Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Trim: 7 x 9
978-0-7425-4174-0 • Paperback • June 2005 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Frida Kerner Furman is professor of religious studies at DePaul University. Elizabeth A. Kelly is associate professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at DePaul University. Linda Williamson Nelson is associate professor of anthropology and writing at Richard Stockton College.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Daughters of Diaspora: Negotiating Family and CulturalHeritage
Chapter 4 A Friend of My Mind: Co-Construction and Cooperationin Extended Conversations
Chapter 5 The House that Words Built: Education and Dissidence
Chapter 6 For Every Border, a Bridge: Identity, Hybridity, and Moral Selves
Chapter 7 Work As Prayer: The Spiritual Dynamics of Professional Lives Within and Against the Academy
Chapter 8 Interwoven Lives, Cosmopolitan Visions
Chapter 9 Bibliography
Chapter 10 Index
The discussion of differences between women: class, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, has been posed as a competitive exercise in 'political correctness.' In their dialogical telling of their lives, Frida Furman, Elizabeth Kelly, and Linda Williamson Nelson craft a refreshingly new approach. Instead, their histories meet and mingle as mutual enrichment that is a 'hearing of one another into speech.'
— Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont School of Theology
These candid, eloquent, engaging, and thoughtful narratives about three different lives interweave with each other to offer multiple portraits of the ways in which socioeconomic class, ethnicity, sexual identity, gender, and family history have shaped the entry of the authors into the spaces of academic life and textured their experiences within it. A must-read for all of us interested in thinking about the forces that shape knowledge production, academic success, and our prospects for genuinely inclusive academic institutions.
— Uma Narayan, Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College