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Overview
Women's Lifeworlds is a collection of engaging narratives from fifteen women of various age groups, cultures, religions, social and geographical backgrounds. The stories cover the lives of their grandmothers, mothers, daughters, as well as their own testaments, toillustrate the changing meaning of "place" in women's lives over time and across space.
The women--from a Mexican polititican and Muslim psychiatrist to a Finnish housewife and Indian guru--explore the complexity of their perceptions to their own lives and their sources of
strength. This book is a lively challenge to thegeneralized assumptions of how women in various historical and cultural contexts feel about womanhood, life, society, culture and religion.
Synopsis
Women's Lifeworlds explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their own 'lifeworlds' in their own words. Examining the changing meaning of 'place' in women's lives over time and across space, this book questions how women face, negotiate and shape the social space of their environment. Engaging personal narratives are presented by fifteen women of various age groups, from different cultural, religious, social and geographical backgrounds, from Mexican politician, Muslim psychiatrist, Finnish housewife to Indian guru and African rural woman. Writing about the lives of their grandmothers, mothers, themselves, their daughters or other close female relatives, the authors of these life narratives cross generational and cultural divides and share perceptions with each other. This unique inter-generational approach provides an engaging challenge to the generalised assumptions of how women in various historical and cultural contexts feel about womanhood, life, society, culture and religion.
Booknews
Explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their worlds. The 15 contributors<-->from countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe<-->each present the narratives of three or four women in their families, followed by their analysis of the narratives. Generally the narratives cover three generations of the contributor's family, so a wide spectrum of women's experiences both historically and geographically is represented. The book concludes with an essay covering the contributors' findings when they met to compare ideas in October 1994 in Brussels. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.