This is a handsome and big book, qualifying for ”coffee table“ status, but it also a wonderful collection of stunning photos and wise words of women who work with a passion for social change. Nebenzahl and Ackerman travelled the world finding the answers from each woman to their question: Why do they care enough to dedicate their lives to helping other? The answers are diverse but they found a common thread: “That activist women often come to their work out of sadness and despair, because of personal loss, but sometimes simply out of deep Read more [...] Tag Archives: Raincoast Books Canada
Nebenzahl, Donna and Nance Ackerman. WOMANKIND: Faces of Change Throughout the World. 2003, Raincoast Books, Vancouver BC.
This is a handsome and big book, qualifying for ”coffee table“ status, but it also a wonderful collection of stunning photos and wise words of women who work with a passion for social change. Nebenzahl and Ackerman travelled the world finding the answers from each woman to their question: Why do they care enough to dedicate their lives to helping other? The answers are diverse but they found a common thread: “That activist women often come to their work out of sadness and despair, because of personal loss, but sometimes simply out of deep Read more [...] Comments Off on Nebenzahl, Donna and Nance Ackerman. WOMANKIND: Faces of Change Throughout the World. 2003, Raincoast Books, Vancouver BC.
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Hawthorne, Susan & Bronwyn Winter eds. After Shock: September 11, 2001 / Global Feminist Perspectives. 2003. Raincoast Books, Vancouver, BC.
“There are a hundred ways to be a good citizen, and one of them is to look, finally, at things we don't want to see.”
Barbara Kingsolver in After Shock
This volume was originally published as SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives in 2002 by Spinifex Press of Australia. It has lost none of its importance or relevance in the last two years. The words of women on the evils of violence are prophetic as we see in horror the war of occupation in Iraq, the increase repression in Palestine and the fallout of USA militarism everywhere – including Read more [...]
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