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This study articulates the distinctive moral character of the Afro-American women's community. Beginning with a reconstructive history of the Afro-American woman's situation in America, Katie G. Cannon goes on to trace the emergence of the Black woman's literary tradition and explain its importance in expressing the moral wisdom of Black women. The life and work of Zora Neale Hurston are examined in detail for her unique contributions to the moral tradition of the Afro-American woman. A final chapter initiates a promising exchange between the works of Hurston and those of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Only Dare Enter If You Talk Fancy.......2006-12-06
This work came out of a session at the 1987 annual conference of the Modern Languages Association - MLA. The session organizers (the editors of these essays) putting on the "Working-Class Women in Academia" hoped for "an engaged audience". The response was a bit more than engaged: a packed house, non-stop questions and an ending that was more a bouncer announcing "last call" than the usual polite clapping and then off to the next session.
It took 6 years to put these questions, responses, more questions and some solutions into print. There are 20 essays here taking various literary forms written by women from working class backgrounds who have also taught working class women.
Each essay is followed by a bibliography and there is a more general 5 page bibliography at the end. The index, though, is too slim - 3 pages- for such an important book. Since much of the essays are about different aspects of writing I expected to see many references to writing in its various forms in the index but did not. Nor did I find Mennonite, Marxist theory, names of academic institutions mentioned or specific ethnic groups. But given the unique contribution this set of essays makes to the literature, this is really a minimal complaint. At the very end, the authors, their affiliations and important works are listed.
Personally I felt like I have finally found the rule book for a game I`ve been playing for years. The essayists don't mention much about the need to keep grades up to maintain a scholarship in order to remain in the undergraduate academy but this is what fueled my entire choice of classes - taking only those I knew I would do well in. And quickly, within one week, at my private liberal arts college I knew my major better not include writing. The required freshman English seminar was about four white women poets - all suicides. How these 18 year olds could have so much to say in such elegant ways about grievous mental illness and literature boggled my mind. I had gotten into this college on the scholarship ticket of "poor foster kid that might be smart enough because she graduated high school at 16 and didn't do too bad on her SATs". But there was no way I was going to be able to compete against these hyper-articulates...so it was off to the math department. Chemistry and math had always been my strengths so I enjoyed my choice which subsequently opened doors for me in industry where I eventually did learn to write `the right' way.
But yet I was cheated out of fully exploring the college's history and economic offerings which I was extremely interested in. I had been reading fairly deep stuff since I was 12 and would have loved to finally have a place to discuss some of these readings - but the inability to write the way the academy wanted me to locked me out - never mind the way I spoke. By the time I could have figured out how to put my comments or question into "the king's English" my turn would have been long gone.
This set of essays says a great deal - in different ways - about the automatic rejection of the working woman's true voice and writing style in academia. And then what this does to the woman learning and the cost to the academy. The essays also describe the costs extracted from these women who finally learn to write `academically' and then begin pursuit of a PhD in the liberal arts - particularly in English and Sociology. And then the added work only they endure once reaching the exalted towers in academia.
One would think that this book and others like it would be causing a flurry of committees convening, faculty senates engaging in truth-telling and so on, but it turns out that's far from the truth. Sharon O'Dair does an exquisite job at explaining that academics are actually in serious competition with the working class. Both academics and the underclass depend on subsidies from the government which in turn depends on the taxes of the working class. And to add injury to insult, in the `70s the academy began ascribing the source of all the `isms to the working class - biting the hand that has been feeding them....
Who woulda thought.
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"Both evangelicalism and feminism are controversial movements that provoke complex loyalties and ambivalence within the church and the world at large. In spite of a considerable degree of shared history, they are quite often defined against each other. Most of the rhetoric from and about the movements assumes that there are few connections and little overlap, and that individuals might locate themselves within one or the other, but not within both. Yet some evangelical women in the academy find themselves living on the boundary between feminism and evangelicalism, or on the boundaries between the multiple forms of both feminism and evangelicalism."--from the first chapterWhat happens when evangelicalism meets feminism?In their own biblical and theological training, Nicola Creegan and Christine Pohl have each lived at the intersection of these two movements They now both teach in Christian institutions of higher education where others follow along a similar pathway. They have a story to tell about their experience along with those of ninety other women they surveyed who have lived on the boundary between evangelicalism and feminism. They explore what it was like for evangelical women who pursued doctorates in biblical and theological studies. What were their experiences as they taught and wrote, were mentored and became mentors? What are the theological issues they faced, and how did they respond? How have they negotiated professional, family and church commitments? This well-informed, multidimensional and sensitive narrative of women's experience will be illuminating for anyone involved in the academic theological world.
