Women Imagine Change

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.

Auteur

Eugenia C. DeLamotte is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. Her publications include Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic (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).

Résumé
This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine Change explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality; women's interlinked struggles to control their labor and education; their work reshaping representations of gender; and their varied translations of knowledge into power. Extensive introductions combine a broad theoretical perspective on gender and resistance with vivid biographical context.Not only do the writings show women's resistance from an historical perspective; they also offer crucial insight into questions women are posing today about the relationships between their own power, the power of the various groups to which they belong, and the larger systems of power they confront in the world around them.

Contenu

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)