When you think about women and spiritual practice, what pops into your mind? Leggy ladies in tights doing a downward dog? Wafty women in white flowing robes dancing among flickering candles? Pop cultural images of women interested in spirituality often imply that the goal of spiritual practice for women is to become hyperfeminine. (Click for [...]
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In January, Toronto police constable Michael Sanguinetti made a gaffe that has sparked a worldwide protest among young women and their supporters. Sanguinetti was speaking about women’s safety at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School when he suggested that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” There you have it: [...]
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A clip from an evening dialogue entitled “Women Surfing the Edge of Change” between authors Elizabeth Debold and Dalma Heyn presented by EnlightenNext Boston. Read original blog post here. In this clip, Elizabeth asks “What narrative are we in?” There is the story of the good wife in modernity, there is the current story that [...]
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I invited Elizabeth Debold and Dalma Heyn to come to Boston for a public dialogue on women’s development, which was held on June 24. The title of their dialogue was: Women Surfing the Edge of Change: Life, Love, & Work in our Confusing Times. I was really keen on bringing Dalma and Elizabeth together in [...]
As our sisters in Egypt risked their lives by marching in Tahrir Square today, it made me think about those of us in the West who have already won the right to walk where we please, say what we want, and pretty much do want we want with our lives. Even so, the changes here [...]
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Fourteen years ago, I was forty years old, had recently received my doctorate from Harvard where I’d worked with Carol Gilligan in a small research collective that was charting new developmental pathways for girls and women, and had co-authored a bestselling book about how to transform the mother-daughter relationship in the hopes that the next generations of women [...]
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I’ve been very remiss in not noting Mary Daly’s passing on January 6, 2009. The New York Times did a very respectful obituary, noting the significance of her contribution to feminist and religious thought. Daly, in case you don’t know her, was a powerful theologian. One of the first women to study theology and, from [...]
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From UN Millennium Development Goals to an exploration of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy and a call for integral education to start informing our higher education systems to new visions for women of faith, the Parliament themes bombard participants at all kinds of different levels and dimensions of the mind, psyche, and self. The session on the [...]
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Recently, I have had the good fortune of meeting an amazing woman named Aliya Haeri. Our friendship began earlier this year, and then I invited her to be a guest on our regular EnlightenNext webcast that I co-host with my partner Chris Parish. To listen to the webcast, click here. If you would like to listen to the [...]
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“Women’s creations sank soundlessly into the sea, leaving barely a ripple, and succeeding generations of women were left to cover the same ground others had already covered before them.” …Although late at night these words leapt from the page, shattering the comfortable lull of descending sleep. This disquieting observation by Gerda Lerner, Professor of History, [...]
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