“Drs. Judith Bachay and Raúl Fernández-Calienes present us with another outstanding volume of narratives that provide a much needed forum to share stories of the global movement of women towards empowerment and the securing of their human rights. Each of the twenty-three chapters’ authors share different aspects of the issues and challenges women have or will encounter as they “move forward.” The diversity of the stories reflects the diversity of the authors. As examples, Ariela Agosín discusses the progress Chile has made in recent years towards providing women with a voice. Katariina Juliao provides the reader with a comparison between the United States and Finland as to the evolution of women’s rights using examples from politics, education, and the workplace. Many of the authors explore the new difficulties and prejudices faced by women and/or their families who have migrated to foreign countries to escape the oppressive conditions in their homelands. Others reveal to the reader through first-person narratives, the intrapersonal conflicts experienced by those who are “moving forward” but fear the loss of their heritage. Women Moving Forward: Volume 2 delivers what the editors promise: a scholarly forum for the development of an intersectional perspective that extends our awareness of how women are moving beyond victimhood. This is a book that both inspires and challenges the reader!” Nancy Borkowski, D.B.A., C.P.A., Associate Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs, South University (West Palm Beach, Florida) “Women Moving Forward-Volume 2 is a cornucopia of issues and ideas, offered by diverse voices that lay the ground work for new ways of thinking and meaning making. Judith Barr Bachay and Raúl Fernández-Calienes are opening up spaces for an intersectional analysis that includes the unique experience of women. This is a must-read for social workers, academics, and human rights activists who want to learn about and from women who are claiming their place in every aspect of the world arena. I can't wait to meet and learn from the authors of Volume 3!” Carol Heinisch, M.A., M.S.W., Social Worker, Jefferson County Public Defender’s Office (Denver, Colorado) “This is a weaving of stories that speaks centrally to hope, fortitude, resilience, identity, and compassion amongst women. Within these writings is a central theme of finding meaning in adversity, promoting advocacy and justice, and fostering dignity in the human community through access and opportunity. Robert Coles posits, what we need is a respect “for narrative as everyone’s rock-bottom capacity, but also as a universal gift, to be shared with others.” These writings are a validation of our experiences and journeys to overcome struggles as women. Yet, narrative alone is not enough, as many of us know who have taken on these challenges of transforming communities and systems. Change occurs through the actions and resolve of individuals who courageously take on these issues. Assuredly, in this text, you’ll find this scale of synergistic energy as well. L. Sunny Hansen uses a poignant metaphor that “we are all quilters on this planet, seeking to understand, value, and connect with each other in a sustainable future free from violence.” Identifying where you fit into this “quilt” is, in part, what the authors writing here want you to examine. Urging you into identifying the essential role you might play in “sewing” together a better future for all humanity.” Heather Zeng, Ph.D., Human Resource Development Consultant / Career Counselo, (Freemont, California) “Significantly real world, unrelenting, and ultra-compelling are but a few defining indicators to describe these writings. This discriminating collection expresses the decisive dimensions that embody grassroots to global settings. From the evidenced shared aims of humanity reflected in the versatile matter-of-fact life experiences to the clearly conveyed urgent need for immediate involvement, these treatises are foundational to halting and de-fragmenting the variant layers of widespread colonial and post-colonial systems of injustice. To arrest this worldwide convention of minority-majority dissent, cultural hegemony, warfare, gendered suffrage and the socio-economic-politics against civilization, will require a revolution of sorts. This integral text establishes a wide-ranging view towards that negotiation and resolve and further presents a medium of critical reasoning to execute social reconstruction to dismantle the inequality that wrongly saturates macro to micro communities. No matter what societal position validates your being, this profound volume is a must read.” Arnold Munroe, Ed.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Educational Studies Department, University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida) “This book illustrates the profoundly personal quest of “women moving forward” despite the burden of geopolitical place, structural and cultural constraints, economic hardship, and gender. The whole balances a celebration of localized and personalized advancements with a portrait of daily struggles for justice. Women write of finding strength in their families, ethnicities, culture, and spiritual beliefs, while confronting unequal footing in personal and professional spaces and private and public places. This work offers inspiration, as well as critical assessments of what women have endured, what they are enduring, and for what they are striving.” Patricia Widener, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University (Davie, Florida) “This uplifting book engages with the dilemmas and joys facing all those women who, at some time in their lives, have had to cross borders of one sort or another. The United States is the point of arrival for most contributors, and their earlier experiences—as immigrant, refugee or displaced person, as educational or health migrant, or as seeker after freedom and opportunity—emerge vividly from every page. The rich cultural diversity of this volume extends to Latin America, Jamaica, Palestine, Africa and Finland with a series of thought-provoking tales of sorrow, hope and, particularly, of faith. Interdisciplinary contributions include fields as diverse as traumatic exposure, second language acquisition and human trafficking. Women Moving Forward provides an essential source—not only an inspiration to those women still forced to follow similar paths but a necessary stimulant to evoking understanding, sympathy and support from those whose way has been less traumatic. It will be rewarding reading for all.” Brenda Bolton, University of London (London, England, U.K.)

