Becky Thompson (1)

Autor von A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism

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Becky Thompson is a professor of sociology at Simmons College. Her books include Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for Those Healing from Trauma and A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism.

Bildnachweis: from Simmons University faculty page

Werke von Becky Thompson

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A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism (2001) 65 Exemplare

A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems (1994) 44 Exemplare

Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity (1996) 42 Exemplare

Midnight Mom Devotional: 365 Prayers to Put Your Momma Heart to Rest (2020) 25 Exemplare

Teaching with tenderness : toward an embodied practice (2017) 11 Exemplare

Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence (1993) 10 Exemplare

Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for Those Healing from Trauma (2014) 7 Exemplare

Mothering Without a Compass: White Mother's Love, Black Son's Courage (2000) 5 Exemplare

Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by Refugees (2019) 2 Exemplare

Zero Is the Whole I Fall into at Night (2012) 1 Exemplar

No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism 1 Exemplar

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Aktivist (7) Anthologie (2) Antirassismus (5) Autobiographie (2) Befreiung (2) Biographie (3) Bürgerrechte (6) Christentum (1) Equity (2) Essstörung (9) Feminismus (4) Frauen (2) Gebet (1) Gedichte (1) Gelesen (2) Geschichte (7) Geschlecht (3) Klasse (5) Meridian:Race & Ethnicity (2) noch zu lesen (9) Other/Nonspecific Race or Ethnic Category - Black (2) Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung (2) Protest (2) racial identity (2) Rasse (17) rassenbeziehungen (2) Rassismus (8) Sachbuch (5) Sexualität (2) SHELF Equity (2) Social and Economic Justice (2) somatic (1) Soziologie (3) Theorie (1) USA (2) Volkszugehörigkeit (3) Weißgrad (5) White Supremacy (2) Women's Study (1) Yoga (2)

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Geburtstag: 20th century
Geschlecht: female
Nationalität: USA
Land (für Karte): USA
Ausbildung: University of California, Santa Cruz (BA)
Brandeis University (MA, PhD)
University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast (MFA)
Berufe: sociology professor, Simmons University
yoga teacher
Organisationen: Simmons College (sociology professor)

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A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak… von Becky W. Thompson

This book explores the experience of minority women with eating disorders. The aim of the author is to combat the stereotype that eating disorders are an upper-class, white, female problem only (although there are no males in this book). This book did the best job of any I've read of discussing the many possible experiences of eating disorders, from types of disorders to their possible causes and possible roads to recovery. This author didn't have a theory or agenda she was attempting to prove using case studies, she wanted to study an idea (that eating disorders can cut across class, race, sexuality, etc) which is true and hasn't been much addressed.… (mehr)

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