A Weave of Women

A Weave of Women

Author: E. M. Broner

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780253203540

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Fifteen women from different lands and cultures share their stories and their lives as they come together in the Old City of Jerusalem.


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Download or read book A Weave of Women written by E. M. Broner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen women from different lands and cultures share their stories and their lives as they come together in the Old City of Jerusalem.


A Southern Weave of Women

A Southern Weave of Women

Author: Linda Tate

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780820318509

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A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context


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Download or read book A Southern Weave of Women written by Linda Tate and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context


The Weave of My Life

The Weave of My Life

Author: Urmila Pawar

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2009-07-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0231520573

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"My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing are organically linked. The weave is similar. It is the weave of pain, suffering, and agony that links us." Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. Forbidden from performing anything but the most undesirable and unsanitary duties, for years Dalits were believed to be racially inferior and polluted by nature and were therefore forced to live in isolated communities. Pawar grew up on the rugged Konkan coast, near Mumbai, where the Mahar Dalits were housed in the center of the village so the upper castes could summon them at any time. As Pawar writes, "the community grew up with a sense of perpetual insecurity, fearing that they could be attacked from all four sides in times of conflict. That is why there has always been a tendency in our people to shrink within ourselves like a tortoise and proceed at a snail's pace." Pawar eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Though she writes in Marathi, she has found fame in all of India. In this frank and intimate memoir, Pawar not only shares her tireless effort to surmount hideous personal tragedy but also conveys the excitement of an awakening consciousness during a time of profound political and social change.


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Download or read book The Weave of My Life written by Urmila Pawar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing are organically linked. The weave is similar. It is the weave of pain, suffering, and agony that links us." Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. Forbidden from performing anything but the most undesirable and unsanitary duties, for years Dalits were believed to be racially inferior and polluted by nature and were therefore forced to live in isolated communities. Pawar grew up on the rugged Konkan coast, near Mumbai, where the Mahar Dalits were housed in the center of the village so the upper castes could summon them at any time. As Pawar writes, "the community grew up with a sense of perpetual insecurity, fearing that they could be attacked from all four sides in times of conflict. That is why there has always been a tendency in our people to shrink within ourselves like a tortoise and proceed at a snail's pace." Pawar eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Though she writes in Marathi, she has found fame in all of India. In this frank and intimate memoir, Pawar not only shares her tireless effort to surmount hideous personal tragedy but also conveys the excitement of an awakening consciousness during a time of profound political and social change.


הגדה של נשים

הגדה של נשים

Author: E. M. Broner

Publisher: Harper San Francisco

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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magazine in 1977, this celebration of women's history has been photocopied and shared by thousands of women. An original, scholarly, and poetic work--a woman's telling of the Passover story--it is the heart of the Seder in Broner's acclaimed book The Telling.


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Download or read book הגדה של נשים written by E. M. Broner and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: magazine in 1977, this celebration of women's history has been photocopied and shared by thousands of women. An original, scholarly, and poetic work--a woman's telling of the Passover story--it is the heart of the Seder in Broner's acclaimed book The Telling.


The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

Author: Sorrel Kerbel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-23

Total Pages: 1716

ISBN-13: 1135456062

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Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.


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Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century written by Sorrel Kerbel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 1716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.


Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Author: Miriam Wallraven

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1317581393

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Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This material, which has never been analysed in a literary context, covers influential movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality. Wallraven engages with the question of how literature functions as the medium for creating occult worlds and powerful identities, particularly the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. Based on the concept of ancient wisdom, the occult in literature also incorporates topical discourses of the twentieth century, including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology. Hence, as an ever-evolving discursive universe, it presents alternatives to religious truth claims that often lead to various forms of fundamentalism that we encounter today. This book offers a ground-breaking approach to interpreting the forms and functions of occult texts for scholars and students of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.


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Download or read book Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture written by Miriam Wallraven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This material, which has never been analysed in a literary context, covers influential movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality. Wallraven engages with the question of how literature functions as the medium for creating occult worlds and powerful identities, particularly the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. Based on the concept of ancient wisdom, the occult in literature also incorporates topical discourses of the twentieth century, including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology. Hence, as an ever-evolving discursive universe, it presents alternatives to religious truth claims that often lead to various forms of fundamentalism that we encounter today. This book offers a ground-breaking approach to interpreting the forms and functions of occult texts for scholars and students of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.


The Jewish Woman's Book of Wisdom

The Jewish Woman's Book of Wisdom

Author: Ellen Jaffe-Gill

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781559724807

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Prominent Jewish women throughout the ages speak out on Jewish identity, family, God, feminism, and life, offering wisdom to savor and pass on to the next generation. Illustrations.


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Download or read book The Jewish Woman's Book of Wisdom written by Ellen Jaffe-Gill and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent Jewish women throughout the ages speak out on Jewish identity, family, God, feminism, and life, offering wisdom to savor and pass on to the next generation. Illustrations.


Weaving the Word

Weaving the Word

Author: Kathryn Sullivan Kruger

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781575910529

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"Through an analysis of specific weaving stories, the difference between a text and a textile becomes blurred. Such stories portray women weavers transforming their domestic activity of making textiles into one of making texts by inscribing their cloth with both personal and political messages."--BOOK JACKET.


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Download or read book Weaving the Word written by Kathryn Sullivan Kruger and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through an analysis of specific weaving stories, the difference between a text and a textile becomes blurred. Such stories portray women weavers transforming their domestic activity of making textiles into one of making texts by inscribing their cloth with both personal and political messages."--BOOK JACKET.


Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960

Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960

Author: Gloria Chuku

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-12-30

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1135469407

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This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro.


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Download or read book Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960 written by Gloria Chuku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro.


Employment of Women in the Early Postwar Period with Background of Prewar and War Data

Employment of Women in the Early Postwar Period with Background of Prewar and War Data

Author: Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon

Publisher:

Published: 1946

Total Pages: 1354

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Employment of Women in the Early Postwar Period with Background of Prewar and War Data written by Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: