Women's Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives on Shaping their Realities

Women's Lifeworldsis a collection of engaging narratives from fifteen women of various age groups, cultures, religions, social and geographical backgrounds. The stories cover the lives of their grandmothers, mothers, daughters, as well as their own testaments, to illustrate the changing meaning of "place" in women's lives over time and across space. The women--from a Mexican polititican and Muslim psychiatrist to a Finnish housewife and Indian guru--explore the complexity of their perceptions to their own lives and their sources of strength. This book is a lively challenge to thegeneralized assumptions of how women in various historical and cultural contexts feel about womanhood, life, society, culture and religion.