Reviews for The mysteries of attention

The average rating for The mysteries of attention based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-26 00:00:00 William Kuhn This is an amazing work. This is for anyone who is interested in reading books by Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, and similiar, from a lens that explores the connections of giving women the power to be midwives and being healers in their own communities to the loss of that and seeing it in the current state of health in Black women in USA today who no longer have access to the knowledge that their ancestors had; who no longer have that knowledge because the Western medical world they now have to rely on ignores knowledge of women's health and birthing through the vehicle of the oratory and folkore as valid knowlege. This is amazing book that shows the use of the narrative and fictional pieces that continue on the traditions and viable knowledge of these forgotten Granny Midwives. Thank you Professor Lee for doing this amazing work that give voice to a Black Female community that was historically seen and constructed by maintsream White Americans as "too ignorant to contribute anything to the knowledge in the world of Medicine". Even today, many black women feel the effects of this negative stereotyping when trying to interact with a predominantly Euro-anglo centric and White health care system. Anyone interested in the reproductive health of women shoudl read this book!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-23 00:00:00 Nah Son GRACE PALEY’S LIFE STORIES by Judith Arcana "Grace Paley's Life Stories," the biography of renowned author and activist Grace Paley, explores the roots of her political consciousness and traces her work as an activist as it grew into her work as a storyteller. Grace teaches us what it takes and how to do it: Calling for liberation, peace and justice, crying out to save the burning earth, demanding healthcare for all and the right of women to determine the course of their lives. Her struggle through the decades — in the streets and in her stories — is the same as our struggle, right now. Though Grace died in 2007, her work as an activist and writer lives. "Grace Paley’s Life Stories" is a tool for understanding the past, and for using the past to create the future we need. Grace’s commitment to hope, and the work necessary to sustain it, continues to inspire activists, writers — and everybody else. 312 pages, paperback 5.25" x 8", with dustjacket “If you want to know how Grace Paley came to be a tireless political activist and renowned writer — and how she united these callings so completely — read Grace Paley’s Life Stories. This is a book unlike any other I know — not a big brick of biography, nor an opaque literary study. The words in the title, Life Stories, are exactly right: This book is the story of the life from which Grace Paley made her extraordinary stories.” — Carol Sklenicka, author of "Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life" and "Much Love: The Life and Work of Alice Adams" “We must keep Grace Paley’s Life Stories always available. Grace is still an exemplar to writers who would tell good stories, and to citizens who would save the world.” —Maxine Hong Kingston