Words for Women

by Lori Heninger, Lori Heninger (Artist)

Overview

Words for Women is a collection of poems about reclaiming language. From the ancient Greeks' Harpy and Medusa to today's Housewife and Drama Queen, words with negative or sexualized connotations have been assigned to women and pejoratively used by people to diminish women and girls. Words for Women takes those terms and, through the sound, rhythm and intent of poems, demonstrates how they have been used and how they can be reclaimed as part of a journey to equity and wholeness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798989153121
Publisher:	Quillkeepers Press
Publication date:	11/07/2023
Pages:	54
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.11(d)

About the Author

Lori Heninger is a poet and nonprofit executive. Her 30-plus years of experience in US- and internationally-based work has shaped her thinking and writing. She is the author of poems published in The Bangalore Review, The Dillydoun Review and other journals, as well as Managing As Mission: Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change, and a book of poetry for children titled Outside/Inside/Outside. Lori graduated from Columbia University with a Masters in Social Work and from City University with a PhD in Social Welfare. She is the Executive Director of The Montclair Fund for Women, and lives with her husband, two dogs, a cat and six chickens in rural New Jersey, and blows glass as a hobby.

Lori Heninger is a poet and nonprofit executive. Her 30-plus years of experience in US- and internationally-based work has shaped her thinking and writing. She is the author of poems published in The Bangalore Review, The Dillydoun Review and other journals, as well as Managing As Mission: Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change, and a book of poetry for children titled Outside/Inside/Outside. Lori graduated from Columbia University with a Masters in Social Work and from City University with a PhD in Social Welfare. She is the Executive Director of The Montclair Fund for Women, and lives with her husband, two dogs, a cat and six chickens in rural New Jersey, and blows glass as a hobby.