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Women's Spirit Bonding
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Published January 1, 1984
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Janet Kalven
5 books1 followerJanet Kalven (May 21, 1913 — April 24, 2014) was a feminist Catholic educator and writer associated with the Grail.
Janet Kalven was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rose Nathan and Harry Kalven. After finishing high school as valedictorian of her class, she attended the University of Chicago, where writer Jane Kesner was her friend and assigned "big sister". She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1934. Later in life she earned a master's degree in adult education from Boston University.
Her family background was Jewish, but Janet Kalven became a Roman Catholic convert as a young woman.
Late in life, Kalven moved from Grailville to buy a converted school building in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she lived and created affordable housing for women.
Janet Kalven died April 24, 2014, at age 100, in Milford, Ohio.
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Janet Kalven was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rose Nathan and Harry Kalven. After finishing high school as valedictorian of her class, she attended the University of Chicago, where writer Jane Kesner was her friend and assigned "big sister". She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1934. Later in life she earned a master's degree in adult education from Boston University.
Her family background was Jewish, but Janet Kalven became a Roman Catholic convert as a young woman.
Late in life, Kalven moved from Grailville to buy a converted school building in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she lived and created affordable housing for women.
Janet Kalven died April 24, 2014, at age 100, in Milford, Ohio.
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September 4, 2024
A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF WRITINGS FROM A CONFERENCE ON WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY
At the time this collection was published in 1984, Janet Kalven was Associate Director, Self-Learning Program at the University of Dayton; Mary Buckley was Associate Professor of Theology at St. John's University in Jamaica, New York.
The editors wrote in the Introduction, "'Women's Spirit Bonding' brought together at Grailville, Loveland, Ohio, 136 women, two very small girls, and one man for a week of feminist theologizing. In many respects we were a homogeneous group... Yet at the same time our group encompassed great diversities in race, religion, ethnic background, life-styles...
"What was the magnet that drew us together and attracted another hundred participants who had to be turned away for lack of space? Our starting point was a sense of crisis... We shared, too, a faith in the potential transforming power that lies in women's bonding... But to exercise our transformative power, we must be able to bond together...
"The reader will find that certain themes recur---a nonhierarchical view of the universe, the unity of the spiritual and the political, the interstructuring of oppressions, the value of diversity, the importance of image and story as vehicles for insight---approached from quite different starting points by different women."
Contributors included Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Judith Plaskow, Mary Hunt, Carol Christ, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Starhawk, Diann Neu, and many others.
At the time this collection was published in 1984, Janet Kalven was Associate Director, Self-Learning Program at the University of Dayton; Mary Buckley was Associate Professor of Theology at St. John's University in Jamaica, New York.
The editors wrote in the Introduction, "'Women's Spirit Bonding' brought together at Grailville, Loveland, Ohio, 136 women, two very small girls, and one man for a week of feminist theologizing. In many respects we were a homogeneous group... Yet at the same time our group encompassed great diversities in race, religion, ethnic background, life-styles...
"What was the magnet that drew us together and attracted another hundred participants who had to be turned away for lack of space? Our starting point was a sense of crisis... We shared, too, a faith in the potential transforming power that lies in women's bonding... But to exercise our transformative power, we must be able to bond together...
"The reader will find that certain themes recur---a nonhierarchical view of the universe, the unity of the spiritual and the political, the interstructuring of oppressions, the value of diversity, the importance of image and story as vehicles for insight---approached from quite different starting points by different women."
Contributors included Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Judith Plaskow, Mary Hunt, Carol Christ, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Starhawk, Diann Neu, and many others.
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