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Sex, Shame, and Violence: A Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities
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Description for Sex, Shame, and Violence: A Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities
Hardcover. Empowering vulnerable communities through storytelling about difficult issues Num Pages: 254 pages, 130 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
For more than three decades, Kathleen Cash has lived and worked with impoverished people, learning about their lives. Listening to them talk about their feelings of shame, Cash heard how people suffered from being unable to change what was happening to them--HIV infection, sexual and domestic violence, violence toward children, and environmental degradation. She saw that many interventions lacked emotional and cultural integrity and thus did little to alleviate these hardships. So Cash went outside the conventional approaches to health promotion and social justice and devised a community narrative practice, a strategy for engaging people through storytelling. From numerous ethnographic ... Read more
For more than three decades, Kathleen Cash has lived and worked with impoverished people, learning about their lives. Listening to them talk about their feelings of shame, Cash heard how people suffered from being unable to change what was happening to them--HIV infection, sexual and domestic violence, violence toward children, and environmental degradation. She saw that many interventions lacked emotional and cultural integrity and thus did little to alleviate these hardships. So Cash went outside the conventional approaches to health promotion and social justice and devised a community narrative practice, a strategy for engaging people through storytelling. From numerous ethnographic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520500
SKU
V9780826520500
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About Cash
Kathleen Cash, EdD, has worked with vulnerable communities in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Malawi, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States. She has received two Fulbright Fellowships and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship.
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