ISBN:
9780918393517
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (141 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism
DDC:
305.4/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this enlightening book, women of color eloquently and honestly articulate the impact of racism, sexism, and poverty on their personal lives and on the histories of their people. They express anger at the failure of traditional psychiatry and psychology--which tend to advocate assimilation, meaning the denial of one's cultural and historical identity--to understand the struggles and problems in their lives. The contributors to The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism--who come from both inside and outside the psychological disciplines--examine newer therapies in which women are enco
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; EDITORIAL; ""All Power to the People!" But How?; A Song; En la Lucha: The Economic and Socioemotional Struggles of Puerto Rican Women; I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities; I Am a Woman; Asian-American Women: Psychological Responses to Sexual Exploitation and Cultural Stereotypes; Feminist Therapy with Hispanic/Latina Women: Myth or Reality?; The Impostor; The Necessary Bitch; ""Conscious Subjectivity" or Use of One's Self in Therapeutic Process; First Dialogue
Description / Table of Contents:
Marxism, Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A View from Latin AmericaVisit to the Dentist: Dialectics; Poor Women of Color Do Great Therapy
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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