Straddling Worlds, Bringing Your Whole Self

First of all, I think I must address my condition as a Jewish woman. [...] after years of doing the external work required of me, the things others defined as essential, having taken up and laid down traditional organizing of various kinds, and lecturing, and leading workshops, and academic teaching...

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Published in:Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) Wash.), 2011-04, Vol.16 (1), p.44-50
Main Authors: Morales, Aurora Levins, Randall, Margaret
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Awards & honors
Children
Consciousness
Families & family life
Feminism
Interviews
Jewish people
Jewish peoples
Literary studies, Jewish studies, gender studies
Paternalism
Randall, Margaret
Sexism
Women authors
Women, Jewish
Writers
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Summary:First of all, I think I must address my condition as a Jewish woman. [...] after years of doing the external work required of me, the things others defined as essential, having taken up and laid down traditional organizing of various kinds, and lecturing, and leading workshops, and academic teaching, and a long string of other things, after wearing my body out by doing all these things, here I am, tired and ill and aching, and happy at my desk, doing the work that is uniquely mine. [...] nearing sixty, I live more and more in the river of myself, doing work that rises from my body, broadened by deep-seated internationalism and a Latin American, continental identity, by ecological consciousness and love of nature, by the multiplicity of identities I can speak from, deepened by a sense of history.
ISSN:1046-8358
1558-9552
DOI:10.2979/bridges.16.1.44