Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173) and index.
Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Gender-based violence in religiously pluralistic societies: the West African experience / Mercy Amba Oduyoye -- Part One. General -- Violence and peace in a male-dominated world: a contradiction / Bolatito A. Lanre-Abass -- Religious violence and its impact on women in Jos, Nigeria / Celestina O. Isiramen -- The church, sexual harassment and abuse of women in South-East Nigeria …
Feminist critique of schools of family therapy / Marianne Ault-Riche -- Training family therapists as feminists / Judith A. Libow -- Women, families, and larger systems / Evan Imber-Black -- Feminist examination of family systems models of violence against women in the family / Michele Bogard -- Minority women: a nodal position in the functioning of the social system / Elaine B. Pinderhughes --…
Includes material on the Women for Sobriety program.
Introduction -- Ritual : sacred and demonic -- Addiction to perfection -- Through thick and thin -- Assent to the goddess -- The myth of Ms -- Rape and the demon lover -- The ravished bride.
Preface -- 1. The pillow and the key -- 2. When one hair turns gold -- 3. The road of ashes, descent, and grief -- 4. The hunger for the king in a time with no father -- 5. The meeting with the god-woman in the garden -- 6. To bring the interior warriors back to life -- 7. Riding the red, the white, and the black horses -- 8. The wound by the king's men -- Epilogue : The wild man in ancient rel…
Biological perspectives -- Sex hormones and executive ability / Estelle R. Ramey -- The premenstrual syndrome / Mary Brown Parlee -- Cultural variations -- A cross-cultural analysis of sex differences in the behavior of children aged three through eleven / Beatrice Whiting and Carolyn Pope Edwards -- Conclusion from Sex and temperament in three primative societies / Margaret Mead -- Matriarchy …
Opening to death -- Getting born -- "Be also ready" -- The thirsty mind -- Models -- Heaven/hell -- Finishing business -- Grief -- Dying children -- Working with pain -- Approaching death -- Working with the dying -- A letter from a friend -- Who dies? -- Letting go of control -- Healing/dying: the great balancing act -- Suicide -- Funerals -- Ramana Maharshi -- Stages of dying -- Conscious dyi…
dentifies patterns of age-related change and compares the developmental rhythms of men and women, deepening understanding of the stresses experienced by couples during the various stages of adult life.