Jane
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from Towanda
Jane Lane
twitters topics that rural women are talking about behind the scenes. Politics,
gender, health, jobs, sustainable communities, environment, more. Bio:
Jane Lane lives mainly on the plains where it very seldom rains. Follow
Jane on Twitter.
Rural
Woman's Breast Cancer Journal
Why
I write a breast cancer journal
I heard the doctor tell someone,
“this is going to be cancer, make an appointment for an MRI right away.”
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Book:
Hollis Sigler’s Breast Cancer Journal
Hollis Sigler was a visual artist
who created a body of work called, Breast Cancer Journal: Walking with
the ghosts of my grandmothers. In 1985, she was diagnosed with breast cancer
and had a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment. At that time,
her disease was a much more private concern and she got on with her life,
“hoping that she would be among those who had experienced a sobering confrontation
with cancer, one that for the most part was resolved.”
In 1992, the cancer was found in
her bones, and “she got angry, and then she got busy. Her frustrations
with the confusing and meager flow of sometimes contradictory clinical
information, with the lack of outreach resources, with the sense of being
isolated with a potentially terminal disease while simultaneously certain
that everywhere there were thousands, no millions, of women in precisely
her position,” led to her activism and to the journal.
She began publicly acknowledging
her cancer by painting to express not just her own experience, but her
family history, and as political consciousness raising. Both her mother
and grandmother had breast cancer. Her paintings express the challenge
of the disease, “all its moments of despair, revelation poignancy, sorrow,
exhilaration, agony, hope, dejection, frustration, and tenderness,” James
Yood wrote in one of the introductions. The other introduction was written
by Susan M. Love, M.D. Complete
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Must
Watch Video on Inflammatory Breast Cancer - You won't find this with
a mammogram.
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Z-Blog:
Rural Woman Zone Bloggers
Rural women on politics, gender,
culture, feminism, social change, social networks, health care, reproductive
rights, women's rights, more.
Violence
Against Women News Blog
Book: Family and Friends Guide
to Domestic Violence: How to Listen, Talk and Take Action When Someone
You Care about Is Being Abused
by Elaine Weiss
It’s hard to know what to do when
someone you care about is in an abusive relationship. Do you ask about
it? What if you’re wrong? Do you offer to help? Even at the risk of interfering?
Says author Elaine Weiss
domestic violence doesn't just happen
"out there. It happens in our town, in our neighborhood, on our street.
It happens to women we see at the supermarket, the movie theater, and the
PTA. It happens to our friends and our co-workers. It happens to our mothers,
our sisters, our daughters, and ourselves.”
This book will help you to understand
domestic violence and help someone you know is being abuse.
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Why
a Rural Womyn Zone? Rural Womyn Zone
exists to provide women isolated from each other by geography, culture,
and other barriers a safe place to meet, express a rural feminist perspective,
and to provide a base for political activism on the local and larger levels.
We respond
to this statement from Carolyn Sachs, who wrote in Gendered Fields: “One
challenge faced by scholars involves how to avoid colonizing the voices
of rural women, and how instead to seriously face and understand the different
contexts of rural women’s lives. . Feminist theorists.. ..remain
caught in a bind. We call for marginalized groups of women to add their
perspectives to feminist discourse and practice in order to enable subjects
to speak for themselves, but we realize that the academic and literary
worlds are closed or alien to many of these women.”
We interact
with each other and with others interested in rural / women's issues through
Twitter,
Facebook, the Ruralwomyn
Email List, and express ourselves in our blogs. |
