A Feminist Ethic of Risk

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Fortress Press, 1990 - 206 sider
An updated edition of this influential feminist text.

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Acknowledgments
9
Narratives of Healing and Transformation
39
Memory and Accountability
49
A Heritage of Persistence Imagination and Solidarity
67
The Healing Power of Love
83
Part Three A Theology for the Bearers
101
An Ethic of Solidarity and Difference
123
A Theology of Resistance and Hope
153
Notes
181
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Side 155 - Wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick...
Side 155 - ... million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown...
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Side 53 - ... those, the nine million and more it is said, who in their enforced exile, their diaspora, had gone down between this point and the homeland lying out of sight to the east. This sea mourned them. Aggrieved, outraged, unappeased. it hurled itself upon each of the reefs in turn and then upon the shingle beach, sending up the spume in an angry froth which the wind took and drove in like smoke over the land. Great boulders that had roared down...
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Side 172 - For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our lives pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of.

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