"Revelations of Divine Love" is a text of Julian of Norwich's dream visions that she had when she was near death. Then, after being miraculously healed, Julian of Norwich dedicated the rest of her life to writing her series of sixteen visions for all to read and understand. During her life, Norwich had suffered through three different bouts of the Black Death. Julian of Norwich remained optimistic in her faith, though; she denied that the plagues...

Susan J. Brison is the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values and Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. A powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of trauma On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but...

Herland (1915) is a utopian novel by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland was originally published in The Forerunner, a monthly magazine edited by Gilman, before going out of print for the next several decades. The novel was republished with an influential introduction by scholar Ann J. Lane in 1979 and has since been recognized as an important work of science fiction written by a leading feminist of the early twentieth century. A...

American author, critic, newspaper man, and iconoclast, H. L. Mencken maintained that women are smarter than men and cited numerous examples of the female's overwhelming skill and cunning to support his position. Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today's readers, including monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates. Written...

It all started with an R.H. King Collegiate class of '61 reunion: 26 women meeting 30 years after their graduation. Siggins was struck by their wide range of fascinating life stories. These, after all, were the women who were born during the war, had come of age in the '60s, and were changed by the women's movement of the '70s. They had all stood at the forefront of one of the greatest revolutions in history — the emancipation of half the

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La reflexión sobre la condición femenina es urgente en nuestro tiempo. Nunca hasta hoy hemos estado más cerca de comprender la igualdad de valor entre los sexos. Y nunca nos hemos encontrado más alejados y confundidos, al convivir en una cultura que niega el valor de la diferencia. Precisamente en esto reside la paradoja de nuestro mundo. Nuestro tiempo acelerado, obsesionado en "hacer cosas útiles", mina la disposición femenina a la acogida...

Our goal in writing this book was to share our "path to leadership" curriculum with young people worldwide-particularly young women-who have dreams they hope to achieve. We especially wanted to reach out to the many young people who didn't have the chance to attend an iLive2Lead Summit. Don't let your dreams die! In these pages, we have laid out the steps toward actualizing a full-fledged project. We've shown how we developed our program and shared...

Hoje em dia as mulheres estão em toda parte: nas empresas, nas universidades e também na política (hoje, uma mulher dirige nossa nação). O livro faz um percurso da discriminação que as mulheres sofreram através dos tempos e como os avanços na luta por seus direitos têm transformado nossa sociedade.

I recently found out something about my daughter that as a father I should have known. As the father I believed myself to be I should have found out. It's not important what I found out what is important is that I realized that as close as I felt I was to my daughter there were somethings I did not know. I discovered other fathers in my cohort felt the same way. I am not saying that fathers should snoop. Frankly, the answers to some of these questions...