Research Catalog

Title

On second thought : scholarly women reflect on profession, community, and purpose / edited by Luisa Del Giudice.

Publication

• Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Del Giudice, Luisa

Description

viii, 352 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"In her introduction, Luisa Del Giudice refers to this collection of reflections from scholarly women as "a convocation of wise women" and discusses wisdom as something not dichotomous from knowledge but emerging from the integration of the pursuit of knowledge with the pursuit of spiritual truth. Seeking purpose is an alternative way to characterize the reflexive examination of careers and personal direction that this collection captures. The editor notes that such life review is most frequently associated with the later, second half of life, as is wisdom traditionally, and it often entails an effort to integrate career and profession within a meaningful whole life, including its personal and spiritual aspects. The authors thus frequently look back and a substantial element of memoir infuses the collection. It is also grounded, though, in presence, in focused awareness of self that might reveal existential meaning. Several of the contributing authors to this work, including the editor, have careers that frequently touch on matters of spirituality, whether as scholars of folklore, belief, and religion or as professional practitioners of varying religious traditions. The book is interdisciplinary may have a place among or interest to a wide variety of genres and disciplines, including academic memoirs, feminist writings, religious studies, women's studies, folklore studies, ethnography, sociology, and ethnic (especially Italian American, which a majority of the contributors are) studies"--Provided by publisher.

Alternative Title

Scholarly women reflect on profession, community, and purpose

Subject

• Women scholars
• Women scholars > Religious life
• Work-life balance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : a convocation of wise women and reflections on lives of learning / Luisa Del Giudice -- Bridging the spiritual and the political : my scholarly becoming / Edvige Giunta -- Becoming storied / Christine Zinni -- Walking between the worlds : reflections on a life of scholarship / Sabina Magliocco -- Predestination? / Mary Ellen Brown -- Making dead bones sing : practicing ethnography in the Italian diaspora / Luisa del Giudice -- Chicana art historian at the crossroads / Charlene Villaseñor Black -- When I'm tired of walking, I fly / Karen Guancione -- Rising and falling and rising / Jennifer Guglielmo -- Repining restlessness / Joanne Leslie -- Finding my female Zen ancestors : is there such a thing as a woman? / Grace Shireson -- The arc of becoming / Willow Young -- Sacred medicine : my healing (r)evolution / Annalisa Pastore -- The ground I stand on / Lauren Vitiello.

Call Number

JFE 17-8496

ISBN

• 9781607815358
• 1607815354

LCCN

2016040294

OCLC

957704701

Title

On second thought : scholarly women reflect on profession, community, and purpose / edited by Luisa Del Giudice.

Publisher

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Del Giudice, Luisa, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-8496