The Journal Project: Dialogues and Conversations Inside Women's Studies

By Patty Moore, Dorothy Kidd, Elaine Dornan, et al.

Women's Studies students talk about sexism, racism, violence against women, sexuality and school in this look at contemporary society from some powerful new voices. Through their journal writings, these women confront both traditional norms and contemporary feminism. The book's impact stems in part from the diverse backgrounds of the writers who range in age from eighteen to fifty-five, some back to school after thirty years absence, others just out of high school. Many are mothers, some are poor. The contributors come from differing family and cultural backgrounds, and live in a variety of households: heterosexual, lesbian and bisexual.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929005694
• ISBN13: 9780929005690
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Canadian Scholars Pr
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

This book is a jewel, not to be missed.

I was a contributing writer to "The Journal Project." However, my part was so small, I will risk hints of self-serving interests to rave about the women who created this work. It is a jewel. It is (and is not) about academic women and the classroom process in "Women's Studies." Those excluded from higher education, share an identity and voice here as well. Dispel any unflattering charges about the content of "Women's Studies" courses. the world. "The Journal Project" is a collaboration of a particular small women's community, with its diverse races, ethnicities, languages and/or sexual orientations. Sometimes funny, sad, stirring anger and pain, this work is the unfurling of a hundred -- no, a thousand -- petals of a flower only to reveal the raw, complex beauty of living fully in one's own life. With gaining the knowledge of our 'one-ness' with each other, we unwrap ourselves further, setting off shocks of insight, understanding, and exclamations of "Yes! I've felt that. I thought the exact same thing." What could be more invigorating, life-affirming -- more essential in the lives of today's women? "The Journal Project" gives hope and meaning to the varied roles of women, no matter what generation