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Boundary or Creative Space?.......2006-05-29
This book is a constructive and positive investigation of the issues faced by women in institutional life and the church itself. It also puts many questions to the institutions women work in. Further, the overarching paradigm is evangelical - a tradition within which feminism is seen by many as one of the enemies. But Pohl and Hoggard Creegan challenge the idea that these are opposing world-views while retaining a critical distinction that avoids having feminism set the agenda. It is a generous and balanced consideration, able to identify and critique what is shared and what separates. The experiences recounted by fellow women academics show that the issues they adress are lived ones for those affected. Further, a definite theology emerges: one of trust in a faithful loving God as the ground of Christian life lived for others, for the creation, and for an ontologically coherent self. The book is a true example of the 'generous orthodoxy' invoked by the authors themselves.
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Organising Feminisms: The Micropolitics of the Academy (Women's Studies at York)
Louise Morley
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This interdisciplinary study of feminism, equity and change in the academy attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy. Based on interviews with forty feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece, the book consists of feminist readings of the micro-processes of everyday practices. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of new right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism.
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This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color--women of African, Native American, Latina, East Indian, Korean and Japanese descent--as students pursuing terminal degrees and as faculty members navigating the Academy, grappling with the dilemmas encountered by others and themselves as they exist at the intersections of their work and identities.
Women of color are frequently relegated--on account both of race and womanhood--into monolithic categories that perpetuate oppression, subdue and suppress conflict, and silence voices. This book uses critical race feminism (CRF) to place women of color in the center, rather than the margins, of the discussion, theorizing, research and praxis of their lives as they co-exist in the dominant culture.
The first part of the book addresses the issues faced on the way to achieving a terminal degree: the struggles encountered and the lessons learned along the way. Part Two, "Pride and Prejudice: Finding Your Place After the Degree" describes the complexity of lives of women with multiple identities as scholars with family, friends, and lives at home and at work. The book concludes with the voices of senior faculty sharing their journeys and their paths to growth as scholars and individuals.
This book is for all women of color growing up in the academy, learning to stand on their own, taking first steps, mastering the language, walking, running, falling and getting up to run again--and illuminates the process of self-definition that is essential to their growth as scholars and individuals.
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A Feminist Perspective in the Academy: The Difference It Makes
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The advent of women's studies has brought a feminist perspective into the academy—but has it made a difference there? Has it transformed our curriculum; has it reshaped our materials; has it altered our knowledge?
In the essays collected here, nine distinguished scholars provide an overview of the differences the feminist perspective makes—and could make—in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Carefully documented and judiciously critical, these essays inform the reader about developments in feminist scholarship in literary criticism, the performing arts, religion, history, political science, economics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. The authors point out achievements of lasting value and indicate how these might become an integral part of the various disciplines.
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Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions (American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism Series)
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This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality. The contributors, using modern critical methods such as feminist theory, poststructuralism, and the new historicisms, examine how the ideas in these texts are being reworked in different religious traditions. The volume encompasses both contemporary and historical contexts, tracing the roles, actions, writings, and beliefs of women in pre-Christian, Christian, Islamic, indigenous, and neo-pagan contexts. The book builds on three decades of feminist research into such areas as goddess worship, indigenous spiritualities, eco-feminism, biblical hermeneutics, Christian and Islamic mysticism, subversive poetics, and mythological systems inside and outside the mainstream.
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Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy
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Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations challenges the static figuring of feminist generations that positions the second wave of feminist scholars against a homogeneous third wave. Based on life stories from contemporary feminist scholars, this volume emphasizes how feminism develops unevenly over time and across institutions and, ultimately, offers a new paradigm for theorizing the intersections between generations and feminist waves of thought.
