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Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff
Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2009), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2009), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Pine Tree Notes (Septemer-October 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff
Pine Tree Notes (Septemer-October 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2009), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2009), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Pine Tree Notes (March-April 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff
Pine Tree Notes (March-April 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Doing Good, Being Good, And The Social Construction Of Compassion, Amy Blackstone
Doing Good, Being Good, And The Social Construction Of Compassion, Amy Blackstone
Sociology School Faculty Scholarship
Activists and volunteers in the United States face the dilemma of having to negotiate the ideals of American individualism with their own acts of compassion. In this article, I consider how activists and volunteers socially construct compassion. Data from ethnographic research in the breast cancer and antirape movements are analyzed. The processes through which compassion is constructed are revealed in participants’ actions and in their identities. It is through their actions (or “doing good”) and their perceptions and presentations of themselves (“being good”) that participants construct compassion as a gendered phenomenon. Together, the processes of doing good and being good …
Pine Tree Notes (Jan-Feb 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff
Pine Tree Notes (Jan-Feb 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.