Sisters Listening to Sisters: Women of the World Share Stories of Personal Empowerment

by Peggy Andrews

Overview

Drawing from her travels in 26 countries, Andrews presents a compelling picture of the universality of women's struggle for empowerment. Andrews has collected stories about the most serious issues in women's consciousness-raising. Among the stories are discussions of the value of women's work, violence against women's bodies, women in the Presbyterian ministry, sexual harassment, and women's peace movements. These stories from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States tell us of women of varied backgrounds—rural villagers and urban squatters, street vendors and factory workers, professional and office workers, married and single mothers, school girls and college students. Andrews brings these stories together and shows us how women in the United States are a part of the world-wide struggle for women's economic, political, social, and cultural empowerment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897894760
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/21/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)
Lexile:	1100L (what's this?)

About the Author

PEGGY ANDREWS is a professional jourbanalist and writing instructor./e She is a former adjunct faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado, in education

m College, in women's studies, economics, psychology, and sociology and a full time professor at David Livingstone College in Zambia, in education and English. She has been guest lecturer at the University of Los Angeles in sociology, and has traveled, lived, and studied in twenty-seven countries.

Table of Contents

Preface
Women Empowering Women
Women Empowering Women Economically
How It All Works
Working Together: Stories from Africa
Women's Work Is Never Ending: Stories from Asia
Work that Oppresses: Stories from Latin America
Women and Unions: Stories from the United States
Politics and Women Do Mix
Voting Is Not Enough
Women of Courage: Stories from Africa
Women Crossing the Line for Peace: Stories from Asia
Women and Revolution: Stories from Latin America and the Caribbean
Working for Peace in Many Ways: Stories from the United States
Our Bodies Are Our Own
Violence Against Women
Female Genital Mutilation: Stories from Africa
Children Are Becoming the Choice of Men: Stories from Asia
Men's Honor—Women's Lives: Stories from Latin America
Home and Work—Violence Is There: Stories from the United States
Religions: Oppressive or Liberating?
Women's Deep Spirituality
Evil Death Spirit: Stories from Africa
Expressing Their Spirituality: Stories from Asia
Spirituality Is Their Liberation: Stories from Latin America
The Church Rules on Sexuality: Stories from the United States
Still Moving Forward
Selected Bibliography
Index