In this Book
- On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, and Purpose
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Utah Press
In these dynamic essays, thirteen wise women review their lives for meaning and purpose, striving to integrate both head and heart. They consider how their spiritual paradigms have shaped their vocations as teachers, scholars, guides, mentors, and advocates and how these roles have been integral to their life’s work, not merely to their work life. With courageous and insightful testimonies they narrate the intersecting relationships of work, family, students, patients, and colleagues, weaving them together rather than compartmentalizing them. Challenges inside and outside the academy and other professional settings are revealed, to tell of suffering and transformation, to tally hard-earned life lessons and to share wisdom achieved.
Lives and words are gathered and generously shared, allowing these women to make sense of their own lives while mentoring a wider circle of younger and older readers alike. These “travel tales” of journeys through knowledge and self-knowledge will inform, challenge, surprise, entertain, and inspire.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- 2. Becoming Storied
- pp. 63-93
- 4. Predestination?
- pp. 116-139
- 6. Chicana Art Historian at the Crossroads
- pp. 171-184
- 7. When I’m Tired of Walking, I FLY
- pp. 185-214
- 8. Rising and Falling and Rising
- pp. 215-237
- 9. Repining Restlessness
- pp. 238-260
- 11. The Arc of Becoming
- pp. 276-289
- 12. Sacred Medicine: My Healing (R)Evolution
- pp. 290-311
- 13. The Ground I Stand On
- pp. 312-336
- List of Contributors
- pp. 337-342
Additional Information
Copyright
2017