistance to Protestantism's cultural hegemony. As she shows, Roman Catholic nuns offered strong and unequivocal moral leadership in condemning those who punished the poor for their poverty and unmarried women for sexual transgression. Fitzgerald also delves into the nuns' own communities, from the class-based hierarchies within the convents to the political power they wielded within the city. That power, amplified by an alliance with the local Irish Catholic political machine, allowed the women to expand public charities in the city on an unprecedented scale.
God is mercy itself! Maureen McHeffey takes us on an artful and delightful journey with a passage from Sacred Scripture on one end and a quote from St. Faustina's Diary on the other. Each poem is situated in between as a beautiful lyric that carries us progressively deeper into the well of God's mercy. Read on. You will be richly rewarded! --Monsignor Joseph Chapel Adjunct Professor of Moral Theology, Seton Hall University Drawing on Scripture and the Diary of St. Faustina, these inspiring poems lead us on a quiet path where we may be drawn into grateful prayer, as we meditate on God's merciful and lavish love for us. --Dianne M. Traflet, JD, STD Associate Dean, Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology Author, St. Edith Stein: A Spiritual Portrait Like swine over a cliffside Towards their own death they run In a stampede to their mortality In this rat race of mankind Towards pride Towards pleasure Towards never enough As the devil stands by And delights in his works. And the Lord looks on And He calls them and calls them But so few turn their heads So very few leave the herd. But those who do find peace They find healing and comfort The weary find rest Under His watchful Eye --an excerpt taken from "The Herd" Channels of Mercy: Divine Mercy in Poetry is the author's debut collection of poetry written about God's gift of Divine Mercy, the many ways in which He desires to give us His mercy, and the opposition we face to receive His mercy. Each poem is paired with scripture and quotes from the Diary of St. Faustina so as to provide an illustrative glimpse into the mystery of Divine Mercy. A portion of all proceeds from the sale of this book will be given to Catholic-based charities.
On November 8, 1965, Days of Our Lives debuted on NBC. The show overcame a rocky beginning to become one of the best-loved and longest running soap operas on daytime television. For 30 years, the story of the show's Horton family has been closely followed by a dedicated audience. Through extensive research, including the first-ever examination of the show's archives, and interviews with cast members, writers, producers and production personnel, the show's history is told here. This reference work provides a complete cast list from the show's debut through 1994, as well as the most comprehensive storyline of the show ever available. Also included are family trees of the show's characters, tracing the often confusing relationships involved in thirty years of developing roles.
Drawing on a major EU-funded research project, this book examines how religious/secular beliefs are formed at school and in the family across different European countries, offering insights into key policy issues concerning the place of religion in the school system and illuminating current debates around religion and multiculturalism.
Inspired by Gods Wisdom is not a book with a beginning, unfolding, and end. It is a book you can open at any page, and there you will find, spelled out, the wisdom and love we may recognize as coming from the spiritual one I call God. Often I have recommended to those who buy or consider this book that they open the pages randomly with a short prayer, believing that there is a message for them there for that day. And many tell me it works for them. Indeed, God has recommended I follow my own recommendation, and sure enough, as I do, God speaks to me too! There is something in the book for everyone and certainly something there for you.
Women earn nearly half of all new PhDs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Why, then, do they occupy a disproportionate number of the junior-level university positions while men occupy 80 percent of the more prestigious jobs? In Academic Careers and the Gender Gap, Maureen Baker draws on candid interviews with male and female scholars, previous research, and her own thirty-eight-year academic career to explain the reasons behind this inequality. She argues that current university priorities and collegial relations often magnify the impact of gendered families and identities and perpetuate the gender gap. Tracing the evolution of university priorities and practices, Baker reveals significant and persistent differences in job security, working hours, rank, salary, job satisfaction, and career length between male and female scholars.
An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial concepts from Critical Realism, Critical Social Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, neuro-, psycho-, socio- and cognitive-linguistic research, to provide critical global educators with a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) framework for self- and negotiated evaluation. Empirical research spanning six years, involving over 500 international teachers, teacher educators, NGO and DEC administrators and academics, traces the personal and professional development of the critical global educator. Analyses of surveys, focus groups and interviews reveal factors which determine development, translating personal transformative learning to professional transaction and transformational political efficacy. Eight recommendations call for urgent conceptual deconstruction, expansion and redefinition, mainstreaming Global Citizenship Education as Sustainable Development. In an increasingly heteroglossic world, this book argues for relevance, for Critical Discourse Studies, if educators mediating and modelling diverse emergent disciplines are to honestly and effectively engage a learner’s consciousness. The Critical Global Educator will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of citizenship, development, global education, sustainability, social justice, human rights and professional development.
This text is an exploration of the interplay between employment and domestic relations within a specific group of young women, which includes single working women without children and working mothers. It is based on actual experiences, as related in interviews, and uses longitudianl data to chart the experience of young adult women living a contradiction between work and family. The text also employs social theory to interpret interview data showing the interdependence of young women as active agents, and the constraints and opportunities of the social structure. The main conclusion is that the social structuring of women as primarily mothers who also work is falling away, but that it is left to individuals to work their way through the contradictory system facing them.
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