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What is your 21st Century Women's Manifesto?
Mar 8 2009, 2:12 PM EDT | Post edited: Mar 8 2009, 2:12 PM EDT
Twenty-First Century Women’s Manifesto by Ananda Leeke
Copyright 2009 by Madelyn C. Leeke

(Excerpt from That Which Awakens Me: A Woman’s Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Ananda Leeke - published by iUniverse, Inc. in Spring/Summer 2009)

Women living in the twenty-first century are the beneficiaries of four movements that have defined and expanded their individual and collective power of choice. These movements include women’s rights, spirituality, self-help, and technology. The women’s rights movement empowered women to:

-claim, demand, and exercise their equal rights in all facets of society;
-live their lives on their own terms;
-document and educate themselves and others about their experiences, accomplishments, and history through art, literature, music, film, and other forms of cultural expression; and
-establish organizations, coalitions, and campaigns that advocate their interests and concerns.

The spirituality movement expanded the types of religious experiences and sacred practices women use to honor and nurture their spirits. The self-help movement provided a portfolio of tools women utilize to define, love, understand, accept, heal, and reinvent themselves emotionally, psychologically, and physically. The technology movement increased women’s capacity to:

-communicate and maintain relationships in the midst of their busy lives with the support of e-mail, voicemail, cellular phones, and text messaging;
-document and tell their life stories with social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, Utterli, Flickr, and YouTube;

Click here to read the entire post: http://kiamshacom.blogspot.com/2009/03/event-notice-march-8th-happy.html.

After you read it, please share your thoughts about your own 21st Century Manifesto. Do you find this valuable?    
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