Gender studies: women and girls Books

Book SynopsisWinner of:2013 National Jewish Book AwardFor centuries, Jews have turned to the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer upon experiencing a loss. This groundbreaking book explores what the recitation of Kaddish has meant specifically to women. Did they find the consolation, closure, and community they were seeking? How did saying Kaddish affect their relationships with God, with prayer, with the deceased, and with the living? With courage and generosity, 52 authors from around the world reflect upon their experiences of mourning. They share their relationships with the family members they lost and what it meant to move on; how they struggled to balance the competing demands of child rearing, work, and grief; what they learned about tradition and themselves; and the disappointments and particular challenges they confronted as women. The collection shares viewpoints from diverse perspectives and backgrounds and examines what it means to heal from loss and to honor memory in family relationships, both loving and fraught with pain. It is a precious record of women searching for their place within Jewish tradition and exploring the connections that make human life worthwhile.Trade Review"The 52 essays in this book give women a voice and a place. Each one is a prize. We are all enriched by this volume." --Ari L. Goldman, author, Living a Year of Kaddish and The Search for God at Harvard"A deeply moving anthology of women who have loved and lost and prayed. The essays it contains are short in length but long in wisdom, consolation, and comfort." --Erica Brown, author, Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death"This is a groundbreaking work! Women are newly coming to Kaddish, with a self-consciousness and introspection that demonstrate the power of ritual to connect us to our innermost self. . . . This book will surely help make a practice that is just coming into its own become a fixed ritual for all time." --Blu Greenberg, author, On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition"A warm, personal invitation into the sisterhood of mourners. Reciting Kaddish has altered the lives of these women, and now the lives of the readers of this collection. Deeply moving and inspiring." --Aliza Kline, founding director, Mayyim Hayyim Community Mikveh"Anyone who reads it will come away with a new appreciation of the power of daily prayer to heal bruised hearts and to give new spirit in time of loss, and with a new appreciation for the way in which modern Orthodox Jews are striving to balance their commitment to tradition with their understanding of the spiritual needs of the women in their midst. [...]" --Rabbi Jack Riemer, jns.org"This collection of 52 articulate essays...represents a broad sampling of Jewish women's experiences with traditional mourning rituals.... Kaddish is a religious need, and, as discipline and source of comfort, as crucial for a Jewish woman as it is for a Jewish man." -- Publishers Weekly"More than 50 women writers contributed personal essays to this unique collection.... In addition to providing a dynamic view of feminism and Judaism, the collection coheres as a community of women experienced in mourning as a human sensibility, opening the titular theme to others who may feel alone in their bereavement." --Francisca Goldsmith, Booklist"This collection of 52 articulate essays . . . represents a broad sampling of Jewish women's experiences with traditional mourning rituals. . . . Kaddish is a religious need, and, as discipline and source of comfort, as crucial for a Jewish woman as it is for a Jewish man." -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisThe women profiled in this collection of absorbing essays—some known throughout the world, others known only within their own communities—all share one key trait: whether religious or secular, they are driven by their commitment to Judaism to engage in acts of kindness. In profiling women such as Ruth Gruber, who helped hundreds of Jewish refugees escape from war-torn Europe, or Wendy Kay, who regularly invites teenagers to her home for Shabbat, The Jewish Woman Next Door provides contemporary role models that readers will admire and be able to emulate.Trade Review"Debbie Flancbaum also does much to break down hackneyed images as she positively showcases Jewish women living their lives. They are women who work hard, often without much recognition or reward, pursuing ways of justice and peace, study and expansive good deeds, in a spirit of generosity and openness." --Sandee Brawarsky, Jewish Week"Debbie Flancbaum . . . does much to break down hackneyed images as she positively showcases Jewish women living their lives." -- Jewish Week"This book helps combat the all-too-frequent insulting portrayals of Jewish women in popular culture. The Jewish Woman Next Door is a book that deserves to be in your home, synagogue, and community library." -- Jewish Press

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Book SynopsisExplore the most widespread myths concerning women in the workplace, then dismantle them with facts, arguments, logic, and tactics. Every organization has stories about women in the workplace that live on through constant retelling: ‘Women are too emotional’; ‘ Women are not interested in a career’; and ‘We are hiring the best person for the job, regardless of gender’. We need to dispel these myths that are keeping women on a lesser footing. Here are the tools for doing just that. This book will shatter ongoing workplace gender myths. Narratives provides context for these stories and offers women— and men— the powerful arguments and tools they need to counteract them and ensure a fairer and more competitive workplace— and a better business overall.

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Book SynopsisMujeres Conscientes es una invitaciÓn a unirnos en la bÚsqueda de la plenitud. Agus Echegoyen es la autora, anfitriona y guÍa de este viaje Único. Mujeres Conscientes te propone realizar diez movimientos clave para alcanzar el poder de la esencia femenina y conquistar tu mejor versiÓn en cada momento. Consciente de quiÉnes somos, de nuestras relaciones, de nuestro consumo y alimentaciÓn, de nuestros pensamientos, de nuestra actividad fÍsica, del trabajo que elegimos, de las emociones que sentimos, de las decisiones que tomamos, del aquÍ, acÁ y ahora. Alcanzar la conciencia plena en diez movimientos para alejarnos de nuestras zonas cÓmodas y mecÁnicas, y acercarnos a la fuente de nuestro ser mÁs genuino y poderoso. El camino es individual y la realizaciÓn es colectiva. Por eso, sumate al movimiento Mujeres Conscientes para transformarte y transformar. Mujeres Conscientes is a powerful tool for women to access their feminine essence and unlock their best selves. This book equips its readers with ten key movements that will set them on a quest towards fulfillment and self-awareness. ​

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