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The book "Women Imagine Change" is a global anthology that showcases the resistance of women from various countries and time periods. It covers themes such as women's sexuality and spirituality, their struggles for control over labor and education, and their use of knowledge to gain power. The book includes extensive introductions that provide a theoretical perspective on gender and resistance, as well as biographical context. It not only presents historical examples of women's resistance, but also offers insight into contemporary questions about women's power and the larger systems of power they face.
This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers,
Women Imagine Change explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality; women's interlinked struggles to control their labor and education; their work reshaping representations of gender; and their varied translations of knowledge into power. Extensive introductions combine a broad theoretical perspective on gender and resistance with vivid biographical context. Not only do the writings show women's resistance from an historical perspective; they also offer crucial insight into questions women are posing today about the relationships between their own power, the power of the various groups to which they belong, and the larger systems of power they confront in the world around them.
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