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Title

Women imagine change : a global anthology of women's resistance from 600 B.C.E. to present / edited by Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, and Jean F. O'Barr.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• DeLamotte, Eugenia C.
• Meeker, Natania
• O'Barr, Jean F.

Description

xxxiii, 518 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

A collection of the words of women spaning some 26 centuries from every corner of the earth and from many cultures.

Subject

• Literature > Women authors
• Women and literature
• Feminism and literature
• Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Sexuality, spirituality, and power / Eugenia C. DeLamotte -- A martyr's vision / Vibia Perpetua -- Chastity and spiritual desire / Margery Kempe -- Three visions / Rebecca Cox Jackson -- "I am free" / Sumangalamata, Nanduttara, Vimala -- "No priest but love" / Anne Lister -- Is making love a sin? / Grazida Lizier -- St. Paul and lesbian sexuality / Carolyn Mobley -- "Encountering the Divine Presence" / Laura Geller -- Jesus as woman, woman as Jesus / Marguerite D'Oingt, Maria Clara Bingemer -- Israel: "a woman in Travail" / Gluckel of Hameln -- The Bodhisattva and the Holy Spirit / Chung Hyun Kyung -- "Fighting the White man's gods" / Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nunez -- Islam and feminism: changing interpretations / Fatima Mernissi, Ghada Samman -- "Sex slavery" / Voltairine De Cleyre -- The good lover / Sei Shonagon -- "The erotic as power" / Audre Lorde -- Feminist theology and female sexuality / Kwok Pui-Lan.
• Work and education / Jean F. O'Barr -- "I had to combine everything" / Domitila Barrios de Chungara -- "I am no scholar" / Atukuri Molla -- "My wisdom is better" / Hipparchia -- "Wearied by your carping" / Laura Cereta -- "Women serving in the palace" / Sei Shonagon -- "The constant action of our lab'ring hands" / Mary Collier -- "My job disappeared when the wall opened" / Maria Curter -- The Purdah bus / Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain -- Planted in a strange earth / Zitkala-Sa -- "Confessions of a closet Baptist" / Mab Segrest -- "Portrait of an African Queen" / Nzinga of Angola -- "The spirit of Caesar in the soul of a woman" / Artemisia Gentileschi -- "I'm beginning to publish" / Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- My story / Binodini Dasi -- "Women as law clerks" / Catherine G. Waugh -- The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee / Jarena Lee -- "The employers were afraid of me" / Carmen Lucia -- "When a doctor is called, she must go" / Nongenile Masithathu Zenani -- "Seeking new paths" / Rosalie Slaughter Morton -- "Capable of nursing" / Mrs. M.D. -- "I did the work and they drew the pay" / Elsie Riddick.
• Representing women, writing the body politic / Natania Meeker -- "Remember it, you will remember it": female poets and the literary tradition / Sappho, Anne Bradstreet, Eavan Boland -- "Till tomorrow, my friend" / Mariama Ba -- Forging intellectual connections / Louise Lave -- "An art of fighting fire with fire and looks with looks" / Michele Le Doeuff -- Revolt against the "habit of obedience" / Abigail Abbot Bailey -- Feminist and national hero / Halide Edib Adivar -- Women, intellect, and imagination: "At large among the stars" / Florence Nightingale -- "How great is the strength of my inclination" / Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz -- Feminism and the question of class / Alexandra Kollontai -- Rewriting resistance / Laila of Shiban-Bakr -- Women's rights and revolution / Olympe De Gouges -- Modernity and the "women of the new Japan" / Hiratsuka Raicho -- "Show what one Chinese woman is able to do" / Soumay Tcheng -- "Liberating women": an Iranian feminist perspective on national identity / Taj Al-Saltana -- "And when you leave, take your pictures with you" / Jo Carrillo -- "Those things I have here refuted" / Christine De Pizan -- A little taste of victory, a hunger in the heart / Zitkala-Sa.
• Identifying sources of resistance / Jean F. O'Barr -- "He is the only boy" / Huda Shaarawi -- "My mother was the smartest Black woman in Eden" / Cornelia -- "I have taken the freedom that is rightfully mine" / Nadezhda "Alexandrov" Durova -- "Acting humanely" / Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz -- Girls' trading expeditions, bond-friends, and marriage / Baba of Karo -- "I shall tell her" / Nannie Stillwell Jackson -- Diverging from traditional marriage customes / Canton Delta Marriage Resisters -- The light speaks / Hildegard of Bingen -- "They say I'm insane" / Bee Miles -- "Unsuited for the conjugal life" / Olympias -- "The name of mistress" / Heloise -- Walking out the gate / Ning Lao T'ai-T'ai -- "Things that I shouldn't write" / Ruby Thompson -- The ideal man / Susan B. Anthony -- "Justice for single women" / Chinese woman -- Taxation without representation / Hortensia -- Feminist agendas in Japan / Kusunose Kita, Mitsui Mariko -- Citizenship and women's right to bear arms / Theroigne De Mericourt -- "We fought all the harder" / Amada Pineda -- "To tell the truth freely" / Ida B. Wells Barnett -- "Brutality to women" / Harriet Martineau -- "Woman alone can free herself" / Margaret Sanger -- "Racism, birth control, and reproductive rights" / Angela Davis -- A life-long friendship / Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony.
• Vision and transformation / Eugenia C. DeLamotte -- "She, too, was an Eastern woman!" / Sayyida Salme Bint Sa'id Ibn Sultan (Emily Ruete) -- A resourceful woman / Kitty Smith -- "But for us it isn't that way" / Domitila Barrios De Chungara -- A feminine side to truth / Anna Julia Cooper -- "A feminist heroine" / Paula Gunn Allen -- "Individuality is more than nationality" / Sui Sin Far -- "Race and class, a personal accounting" / Mab Segrest -- "La Guera" / Cherrie Moraga -- "Stiwanism: feminism in an African context" / Molara Ogundipe-Leslie -- A pregnant woman's craving / Gluckel of Hameln -- Women's speaking justified / Margaret Fell -- On woman's "two-finger intelligence" / Soma -- "To ennoble the mind of woman" / Christine De Pizan -- "It is time to effect a revolution in female manners" / Mary Wollstonecraft -- "The faithful support of your argument" / Ednah Dow Littlehale, Caroline Wells Healy -- "Why blame women?" / Tarabai Shinde -- Working women petition the king / Women of the Third Estate -- "Promoting women's rights" / Qiu Jin (Ch'iu Chin) -- "To put it into practice" / Luisa Capetillo -- "Global framework" of the Platform for Action / United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China.

ISBN

• 0415915309 (acid-free paper)
• 0415915317 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^97018037^

OCLC

• 37221076
• SCSB-10129844

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library