Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Bouvard, Marguerite Guzmán

Politics & Government

Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard’s memoir reveals a quiet but rebellious nature whose journey starts at an early age and leads to feminism. Before the women's movement, at a time when it was uncommon for a woman to attend graduate school, she earned her doctorate and fought for a career as a professor of political science. She actively promoted human rights for women in different cultures. As a wife, mother, and educator, she explored different religions and traditions, documenting them in poems and essays, recognizing verity and value in them all.In this inspiring book, Marguerite describes how she crafted a fulfilling life while dealing with chronic illness. She demonstrates how one can positively change the world despite daunting obstacles and challenges. Limiting and demeaning terms and labels are confronted and dispelled.

The Memoir of a Rebel: A Feminist Woman Before the Women's Movement

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

IN Publications

This is a new book of poems by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard has published 21 books, including 9 books of poetry and numerous books in the elds of human rights, women’s rights, illness, grief and social justice. Her poetry and essays have been widely anthologized and her poetry books have won the Quarterly Review of Literature Award and the MassBook Award for Poetry. She has received grants for her poetry from the Puf n and Danforth foundations.

The Flame of Life

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Human Error Publishing

In the late 1980s Marguerite Guzman Bouvard began experiencing the puzzling symptoms of an illness that affects millions of women yet often takes years to diagnose, interstitial cystitis: an inflammation and deterioration of the bladder lining. It is often accompanied by related immune disorders such as fibromyalgia and vulvodynia that cause crushing fatigue and a host of allergies, conditions Bouvard developed. As her illnesses progressed, Bouvard, an active globe trotting scholar and writer, was forced to slow down and to reassess her priorities. This memoir tells the story of how she came to create a life that was rich and full despite debilitating physical conditions.Bouvard addresses key issues such as the importance of speaking clearly to the broader society about illness, learning to deal with pain, and how to manage relations with physicians. She reveals how she learned to continue to be of use to the world by opening up a new area of working toward human rights and reorienting her life as a writer. The book has a strong spiritual dimension in revealing how the meditation and reflection she turned to because of her curtailed activities actually opened her up to a wider life. From these practices she learned to cultivate inner strength, flexibility, and adaptability. Thankful for small pleasures and grateful for what she has, Bouvard shows how true healing means not waiting for a cure, but maintaining a sense of possibility.

Healing: A Life With Chronic Illness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Univ Pr of New England

Social Justice at the Grass Roots

In this book Marguerite Bouvard explores the power of working for social justice and community building at the grass roots level. An experienced scholar of American politics, Bouvard reveals that while views may clash at the federal and state level, the local level is a very important venue, where individuals and groups can create understanding between different faiths and help marginalized people feel empowered. The leaders and founders of these groups have not worked from the top down, but reached out to people at their own level to work together for positive change. Their much needed emotional and social intelligence reveals how one person can indeed make a difference when problems seem overwhelming. American may live in a divided country, yet this book reveals how our different faiths and backgrounds are able to work together on such important issues such as climate change, promoting understanding among diverse religions, and legal and social help for undocumented immigrants. It also discusses grass roots approaches to providing health care for the poor and underserved as well as how to integrate people with disabilities as productive members of society. Two of the chapters feature young people who are working with these issues. Social Justice at the Grass Roots is meant to empower young people as well as adults and help them to understand that they can make changes that bring us together. It reveals that compassion can overcome fear and misunderstanding to celebrate our diversity and argues that a different kind of power, one based on moral values, can make it possible for heterogeneous groups to progress in solving important problems in our society.

Social justice at the grass roots

Social Sciences

Academica Press

For those of all faiths and walks of life who suffer from stress, disappointment, illness, or loss, this book will provide an opening to a wider world of the spirit and a path to affirmation and joy.

Prayers For Comfort In Difficult Times

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

Wind Pubns

The Immensity of Moments

Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard’s poetry books have won two awards, the Quarterly Review of Literature award and the MassBook Award for Poetry. She has received awards for her poems from Blue Mesa Press, and the Moon prize from Writing in a Woman’s Voice. She is a former professor of Political Science and Poetry as well as giving lectures on climate change. She has also written a number of non-fiction books on Social Justice, Human Rights, Grief, Illness and The Invisible Wounds of War. Her book, Revolutionizing Motherhood: the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, has been cited around the world in Croatia, Denmark, Austria, Poland, France, Switzerland, Israel, Sweden, Romania, Indonesia, Israel, Spain, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, and Iran.

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