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    Challenge Into Change 2024

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    The Women's Initiative presents Challenge Into Change, a writing program that honors women's stories of overcoming life challenges to find hope and healing. More than 30 writers contributed their stories…

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    Challenge into Change 2016 Writing Contest

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    Challenge into Change is a forum for real-life stories about women overcoming personal struggles. In the fall of 2016, The Women's Initiative invited Central Virginians to submit a poem or…

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    2015 Challenge into Change Writing Contest

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    This book is a chorus of voices raised to honor women who have triumphed against seemingly insurmountable odds with grace, clarity and spirit. Using powerful poetry and prose, the authors…

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    Challenge Into Change 2023

    The Women's Initiative

    The Women's Initiative presents Challenge Into Change, a writing program that honors women's stories of healing and growth. After a break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Challenge Into Change returned…

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    Challenge into Change 2011 Essay Contest

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    Transforming challenging life circumstances into positive growth and change is what this volume is meant to celebrate and hopes to inspire. The women published here responded to a call for…

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    2013 Challenge into Change Essay Contest

    The Women's Initiative

    Transforming challenging life circumstances into positive growth and change is what this volume is meant to celebrate and hopes to inspire. This book shares a selection of inspirational essays (and…

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    Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women’s Initiation

    Corinne A Kratz

    This reissue of Affecting Performance makes available a major work in performance studies, linguistic anthropology, ritual and symbolic studies, and African studies. A classic study widely used in the classroom…

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    An Assessment of the NIH Women’s Health Initiative

    Committee to Review the NIH Women's Health Initiative,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

    The National Institutes of Health Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) is the largest research study designed to test strategies to prevent cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, and osteoporotic fractures - leading causes…

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    An Image Darkly Forming Women And Initiation

    Bani Shorter

    This groundbreaking work explores the role of initiation rituals in the lives of women around the world. Drawing on anthropology, psychology, and spirituality, Shorter provides a fascinating window into a…

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    An Image Darkly Forming: Women and initiation

    Bani Shorter

    Originally published in 1987, a well-known Jungian analyst, the late Bani Shorter writes here about how women are initiated into becoming themselves. Her book was an important contribution to the…

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    An Image Darkly Forming Women And Initiation

    Bani Shorter

    This groundbreaking work explores the role of initiation rituals in the lives of women around the world. Drawing on anthropology, psychology, and spirituality, Shorter provides a fascinating window into a…

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    An Image Darkly Forming: Women and initiation

    Bani Shorter

    Originally published in 1987, a well-known Jungian analyst, the late Bani Shorter writes here about how women are initiated into becoming themselves. Her book was an important contribution to the…

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    Coastal Women’s Self-Help Initiative

    Lila Vijay

    In the heart of coastal communities, an empowering movement has taken root - the Coastal Women's Self-Help Initiative. Led by its visionary founder, Lila Vijay, this initiative has become a…

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    Initiating Women in Freemasonry: The Adoption Rite

    J.A.M. Snoek

    Based on primary sources, this book analyses the historical creation, contents and development of the rituals of the Adoption Rite, with which women were initiated into Freemasonry since 1744. It…

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    Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women

    Sylvia Brinton Perera

    Pioneer study of the need for an inner female authority in a masculine-oriented society. Interprets the journey into the underworld of Inanna-Ishtar, Goddess of Heaven and Earth, to see Ereshkigal…

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    Women’s Health in the Majority World: Issues & Initiatives

    Employing several case studies, this book focuses on health issues that specifically affect women such as maternal mortality, fistulas, and cervical cancer. It also discusses how agencies such as governments…

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    In the Business of Child Care: Employer Initiatives and Working Women

    Judith G. Auerbach

    With the aid of a rigorous methodology, In the Business of Child Care surpasses the traditional descriptive account of child care to provide theoretical discussions on the business of child…

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    Flowing Upstream: Empowering Women through Water Management Initiatives in India

    Brings together five case studies of civil society interventions from different parts of India which have struggled to resolve issues of women’s participation, equity and sustainability in community based water…

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    Lessons Learned and Not Yet Learned from a Multicountry Initiative on Women’s Economic Empowerment

    Sara de Silva,Pierella Paci,Josefina Posadas,Josefina Posadas,Sara Johansson De Silva

    The Results-Based Initiatives (RBI), launched in 2007, were a pioneering attempt to provide comprehensive, coherent and rigorous evidence on effective interventions to foster the economic empowerment of women. This study…

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