“You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman

“You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman

Queen Afua created the Sacred Woman as a text and program that seeks to heal women of common disorders that particularly affect the African American community. This thesis project is a conversation about the self-care methods embedded within the text that moves away from the ideology of the strongbl...

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Main Author: Pettijohn, Brandy j
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2015
Subjects:
Womanism
Spiritual Activism
Self-Care
Black Women
Strongblackwoman
Online Access:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/wsi_theses/53
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=wsi_theses
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spelling ndltd-GEORGIA-oai-scholarworks.gsu.edu-wsi_theses-10562016-01-22T03:41:07Z “You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman Pettijohn, Brandy j Queen Afua created the Sacred Woman as a text and program that seeks to heal women of common disorders that particularly affect the African American community. This thesis project is a conversation about the self-care methods embedded within the text that moves away from the ideology of the strongblackwoman. I position both theories and methods of self-care by using a womanist theoretical framework, as well as textual analysis and interviews as methods that examine the womanist concept of spiritual activism, which expands what is thought of as radical and liberatory activist actions. 2015-12-16T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/wsi_theses/53 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=wsi_theses Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Womanism Spiritual Activism Self-Care Black Women Strongblackwoman
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topic Womanism
Spiritual Activism
Self-Care
Black Women
Strongblackwoman
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Spiritual Activism
Self-Care
Black Women
Strongblackwoman
Pettijohn, Brandy j
“You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman
description Queen Afua created the Sacred Woman as a text and program that seeks to heal women of common disorders that particularly affect the African American community. This thesis project is a conversation about the self-care methods embedded within the text that moves away from the ideology of the strongblackwoman. I position both theories and methods of self-care by using a womanist theoretical framework, as well as textual analysis and interviews as methods that examine the womanist concept of spiritual activism, which expands what is thought of as radical and liberatory activist actions.
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title “You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman
title_short “You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman
title_full “You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman
title_fullStr “You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman
title_full_unstemmed “You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman
title_sort “you can’t pour from an empty cup”: self-care and spiritual activism in queen afua’s sacred woman
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