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Author | : Carol Schaefer |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0834824175 |
We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. . . . We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. In some Native American societies, tribal leaders consulted a council of grandmothers before making any major decisions that would affect the whole community. What if we consulted our wise women elders about the problems facing our global community today? This book presents the insights and guidance of thirteen indigenous grandmothers from five continents, many of whom are living legends among their own peoples. The Grandmothers offer wisdom on such timely issues as nurturing our families; cultivating physical and mental health; and confronting violence, war, and poverty. Also included are the reflections of Western women elders, including Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Carol Moseley Brown.
Author | : Carol Schaefer |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1590302931 |
We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. . . . We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. In some Native American societies, tribal leaders consulted a council of grandmothers before making any major decisions that would affect the whole community. What if we consulted our wise women elders about the problems facing our global community today? This book presents the insights and guidance of thirteen indigenous grandmothers from five continents, many of whom are living legends among their own peoples. The Grandmothers offer wisdom on such timely issues as nurturing our families; cultivating physical and mental health; and confronting violence, war, and poverty. Also included are the reflections of Western women elders, including Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Carol Moseley Brown.
Author | : Moira Vincentelli |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780813533810 |
This works proposes that a women's tradition in ceramics is one in which pottery making is a gendered activity intimately connected with female identity. The knowledge is passed down from one generation to the next. It guides the reader through these traditions continent by continent. Different areas are illustrated with beautiful, detailed maps and fascinating colour photographs from around the world.
Author | : Caroline Arnold |
Publisher | : Lerner Publications |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1575052423 |
Explains what a settlement house is, describes its role in the lives of poor children who live near it, and tells how the settlement house movement is still being felt today.
Author | : Catherine Gourley |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761328650 |
Profiles nineteenth-century women who overcame the disadvantage of being female in order to change the society in which they lived, by promoting temperance, child labor laws, health care, and other causes.
Author | : Susan Christine Seymour |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1999-01-28 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780521598842 |
Documents the lives of 24 families in India over almost thirty years.
Author | : Maite Conde |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813932130 |
Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. Analyzing an array of literary texts, from journalistic essays and popular women's novels to anarchist treatises and vaudeville plays, the author shows how the writers' encounters with the cinema were consistent with the significant changes taking place in the city. The arrival and initial development of the cinema in Brazil were part of the new urban landscape in which early Brazilian movies not only articulated the processes of the city's modernization but also enabled new urban spectators--women, immigrants, a new working class, and a recently liberated slave population--to see, believe in, and participate in its future. In the process, these early movies challenged the power of the written word and of Brazilian writers, threatening the hegemonic function of writing that had traditionally forged the contours of the nation's cultural life. An emerging market of consumers of the new cultural phenomena--popular theater, the department store, the factory, illustrated magazines--reflected changes that not only modernized literary production but also altered the very life and everyday urban experiences of the population. Consuming Visions is an ambitious and engaging examination of the ways in which mass culture can become an agent of intellectual and aesthetic transformation.
Author | : Aletta Henriette Jacobs |
Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781558611382 |
The remarkable autobiography of one of the founders of modern feminism.
Author | : Christopher Barnatt |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781479242849 |
Human civilization faces more challenges than ever before. Unless urgent action is taken, there will soon be biting shortages of energy, food and fresh water. Climate change also demands our attention, while conventional economic decision making and mass consumerism are leading us to ruin. The time has therefore come to fix the world. This book is for everybody who wants to help shape a better future. Its chapters cover the interrelated topics of more local living, low energy lifestyles, dematerialization, design for repair, crowdsourcing, more women in authority, and the death of economics. Within a decade, all of these will be common cultural or business practice. Seven Ways to Fix the World therefore provides you with the opportunity to understand the rising agendas of tomorrow, and to help make a difference by getting ahead of the curve.
Author | : Elizabeth E. Merritt |
Publisher | : American Alliance of Museums |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781933253015 |
Covering Your Assets: Facilities and Risk Management in Museums offers the very latest data on how professionals around the country operate their facilities, manage space and risk, and prepare for emergencies. In this book, data is broken out by museum discipline, governance type, and parent organization. It also features insightful essays on best practices from outside experts and leading professionals in the field.