Gender and Women’s Studies director Dr. Beth Berila has published a new book that offers practical support for social change agents as they navigate common challenges along their journey.
“Radiating Feminism: Resilience Practices to Transform our Inner and Outer Lives” was released July 28 by Routledge. The book is a practical guide to embodying feminist principles in not just politics, but also in “our very ways of being.”
Bringing together intersectional feminism with mindful reflection and embodied practice, “Radical Feminism” offers practical wisdom for living by feminist principles in daily life. Each chapter includes practices and interactive activities to help navigate common challenges along feminist journeys. The book also draws on wisdom from feminist leaders and contemporary conversations from social justice movements. Both inspiring and guiding, the book will provide readers with the skills to cultivate resilience to face the many barriers to feminist social transformation.
“Radiating Feminism” will be of use to students of Gender Studies, Social Work, Psychology, Community Health, and the Social Sciences, and anyone with a longstanding or fresh commitment to feminism and social justice.
Berila is director of the Gender and Women’s Studies program at St. Cloud State University. She Her work focuses on the intersections of feminism, yoga and embodied social justice. Berila is the author of “Integrating Mindfulness into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy: Social Justice in Higher Education.”
