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the Bible --- womanhood --- gender issues --- Rachel Held Evans --- traditionalism --- gender roles

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This book tells the story of how a parish women's meeting started in 1876 by a Victorian vicar's wife is now the most authentic and powerful organization of women in the new global Christianity. Its cross-disciplinary approach examines how religious faith and shifting ideologies of womanhood and motherhood in the imperial and post colonial worlds acted as a source of empowerment for conservative women in their homes, communities and churches. In contrast to much of feminist history, A History of the Mothers' Union 1876-2008: Women, Anglicanism and Globalisation shows how the beliefs of ordinary women led them to become advocates and activists long before women had the vote or could be ordained priests.

Having survived an identity crisis over social and theological liberalism in the 1960s, the Mothers' Union provides a model of unity and reconciled diversity for a divided world wide church. Today it is hailed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and international development practitioners as an outstanding example of global Christian engagement with poverty and social transformation issues at the grass roots.

The material is arranged both thematically and chronologically. Case studies of Australia, Ghana and South Africa trace how the Mothers' Union arrived with white British women but evolved into indigenous organizations.

CORDELIA MOYSE is Adjunct Professor of Church History at Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, PA, USA.

Mothers' Union --- Undeb y Mamau --- History. --- HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Anglicanism. --- Collective Identities. --- Empowerment. --- Globalisation. --- Grass Roots. --- International Development. --- Mothers' Union. --- Political Engagement. --- Poverty. --- Social Transformation. --- Victorian Era. --- Women. --- feminist history. --- global Christianity. --- motherhood. --- poverty. --- religious faith. --- social transformation. --- womanhood.

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Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a form of enrichment, bringing feelings of accomplishment, companionship, happiness, and even good health-all benefits of the "everyday creativity" she explores in this book. Part ethnography, part musical discovery, part poetry, part memoir, and part unforgettable portraits of creative individuals, this unique work brings this remote region in North India alive in sight and sound while celebrating the incredible powers of music in our lives. With rare and captivating eloquence, Narayan portrays Kangra songs about difficulties on the lives of goddesses and female saints as a path to well-being. Like the intricate geometries of mandalu patterns drawn in courtyards or the subtle balance of flavors in a meal, well-crafted songs offer a variety of deeply meaningful benefits: as a way of making something of value, as a means of establishing a community of shared pleasure and skill, as a path through hardships and limitations, and as an arena of renewed possibility. Everyday Creativity makes big the small world of Kangra song and opens up new ways of thinking about what creativity is to us and why we are so compelled to engage it.

Music --- Women singers --- Social aspects --- Kāngra (India : District) --- Social life and customs. --- singing, goddesses, goddess, himalayas, himalayan, foothills, middle east, asia, asian, mountains, mountain range, india, china, kangra, women, womanhood, anthropology, anthropologist, college, university, higher education, academic, scholarly, research, companionship, creativity, ethnography, poetry, memoir, interdisciplinary, biographical, biography, saints, music, songs, social studies.

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Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those for other creative mediums. Live Form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to the artistic avant-garde by looking at the central role of women in the field: potters who popularized ceramics as they worked with or taught male counterparts like John Cage, Peter Voulkos, and Ken Price. Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and many others. Far from being an isolated field, ceramics offered a sense of community and social engagement, which, Sorkin argues, crucially set the stage for later participatory forms of art and feminist collectivism.

Women potters --- Ceramics --- Richards, Mary Caroline --- Wildenhain, Marguerite --- women, woman, womanhood, female, gender, ceramics, clay, pottery, craft, crafted, communal, community, relationships, interpersonal, history, historical, academic, scholarly, art, artistic, research, 20th century, contemporary, modern, textbook, abstract, creative, creativity, potter, america, american, marguerite wildenhain, mary caroline, mc, formalism, black mountain college, susan peterson, throwing, wheel.

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After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she traveled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations. Shortly after her father's death, Elisa discovers a cache of letters written in Russian and Yiddish among his belongings, which she quickly resolves to translate. Dated from 1914 to 1922 and addressed to her grandfather, Eli, in Wilmington, Delaware, the letters capture the eight long years that Eli spent apart from his wife and their six children who remained behind in the Pale of Settlement. With each translation, Brodinsky Miller learns more about this time spent apart, the family she knew so little about, and the country they came to leave behind, connecting her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents' hopes for their marriage in America, and now her turn to reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation of aspirations-first theirs, now hers.

Jewish women --- Families. --- Miller, Elisa Brodinsky --- Family. --- Biography. --- Eastern Europe. --- Family/career conflict. --- Generational legacies. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish women. --- Judaism. --- Memoir. --- Modern Russia. --- Russian Far East. --- Russian Ukraine. --- Seattle. --- Shtetl life. --- Tillie Olsen. --- Ukrainian Jews. --- Washington. --- Yiddish. --- career. --- family history. --- genealogy. --- gulag. --- history. --- introspection. --- investigative journalism. --- journalism. --- marriage. --- motherhood. --- personal narrative. --- research. --- travel. --- womanhood. --- writing.