The Authors: Geneal G. Cantrell has taught at the elementary (remedial to gifted), undergraduate, and graduate levels. She currently serves as Teacher-in-Residence at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Gregory L. Cantrell has been a teacher, coach, principal, and district-level administrator. He currently serves as Director of Personnel in Spartanburg School District Six in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Geneal and Greg have over ...

The Editor: Katherine Toland Frith is associate professor and past chair of the advertising department in the College of Communications at the Pennsylvania State University. She has a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts. Before joining academia she worked in New York as an advertising copywriter for J. Walter Thompson, N.W. Ayer, and Grey Advertising. She taught advertising as a Fulbright Professor in Malaysia in ...

The Editor: Megan Boler is a graduate of the History of Consciousness Program, University of California Santa Cruz. She is Associate Professor of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include poststructural feminist theory, cyberculture studies and social implications of technology, and cultural and media studies. She launched a multimedia site «Critical ...

How did witnesses of slavery relate their experiences and what effect did their reports have? This book examines travel accounts, fictions, poetry, and legal texts to analyze direct and indirect encounters with slavery in the antebellum United States. It discusses the rhetorical politics of British and American, and black and white, observations of slavery. The discussion raises critical questions about the role of witness and its link with ...

Die Brahma Kumaris oder Töchter Brahmas sind eine Ordensbewegung für meditativen Yoga mit idealistischen gesellschaftlichen Zielen. Ihr Gottes- und Geschichtskonzept ist einzigartig. 1936 gegründet, haben sich die Töchter Brahams flächendeckend in ganz Indien etabliert und sind in vielen Ländern der Welt vertreten. Der Yoga-Orden wird auf allen Ebenen von Frauen geleitet und ist in gewisser Hinsicht die größte Frauenreligion der Welt. Diese ganz ...