inspiration
participants
More than 100 women graciously let us photograph their hands. Learn more about them.
books.... a few standouts
- Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage, and Beauty
by Joyce Tenneson (Bulfinch Press Books, 2002) - Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry (Doubleday, 2000) - Women: Photographs by Annie Leibovitz, Essay by Susan Sontag (Doubleday, 1999)
ucla and w@w
Susan thanks UCLA's Center for the Study of Women, particularly Regina Lark and Chris Littleton, for support of this project from 2004 to 2007.
Susan and Marvelle gratefully acknowledge the helping hand of Dr. Elena DeVos at Words @ Work.
thanks to Jewel Kilcher for hands
Jewel sings "Hands" live ~ Click 
to watch
This official 1998 video, directed by Nick Brandt, begins with Jewel driving along on a rainy night when she comes across emergency workers responding to a collapsed apartment building. She gets out of her car and stands with the crowd looking at the rubble and notices other onlookers walking away in horror and hopelessness. She follows others into the rubble and helps dig through the rubble for survivors, finding a man, alive, under the rubble and later three young children trapped inside a room. Throughout the whole video, she remains calm and collected, full of hope, as chaos ensues around her.
from> Wikipedia > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_(Jewel_song)
