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Faith and Feminism

Why do so many women of faith have such a strong aversion to feminism? And why do so many feminists have an ardent mistrust of religion? These questions are at the heart of Helen Hunt's illuminating look at the alliance between spiritual conviction and social action. Intelligent and heartfelt, Faith and Feminism offers a perceptive look at the lives of five spirited and spiritual women of history, women who combined their undying faith with feminist beliefs and who made the world a better place by doing so.
A remarkable book that focuses on the idea that spirituality and feminism are really different expressions of the same impulse to make life more whole, Faith and Feminism offers a powerful catalyst for reflecting on our sense of self and for living and loving according to our deepest values.
Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance by Helen Hunt
ISBN: 0743483723

The Psychological Development of Girls and Women

In this book, Sheila Greene presents a challenging new perspective on the psychological development of girls and women that emphasizes the central role of time in human development. Greene critically reviews traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches-ranging from orthodox psychoanalysis to relational and post-modern theories-and argues that even those claiming to be focused on development have presented a view of women's lives as fixed and determined by their nature or their past. These theories, she believes, should be rejected because of their inherent lack of validity and their frequently oppressive implications for women.
Sheila Greene's approach places primary importance on temporality itself and on the competing discourses on time, age and development that play an active role in the construction of the lives of girls and women. Essential but often neglected insights from the more compelling developmental and feminist theories are woven together within a theoretical framework that emphasizes temporality, emergence and human agency. The result is a liberating theory of women's psychological development as constantly emerging and changing in time rather than as static and fixed by their nature, socio-cultural context and personal history.
Psychological Development in Girls and Women will be essential reading for students and researchers in the psychology of women, developmental psychology and women's studies.
The Psychological Development of Girls and Women: Rethinking Change in Time by Sheila Greene
ISBN: 0415178622

Feminist Family Therapy

Feminist Family Therapy offers case-based discussions that address race, gender, and class as they effect the personal problems of individual families. While keeping an explicit focus on clinical work, this volume highlights power differentials in families and larger systems.
Notable authors examine family issues such as couple intimacy, divorce, migration, lesbian mother families, and parent-child conflict. This book is sure to inspire therapists who have been working with an individual focus to include feminist-family-therapy in their work. It will also contribute to the continuing development of feminist theory and practice in family therapy.
Louise B. Silverstein, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, where she has taught courses in family therapy and the social construction of gender since 1992. Dr. Silverstein is a past president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Family Psychology and is also a family therapist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York.
Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Social Context by Louise B. Silverstein
ISBN: 1591470218

The Curious Feminist

In this collection of lively essays, Cynthia Enloe makes better sense of globalization and international politics by taking a deep and personal look into the daily realities in a range of women's lives. Enloe proposes a distinctively feminist curiosity that begins with taking women seriously, especially during this era of unprecedented American influence. This means listening carefully, digging deep, challenging assumptions, and welcoming surprises.
Listening to women in Asian sneaker factories, Cynthia Enloe reveals, enables us to bring down to earth the often abstract discussions of the global economy. Paying close attention to Iraqi women's organizing efforts under military occupation exposes the false global promises made by officials. Cynthia Enloe also turns the beam of her inquiry inward. In a series of four candid interviews and a new set of autobiographical pieces, she reflects on the gradual development of her own feminist curiosity. Describing her wartime suburban girlhood and her years at Berkeley, she maps the everyday obstacles placed on the path to feminist consciousness, and suggests how those obstacles can be identified and overcome.
The Curious Feminist shows how taking women seriously also challenges the common assumption that masculinities are trivial factors in today's international affairs. Cynthia Enloe explores the workings of masculinity inside organizations as diverse as the American military, a Serbian militia, the UN, and Oxfam. A feminist curiosity finds all women worth thinking about, Enloe claims. She suggests that we pay thoughtful attention to women who appear complicit in violence or in the oppression of others, or too cozily wrapped up in their relative privilege to inspire praise or compassion. Cynthia Enloe's vitality, passion, and incisive wit illuminate each essay. The Curious Feminist is an original and timely invitation to look at global politics in an entirely different way.
The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire by Cynthia Enloe
ISBN: 0520243811