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Book SynopsisMary Field Belenky, Lynne A. Bond, and Jacqueline S. Weinstock, hoping to carry Belenky''s theoretical work in the bestselling Women''s Ways of Knowing into the realm of everyday life, created the Listening Partners project, designed to help young women isolated in rural poverty give voice to their personal and communal needs and come together to create social change . A Tradition That Has No Name explores this project and the work of other women who have created organizations to give voice to and strengthen traditions of community organizing and leadership, particularly as they have developed in communities of women marginalized by race and class. Ranging across cultures and classes,from struggling inner-city neighbourhoods to affluent middle-class suburbs, from African American communities in the South to poor rural communities in Vermont,the book teaches us how to appreciate the ways women create networks of listening and community-building, and how to bring these little-recogniz
Table of ContentsOtherness * Introduction: Otherness and Silence * Dualisms That Divide and Deny * Confronting Otherness: Previous Research The Development Of Voice In Private Life * An Experiment * The Listening Partners Project * What Was Learned * Relationships and Development * Mothers and Children The Development Of Voice In Public Life * Organizations That Sponsor Development * Public Homeplaces * The Mothers Center Movements * The National Congress of Neighborhood Women * The Center for Cultural and Community Development * Leaders Who Must Nurture Development * The Philosophy and Practice of Developmental Leadership * Passing the Tradition On
