Writing The Motherline

Author : Leigh M. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing the Motherline written by Leigh M. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this co-edited volume, women educators figuratively gather in "the red tent" (Diamant, 1997) to share stories of the inseparability of what they do as mothers of daughters (and grandmothers of granddaughters) from their work as educators and social activists. By acting and speaking jointly and publicly about their varying "projects" of mothering and educating, this work celebrates mothers' and daughters' strengths and the bonds between them. This work considers the mother-daughter bond through maternal storytelling or narrative and the Motherline. The narratives foreground the theory that a strong mother-daughter connection leads to empowerment, and attempt to link that connection with education as grand/mother-educators and their grand/daughters weave their personal and professional lives into an ever-evolving tapestry. Drawing from a range of feminist theories in action, contributors to this volume offer stories of the Motherlines that illuminate the complexities of these powerful relationships. Using counter-narratives to patriarchal framings of family, this collection affirms the power of women educators telling and reading their stories as a means of self-discovery, empowerment, and, ultimately, cultural transformation.

Author : Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Publisher : Fisher King Press
ISBN 13 : 0981034462
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Motherline written by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1992, under the title: Stories from the motherline.

Author : Suzy McKee Charnas
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466821159
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherlines written by Suzy McKee Charnas and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1999-06-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty. It started with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning. It continued with Motherlines, where Alldera the Runner is a fugitive among the Riding Women, who live a tribal life of horse-thieving and storytelling, killing the few men who approach their boundaries. The books that finish Alldera's story, The Furies and The Conqueror's Child, are now available. Once you start, you won't want to stop until you've read the last word of the last book. Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Toni C. King
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438436033
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Womanist Leadership written by Toni C. King and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the stories of fourteen Black women scholars, Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline offers a culturally based model of Black women's leadership practices, and examines the mother-daughter transmission of these skills. The personal narratives fit into a storytelling tradition that reveals the ways Black mothers and women of the community—the Motherline—teach girls the "ways women lead." The essays present a range of different practical and theoretical issues of leadership and development, including mother nurture, emulation of and divergence from core values, internalized oppression, self determination, representation of the physical self, guardianship/governance of the body, cooperative economics, activism, contentiousness with or differentiation from the mother, and negotiation of leadership across public and private spheres. Together, they make a compelling argument for the necessity of continuing to teach the cultural and gender-specific resistance to oppression that has been passed along the Motherline, and to adapt this Motherline tradition to the lives and needs of women and girls in the 21st century.

Author : Leigh M. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing the Motherline written by Leigh M. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this co-edited volume, women educators figuratively gather in "the red tent" (Diamant, 1997) to share stories of the inseparability of what they do as mothers of daughters (and grandmothers of granddaughters) from their work as educators and social activists. By acting and speaking jointly and publicly about their varying "projects" of mothering and educating, this work celebrates mothers' and daughters' strengths and the bonds between them. This work considers the mother-daughter bond through maternal storytelling or narrative and the Motherline. The narratives foreground the theory that a strong mother-daughter connection leads to empowerment, and attempt to link that connection with education as grand/mother-educators and their grand/daughters weave their personal and professional lives into an ever-evolving tapestry. Drawing from a range of feminist theories in action, contributors to this volume offer stories of the Motherlines that illuminate the complexities of these powerful relationships. Using counter-narratives to patriarchal framings of family, this collection affirms the power of women educators telling and reading their stories as a means of self-discovery, empowerment, and, ultimately, cultural transformation.

Author : Becca Stevens
Publisher : Harper Horizon
ISBN 13 : 0785241752
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practically Divine written by Becca Stevens and published by Harper Horizon. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we allow ourselves to embrace both ordinary and extraordinary experiences, we can feel the divine anywhere. No matter where we are—on a walk in the woods, in a sacred building, or in a dusty refugee camp—signs of love abound. There is no secret formula to experiencing the sacred in our lives, it just takes practice and practicality. You’re invited to search this path with entrepreneur Becca Stevens as she explores what it means to be practically divine. Woven throughout the narrative are poetry and rants, as well as ruminations on her mother’s wit, wisdom, and passion. In Practically Divine, Becca shares how to live a life that’s practically divine by: Redefining old lies and stories, to learn from the past Appreciating the gifts that come from imperfections or trauma Using creativity to spark new revolutions Accepting the chaos of the unknown before us with courage Sharing in a feast of love, knowing there’s enough mercy and forgiveness Embracing the practically divine compels us to do something, anything, to share in the feast of love together. When we start from wherever we are, we can recognize the potential for humor, wonder, and freedom. Practically Divine teaches you to use your senses to transform information into holy compassion. When we open our hearts to it, we can experience the divine anywhere - like sacred breadcrumbs marking our path.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039386734X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A “powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection” (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award–winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.

Author : Laura Apol
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954442
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fine Yellow Dust written by Laura Apol and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late April 2017, Laura Apol’s twenty-six-year-old daughter, Hanna, took her own life. Apol had long believed in the therapeutic possibilities of writing, having conducted workshops on writing-for-healing for more than a decade. Yet after Hanna’s death, she had her own therapeutic writing to do, turning her anguish, disbelief, and love into poems that map the first year of loss. This collection is the result of that writing, giving voice to grief as it is lived, moment by moment, memory by memory, event by event. While most writing about loss does so from a distance, Apol chooses instead to write from inside those days and months and seasons, allowing readers to experience alongside the poet the moments, the questions, and the deep longings that shape the first grief-year.

Author : Molly Friedrich
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316089125
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You're Not My Real Mother! written by Molly Friedrich and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an adoptive mother tells her daughter all the reasons that she is her "real mother," the young girl realizes that her mother is right, even though they do not look alike.

Author : John Beebe
Publisher : Daimon
ISBN 13 : 3856306285
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy written by John Beebe and published by Daimon. This book was released on 2003 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the 2002 North American Conference of Jungian Analysts and Candidates. These papers address the process of terror as it confronts us in international situations and in outbreaks of violence in homes and schools. The thirteen contributors, seasoned Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, have often faced the reality of undermining destructiveness in their work with clients. Here they offer their theoretical and therapeutic insights, drawing from their experience of the psyche's healing resources to identify the consciousness we need if we are to survive and reverse the contagion of hostility. This book provides an opportunity to learn what can inform the human spirit to prevail over the forces that threaten its integrity and compassion.