Courage of Conviction: Women's Words, Women's Wisdom

Linda A. M. Perry, Patricia Geist

Mayfield Publishing Company, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 344 pages

This anthology contains twenty concise, original essays profiling women who have found "voice" and overcome the forces that historically have restricted, ostracized, and silenced their voices. The selections examine their personal and social obstacles as well as their accomplishments and empowerment through works, words, and actions.

Contents

• Womens Wisdom 165: 10
• Womens Words: 17
• Mother Jones Crusades for Labor: 55
• The Spirit of Conviction: 87
• Catching a Lifetime in a Phrase: 101
• The Writings: 113
• A Disabled Womans Journey: 129
• The SelfReflective Power of Carly Simons: 145
• Untitled María Cristina González: 168
• The Mystery and Mystique of Natural Childbirth: 185
• Mothers Experiences of Visiting: 201
• Communicating in Families of the Holocaust: 221
• Voices of Literacy and Literate: 235
• Speaking as: 253
• Judith Liu Kathleen Grove and Donald P Kelly: 283
• Breaking the Silence: 301
• Searching for a Cultural: 321
• La Malinche Revisited María Cristina González: 339

Bibliographic information

• Title: Courage of Conviction: Women's Words, Women's Wisdom
• Editors: Linda A. M. Perry, Patricia Geist
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1997
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 23, 2009
• ISBN: 1559347163, 9781559347167
• Length: 344 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women; Literary Collections / Subjects & Themes / General; Social Science / Women's Studies