Lenora Fulani

The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This enriching volume looks at psychology, social change, and community empowerment. Women of color from both inside and outside the psychological community and discipline explore a history of personal tragedy largely due to racism and poverty. The failure of traditional psychiatry and psychology to understand the struggles and problems in the lives of women of color is contrasted with the newer therapies that advocate the notion that one's historywho one ishas relevance to the study of psychology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 153mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780918393517
• ISBN-10: 0918393515
• Artikelnr.: 21891004

Autorenporträt

Lenora Fulani

Inhaltsangabe

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
* Marxism, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: A View From Latin America
* Visit to the Dentist: Dialectics
* Poor Women of Color Do Great Therapy