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Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Nov 2009

Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2009), New Hope For Women Staff Sep 2009

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 Sep 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Feb 2009

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 Jan 2009

Pine Tree Notes (Jan-Feb 2009), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.