BOOKS

This manuscript in progress is a collection of personal essays and women's stories connected to the embodied feminine journey. (Art: Sphinx Moon Lady by A. Sigov.)

The second riddle of the Sphinx is about two sisters who each give birth to the other by turn. Day and Night. Sun and Moon. Darkness and Light. Community and trauma, mysticism and healing. As women, we cycle through the days and nights of the soul in ways that are unique to us. Recognizing ourselves in one another.

Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Understanding the Enemy’s Moral Universe—addresses the most critical political problem of our time: how to negotiate seemingly incompatible moral values between nations. Boyd-Judson uses the US and UN negotiations with Iran, Libya, Zimbabwe, and Haiti to illustrate the practical application of strategic moral diplomacy. Through personal interviews with negotiators and those close to them, she unearths the complex moral positions held by those involved.

For many women around the globe, health has become the central intersection of the personal and the political; women's bodies are the arena for policy debates about population, poverty, reproduction, and morality. This edited book is a comprehensive assessment of health for women around the globe that will inform debates underway in public health, most obviously, but also sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines.