On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, and Purpose

ISBN-13: 9781607815358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str.

Luisa del Giudice

Opis

In these dynamic essays, thirteen wise women review their lives for meaning and purpose, striving to integrate both head and heart. They consider how their spiritual paradigms have shaped their vocations as teachers, scholars, guides, mentors, and advocates and how these roles have been integral to their life's work, not merely to their work life. With courageous and insightful testimonies they narrate the intersecting relationships of work, family, students, patients, and colleagues, weaving them together rather than compartmentalizing them. Challenges inside and outside the academy and other professional settings are revealed, to tell of suffering and transformation, to tally hard-earned life lessons and to share wisdom achieved.

Lives and words are gathered and generously shared, allowing these women to make sense of their own lives while mentoring a wider circle of younger and older readers alike. These "travel tales" of journeys through knowledge and self-knowledge will inform, challenge, surprise, entertain, and inspire.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: A Convocation of Wise Women and Reflections on Lives of Learning – Luisa Del Giudice
• 1. Bridging the Spiritual and the Political: My Scholarly Becoming – Edvige Giunta
• 2. Becoming Storied –Christine Zinni
• 3.Walking between the Worlds: Reflections on a Life of Scholarship –Sabina Magliocco
• 4. Predestination? –Mary Ellen Brown
• 5. Making Dead Bones Sing: Practicing Ethnography in the Italian Diaspora – Luisa Del Giudice
• 6. Chicana Art Historian at the Crossroads –Charlene VillaseÑor Black
• 7. When I’m Tired of Walking, I FLY – Karen Guancione
• 8. Rising and Falling and Rising –Jennifer Guglielmo
• 9. Repining Restlessness –Joanne Leslie
• 10. Finding My Female Zen Ancestors: Is There Such a Thing as a Woman? –Grace Schireson
• 11. The Arc of Becoming – Willow Young
• 12. Sacred Medicine: My Healing (R)Evolution – Annalisa Pastore
• 13. The Ground I Stand On – Lauren Vitiello
• List of Contributors
• Index