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Author: Vijay Agnew Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802081148 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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Marginalized in the larger society and the mainstream women's movement, immigrant women are also outsiders in women's shelters, where racially sensitive and linguistically appropriate counselling is generally unavailable. In this book, Vijay Agnew documents the struggles of Canadian women's centres to provide better services to victims of wife abuse from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. The study looks at every aspect of community-based women's organizations, including their funding, operation, and services. The result is a detailed picture of the problems and challenges they encounter on a daily basis. Agnew uses case studies, reports, and interviews to document the work of these groups and to show how race, class, and gender intersect in the everyday lives of the women who depend on them. Although the women's movement initiated public discussion of wife abuse, the fight against abuse is now conducted primarily by the state through its allocation of resources. Agnew underscores the tension that often arises between the patriarchal state and feminist-inspired organizations, and the resulting difficulties in bringing about social change.
Author: Vijay Agnew Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802081148 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
Marginalized in the larger society and the mainstream women's movement, immigrant women are also outsiders in women's shelters, where racially sensitive and linguistically appropriate counselling is generally unavailable. In this book, Vijay Agnew documents the struggles of Canadian women's centres to provide better services to victims of wife abuse from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. The study looks at every aspect of community-based women's organizations, including their funding, operation, and services. The result is a detailed picture of the problems and challenges they encounter on a daily basis. Agnew uses case studies, reports, and interviews to document the work of these groups and to show how race, class, and gender intersect in the everyday lives of the women who depend on them. Although the women's movement initiated public discussion of wife abuse, the fight against abuse is now conducted primarily by the state through its allocation of resources. Agnew underscores the tension that often arises between the patriarchal state and feminist-inspired organizations, and the resulting difficulties in bringing about social change.
Author: John Palfrey Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262343673 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 192
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How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus. Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks—debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up on op-ed pages in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, on cable news, and on social media. Some of these critiques had merit, but others took a series of cheap shots at “crybullies” who needed to be coddled and protected from the real world. Few questioned the assumption that colleges must choose between free expression and diversity. In Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces, John Palfrey argues that the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can, and should, coexist on campus. Palfrey, currently Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover, and formerly Professor and Vice Dean at Harvard Law School, writes that free expression and diversity are more compatible than opposed. Free expression can serve everyone—even if it has at times been dominated by white, male, Christian, heterosexual, able-bodied citizens. Diversity is about self-expression, learning from one another, and working together across differences; it can encompass academic freedom without condoning hate speech. Palfrey proposes an innovative way to support both diversity and free expression on campus: creating safe spaces and brave spaces. In safe spaces, students can explore ideas and express themselves with without feeling marginalized. In brave spaces—classrooms, lecture halls, public forums—the search for knowledge is paramount, even if some discussions may make certain students uncomfortable. The strength of our democracy, says Palfrey, depends on a commitment to upholding both diversity and free expression, especially when it is hardest to do so.
Author: Kate Winter Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 183982252X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 225
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This book broadens the idea of a safe space that is traditionally discussed in feminist studies, to include gendered identities intersecting with class, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ability within multiple aspects of education. This collection showcases work supporting access to education of persistently marginalized individuals.
Author: Amy Lynne Hall Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781723763885 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 38
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This book talks about the journey of going to the safe place, and how it felt, who was there, surroundings and how truly loved, and safe, I felt there. I hope this book inspires someone else and helps them find their way to their safe place
Author: Patty Dilbeck Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477124713 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 113
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The Safe Place Short Summary Steve Ralls hasn't found the woman of his dreams yet but his oldest brother Michael knows that God has a plan for him. When Steve finds a young woman outside his office that has been severely beaten he makes a decision that changes his life forever. She doesn't know who she is but she realizes that Steve's touch and voice are the only things that she can trust. As her health improves she tries to keep a distance between them but is pulled into his life. Before long he and his family are her whole world her security, her family, her support system, her happiness, and most of all he is the lover she has waited for all of her life. He is her safe place.
Author: Leonie Sandercock Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000825434 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 277
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Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator, researcher, artist, and practitioner, Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning, dedicating her life to pursuing social, cultural, and environmental justice through her work. In this book, Leonie Sandercock reflects on her past writings and films, which played an important role in redefining the field in more progressive directions, both in theory and practice. It includes previously published essays in conjunction with insightful commentaries prefacing each section, and four new essays, two discussing Sandercock’s most recent work on a feature-film project with Indigenous partners. Innovative, visionary, and audacious, Leonie’s community-based scholarship and practice in the fields of urban planning and community development have engaged some of the most intractable issues of our time – inequality, discrimination, and racism. Through award-winning books and films, she has influenced the planning field to become more culturally fluent, addressing diversity and difference through structural change. This book draws a map of hope for emerging planners dedicated to equity, justice, and sustainability. It will inspire the next generation of community planners, as well as current practitioners and students in planning, cultural studies, urban studies, architecture, and community development.
Author: Jocelyn L. Buckner Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317586263 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 204
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A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage places this renowned, award-winning playwright's contribution to American theatre in scholarly context. The volume covers Nottage's plays, productions, activism, and artistic collaborations to display the extraordinary breadth and depth of her work. The collection contains chapters on each of her major works, and includes a special three-chapter section devoted to Ruined, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. The anthology also features an interview about collaboration and creativity with Lynn Nottage and two of her most frequent directors, Seret Scott and Kate Whoriskey.
Author: Christina Dodd Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1466885289 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 41
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An exclusive prequel to blockbuster bestselling author Christina Dodd's OBSESSION FALLS (available in September 2015). From New York Times bestselling author comes a chilling story in which uninvited relatives show up at a wealthy couple's home outside of Virtue Falls. When the cousin attempts to take advantage of her wealthy relatives, things take an unexpectedly dark—and fatal—turn.
Author: Teacher Education and Practice Publisher: R&L Education ISBN: 1475819293 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 108
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Teacher Education and Practice, a peer-refereed journal, is dedicated to the encouragement and the dissemination of research and scholarship related to professional education. The journal is concerned, in the broadest sense, with teacher preparation, practice and policy issues related to the teaching profession, as well as being concerned with learning in the school setting. The journal also serves as a forum for the exchange of diverse ideas and points of view within these purposes. As a forum, the journal offers a public space in which to critically examine current discourse and practice as well as engage in generative dialogue. Alternative forms of inquiry and representation are invited, and authors from a variety of backgrounds and diverse perspectives are encouraged to contribute. Teacher Education & Practice is published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Author: Vijay Agnew
Author: Vijay Agnew
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Author: John Palfrey
Author: Kate Winter
Author: Amy Lynne Hall
Author: Patty Dilbeck
Author: Leonie Sandercock
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Author: Christina Dodd
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