Our Ministry to Women Award honors individuals or organizations that have ministered to women in an outstanding manner. The first of the award’s distinguished list of recipients – selected by the Board of Trustees – was Ms. Magazine in 1974. Others honored include May Sarton, Marian Wright Edelman, Tillie Olsen, Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Dr. Jean Baker Miller.
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| To visit Dr. Eisler's website - www.partnershipway.org - click on her image. |
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Dr. Eisler’s latest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, proposes a new economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and the planet. In addition to The Chalice and The Blade, her previous books include The Power of Partnership and Tomorrow’s Children, as well as Sacred Pleasure, a daring reexamination of sexuality and spirituality, and Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life, which statistically documents the key role of the status of women in a nation’s general quality of life.
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2007 – Dr. Riane Eisler, eminent social scientist, attorney, social activist, and author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future
2006 - Shirley Ranck, Ph.D., author of the ground-breaking adult religious education curriculum, Cakes for the Queen of Heaven
2005 – Sarah Weddington, lead attorney in Roe v Wade, and women from the Alliance of the First Unitarian Church of Dallas, for their support of landmark case during its early stages.
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| Rev. Laurel Hallman, minister of the First Unitarian Church in Dallas, with four of the women from the church’s Alliance who supported Roe v Wade during its early stages and received our 2005 Ministry to Women Award. Left to right: Virginia Whitehill, Mary Lou Hoffman, Pat Cookston Davidson, Rev. Hallman, Linda Coffee. |
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