1st Edition
Radiating Feminism Resilience Practices to Transform our Inner and Outer Lives
1. Introduction: Creating a More Just World
2. Embodying Our Feminism
3. Oppression, Trauma, and Embodied Healing
4. Unlearning Our Toxic Inner Voice
5. Navigating the In-Between
6. Recognizing and Dismantling Embodied Privilege
7. What Is an Ally and Is It Enough?
8. How to Have Difficult Conversations about Social Justice
9. On Anger and Love
10. Feminist Burnout and Sustainability
11. Filling Our Well When Change Is Slow
12. Conclusion: Riding the Cycles of Change
Biography
Beth Berila is the Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, Professor in the Ethnic, Gender, and Women’s Studies Department at St. Cloud State University, and author of Integrating Mindfulness into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy: Social Justice in Higher Education.
Radiating Feminism is timely, grounded, and invites readers to explore themselves: what motivates them, how they respond to adversity, and how to heal. You will want to delve into the practices alone or with a group, to store them away for difficult moments when you need them most.
– Wendy E. Shaia, Clinical Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Social Work Community Outreach Service at the University of Maryland School of Social Work
Like feminism itself, this book is justice-oriented and applied, complex but accessible, critically conscious and reflective. It simultaneously challenges dominant narratives while nurturing new visions of an embodied, mindful, and conscious feminist future. This book guides readers towards living their feminism: staying grounded in the realities of injustice while embodying the path into collective liberation.
– Tessa Hicks Peterson, Affiliated Faculty Member of Gender and Feminist Studies at Pitzer College
This book brings alive rich connections between feminist thought and mindfulness. It’s personal and reflective, theoretically rich, and provides concrete practices for embodying and enacting our feminist values. Readers are invited to journey toward purposeful social action for individual and collective transformation.
- Beth S. Catlett, Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, DePaul University
