Women's Lifeworlds
Women's Lifeworlds is a collection of engaging narratives from fifteen women of various age groups, cultures, religions, social and geographical backgrounds. The stories cover the lives of their grandmothers, mothers, daughters, as well as their own testaments, to\ illustrate the changing meaning of "place" in women's lives over time and across space.\ The women--from a Mexican polititican and Muslim psychiatrist to a Finnish housewife and Indian guru--explore the complexity of their...
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Women's Lifeworlds explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their own 'lifeworlds' in their own words. Examining the changing meaning of 'place' in women's lives over time and across space, this book questions how women face, negotiate and shape the social space of their environment. Engaging personal narratives are presented by fifteen women of various age groups, from different cultural, religious, social and geographical backgrounds, from Mexican politician, Muslim psychiatrist, Finnish housewife to Indian guru and African rural woman. Writing about the lives of their grandmothers, mothers, themselves, their daughters or other close female relatives, the authors of these life narratives cross generational and cultural divides and share perceptions with each other. This unique inter-generational approach provides an engaging challenge to the generalised assumptions of how women in various historical and cultural contexts feel about womanhood, life, society, culture and religion. Booknews Explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their worlds. The 15 contributorsfrom countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europeeach present the narratives of three or four women in their families, followed by their analysis of the narratives. Generally the narratives cover three generations of the contributor's family, so a wide spectrum of women's experiences both historically and geographically is represented. The book concludes with an essay covering the contributors' findings when they met to compare ideas in October 1994 in Brussels. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Notes on contributorsPreface: women's ways of shaping their realitiesAcknowledgements1A Polylogue32Etchings on a Grain of Rice213Changing Faces of Tradition394Women's Work and Fulfilment in a Changing World555The Act of Breathing716Belonging857No Isolation Any More1018Advocating Islamic Rights1119Breaking Culture's Chains12110Defending the Samay13711Travelling in a Green Stone14712Left to Invent the Future15513An Irish Matrilineal Story: A Century of Change16314Subtlety in Perception17715The Sweet and Sour Fruits of Women's Lib18916Giving and Taking Space20717How Women Change Places and Places Change Women221Index249
\ BooknewsExplores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their worlds. The 15 contributors<-->from countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe<-->each present the narratives of three or four women in their families, followed by their analysis of the narratives. Generally the narratives cover three generations of the contributor's family, so a wide spectrum of women's experiences both historically and geographically is represented. The book concludes with an essay covering the contributors' findings when they met to compare ideas in October 1994 in Brussels. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