Contributors: Sam Bullington, U of Missouri; Susan Cahn, SUNY Buffalo; Dawn Rae Davis, U of Minnesota; Lisa J. Disch, U of Minnesota; Sara Evans, U of Minnesota; Elizabeth Faue, Wayne State U; Roderick A. Ferguson, U of Minnesota; Peter Hennen, Ohio State U at Newark; Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M U; Toni McNaron, U of Minnesota; Jean M. O’Brien, U of Minnesota; Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, U of California, Santa Cruz; Anne Firor Scott, Duke U; Janet D. Spector, U of Minnesota; Amanda Lock Swarr, U of Washington, Seattle; Miglena Todorova, U of Minnesota.
Hokulani K. Aikau is assistant professor of indigenous politics in the department of political science at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Karla A. Erickson is assistant professor of sociology at Grinnell College. Jennifer L. Pierce is associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota.
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Anti-feminism in the Academy
Veve Clark
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Contending that the anti-feminist backlash in the academy is part of the broader "politically correct" rhetoric, Shirley Nelson Garner, Veve A. Clark and and Margaret R. Higonnet have gathered together a collection of writers, academics and activists to challenge the rising tide of insults and insinuation and spoken violence in academia. With the classroom's climate increasingly chilly for women,
Antifeminism in the Academia is a much-needed response to the assault on feminist thinkers, critics and academics.
Offering a spirited response to the wave of tenure disputes, departmental fights and flights, the contributors examine the imaginary construction of feminist "threats" by those seeking to undermine and denigrate the role of women in the academy. The contributors explore possible reponses, actions and remedies, as well as carefully exploring the roots of the backlash against women. Full of resourceful guidance for department chairs, faculty, students and the general reader,
Antifeminism in the Academy is a combative tool against the onslaught of anti-feminist harrassment.
Contributors: Dale Baner, Mary Wilson Carpenter, Moira Ferguson, Greta Gaard, Shirley Nelson Garner, Elaine Ginsberg, Ketu H. Katrak, Annette Kolodny, Sara Lennox, Valerie Miner, Patricia Williams.
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A must-read for professors-to-be.......2000-04-06
This book is a worthwhile read because it clearly and convincingly documents covert and overt attempts to silence feminist voices on college campuses. The book reveals the presence of Antifeminist Intellectual Harassment in the history of feminist activism, campus politics, and academic sites of power. This unambiguous, engaging text presents a history of the feminist and antifeminist movements and places them within the context of the university. For this valuable insight into academic life, the editors and chapter authors deserve abundant acclaim.
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Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings (American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism, No 1)
Katharina von Kellenbach
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This work is the first comprehensive study of anti-Judaism in feminist religious writings. Katharina von Kellenbach provides a critical evaluation of how Judaism has been depicted in major American and West German feminist theologies, including the writings of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carol Christ, and Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel. Applying Foucault's categories of discursive practice, von Kellenbach demonstrates that feminist theologians portray Judaism negatively in comparison to Christianity and paganism, identify it as the source of patriarchy, and render it invisible as a religious alternative after the rise of Christianity. This book calls on feminist theologians to combat the pervasive tradition of Christian anti-Judaism.
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Searching for a Better Feminism.......2001-06-10
If you are looking for a condemnation of feminist readings of the Hebrew bible, this book ain't for you. Make no mistake, the author is an ardent feminist. Where this book is a masterwork of criticism is in how it shows how anti-Jewish theology, sometimes centuries old, has innervated modern feminist analysis of the bible. The book starts with an introduction that makes the book worthwhile for any student of German or Jewish history, where the author describes her discovery of the atrocities committed by an older relative, and how the family sought to deny it. This watershed moment triggers her re-evaluation of her studies, and her discover of the insipid anti-Semitism that fills the work of many biblical scholars who work in the feminist arena. Goddess theology, views of Israelite religion, Christian feminism, these and more pass through von Kellenbach's filters. This book is the record of her search for a better feminist view of the Hebrew bible and a more accurate view of the Ancient Near East that incubated it. She does not seek to deny feminist readings, rather, she brings to light the flaws of scholarship that anti-Judaism has brought to such readings. The book is a work of literary scholarship, and is not in the "for dummies" format, so it is less than perfectly accessible. Some knowledge of the field of secular biblical scholarship and feminist thought is needed to understand some of the more complex points. Overall, the book addresses a serious issue in biblical scholarship, and it bridges many areas of study. If you are looking for either exultation or condemnation of Feminist views on bible, you have the wrong book. If you want to take the next step in your study of modern biblical scholarship, or you seek to build a better feminism, then this book is for you.
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