Visionary Voices: Women on Power - Softcover

9781879960206: Visionary Voices: Women on Power

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879960206 ISBN 13: 9781879960206

Publisher: Aunt Lute Books, 1992

Conversations with shamans, activists, teachers, artists and healers--a multicultural collection of interviews with women about the complexities of personal and social empowerment, including Deena Metzger, Papusa Molina, Fran Peavey, Barbara Smith, Winona LaDuke and many more.

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About the Author:

Penny Rosenwasser's books include Visionary Voices, Women on Power: Conversations with shamans, activists, teachers, artists and healers, and Voices from a 'Promised Land: ' Palestinian & Israeli peace activists speak their hearts. A life-long heartfelt rabble-rouser for justice, she earned her Ph.D. in Transformative Learning & Change from the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco). Penny is a founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace and former Jewish Caucus Chair of the National Women's Studies Association. She teaches at City College of San Francisco and belongs to Kehilla Synagogue in Oakland, California.

Review:

For a long time women's agendas for social change have been split into two seemingly opposite areas: personal transformation and political activism. Visionary Voices: Women On Power is a collection of interviews in which the base of women's power is examined, breaking down that traditional dichotomy. Visionary Voices is a unique range of women's experience: a former military wife, Academy Award filmmaking, practicing Buddhist, lawyers and bodyworkers, poets and activists. They are white middle class; they're white middle class; they're the children of immigrants; their grandparents were slaves; their homes are on reservations. They are Israeli, Palestinian, and Mexican. Together they offer hopeful dialogue toward global change. Visionary Voices is a significant contribution to women's studies and highly recommended for anyone interested in women's spirituality as well. -- Midwest Book Review

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