Sappho in the Holy Land

Sappho in the Holy Land
Author: Chava Frankfort-Nachmias
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791483908

This unique collection examines the experience of lesbians in Israel, providing insight into some of the institutions that have helped shape that experience. The book analyzes and interprets how culturally specific political, ideological, and social systems construct lesbian identities, experiences, and dilemmas, and it also explores how a specific society is seen, understood, and interpreted from a lesbian perspective. Written by scholars, professionals, and grassroots activists representing different sectors of the Israeli political spectrum, this book provides a broad perspective of the lesbian experience in Israel.

Handbook of International Feminisms

Handbook of International Feminisms
Author: Alexandra Rutherford
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1441998691

The goal of Handbook of International Perspectives on Feminism is to present the histories, status, and contours of feminist research and practice in their respective regional and/or national contexts. The editors have invited researchers who are doing this work to present their perspectives on women, culture, and rights with the objective to illuminate the diverse forms that feminist psychological work takes around the world, and connect these forms with the unique positions and concerns of women in these regions. What does "feminist psychology" look like in Japan? In South Africa? In Sri Lanka? In Canada? In Brazil? How did it come to look this way? How do psychologists in these countries or regions, each with unique political, economic, and cultural histories, engage in feminist work in the societies in which they live? How do they employ the tools of "psychology" – broadly defined – to do this work, and what tensions and challenges have they faced?

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect
Author: Susan Hawthorne
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781876756567

This is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side. This work includes poems on a range of subjects, including death, history, culture physics, and more.

Despair and Deliverance

Despair and Deliverance
Author: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 079149618X

The author examines the varieties of religious and secular salvation that have recently appeared in Israel as evidence for Israelis' willingness to embrace private salvation in the face of immense cultural upheavals. Drawing on interviews, field observations, clinical data, and media reports collected over ten years, he surveys four roads to private salvation: the return to Judaism, new religions (sects or cults), psychotherapy movements such as est, and occultism. These dramatic forms of conversion are unique to Israeli society within the last decade, and Beit-Hallahmi provides a social history and social psychology of this transformation.