El amor es un misterio. Si estuvieses aquí aún, nos miraríamos con cierto pánico. La sospecha de que el otro sólo existe a costa de un tercero socava la pureza de cualquier altruismo. Propiciatoria es la víctima que une a los depredadores. Matanza ritual de los iguales. Tal el horror de los primeros sacrificios. Humanos. Cualquier sociedad está construida sobre este hecho atroz que abre lo simbólico, un engaño que permite concitar en uno solo o en unos pocos todas las violencias del resto del grupo.

Mystique is a shape-shifting mutant and former terrorist, recruited by Professor Xavier of the X-Men to be a secret agent. Her current mission: to find and destroy a deadly new strain of smallpox...one that's spread telepathically! Problem is, she's not the only mutant who wants to get her hands on this potentially apocalyptic bio-weapon!

Ral Luis del Sacramento Fernndez Hidalgo Naci en La Habana el 21 de Junio de 1946. A los 18 aos comenz a trabajar como maestro, no titulado, en el departamento de educacin obrera campesina. En 1968, al desmovilizarse del Servicio Militar Obligatorio pas un corto entrenamiento para maestro de secundaria bsica, lo que le permiti trabajar como profesor no titulado primero. Despus se gradu como profesor de secundaria bsica en 1972 y ms tarde complet su licenciatura en lengua inglesa en la Facultad de Filologa de la Universidad de La Habana. Desde casi un nio se vio envuelto en diferentes actividades y conspiraciones en contra del gobierno comunista de Cuba. En 1989 fue puesto preso, condenado a 5 aos de privacin de libertad. En 1990 escribi La cuadra en que vivo, inspirada en el valor que mostraban prisioneros confinados que mantenan el humor por encima del dolor. En 1991 se incorpor al Movimiento de Derechos Humanos como vicepresidente del Consejo por los Derechos Civiles en Cuba. En 1994 huy de su pas en balsa, siendo remitido por el servicio guarda costa norteamericano a la Base Naval de Guantnamo, donde adems de participar en otras muchas actividades, lleg a ser el Director del Burkely Education Institute, bajo los auspicios de World Relief, agencia del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos encargada de asistir a las personas confinadas a los campamentos de Guantnamo. En Octubre de 1995 lleg a Estados Unidos, donde trabaj primero como Security Officer y despus como profesor, completando los requerimientos profesionales para obtener un Professional Educator Certificate en el 2003. Es ciudadano de EE.UU. desde el ao 2004

Dime que soy tuya es el resultado final de la dilatada dedicación del autor a la resolución de conflictos de pareja. La constante y reflexiva observación del complejo entramado de intercambios que constituye toda relación amorosa le llevó a la conclusión de que la posesividad es la noción básica en torno a la que se articulan esas relaciones. Los vínculos eróticos, emocionales y convivenciales que constituyen las relaciones sentimentales no son sino formas en que el uno posee al otro. Lejos de cuestionar la posesividad como intrínsecamente negativa, el autor insiste en que es imprescindible para las relaciones de pareja y en que, entendida y asumida correctamente, permite preservarlas y enriquecerlas. A través del relato ameno e incisivo de numerosas historias reales, y con un lenguaje plenamente asequible, el autor da cuenta de las diferencias entre la posesividad masculina y femenina y de las diferentes intensidades que revisten las relaciones de posesión, hasta llegar a los casos más extremos que lindan con lo patológico o incluso con lo socialmente considerado pervertido. Dime que soy tuya ayudará sin duda al lector a comprender su propia relación de pareja y las obsesiones que con frecuencia la acompañan. Las contemplará bajo una nueva luz, insospechada, pero al tiempo fuertemente intuitiva, y estará en condiciones de resolver con mejor criterio y menor ansiedad sus problemas sentimentales.

En las sociedades capitalistas más desarrolladas, progresivamente despobladas y envejecidas, la mayoría de los dispositivos humanos son biopolíticos, es decir, no matan, aunque sirven para realizar ajustes demográficos a largo plazo. El modelo tanatopolítico permanece dormido, como a la espera, en la agenda del Estado que las rige. La impostura política prolifera dentro de tales sociedades debido a que rara vez se reconoce en público que casi todos sus miembros están amortizados en las cuentas del capital, que graciosamente puede regalarles la vida o puede, si el coste es aún menor, directamente matarlos. "El trabajo fue consumación de series disciplinarias, fin último de los hombres construidos en la relación-capital, apoteosis de la producción capitalista. Ya no lo es: ha cambiado su función. Hoy el trabajo en los centros del capitalismo globalizado es, en gran parte, trabajo inútil desde el punto de vista de la producción en general, pero sigue siendo el principal criterio de clasificación y distribución de hombres", Raúl Fernández Vítores.