Feminism, Community, and Communication

ISBN-13: 9780789011527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 170 str.

Mary E. Olson

Opis

...from the minds of therapists on the cutting edge This informative, innovative collection brings together the work of a group of scholar-therapists, all women, who have met regularly for ten years to discuss family therapy, gender, and postmodern ideas. The major themes--feminism, community, and communication--are taken in new directions. Feminism, Community, and Communication rethinks therapy, research, teaching, and community work with a renewed emphasis on collaboration, intersubjectivity, and the process of communication as a world-making and identity-making activity. The issues of gender, culture, religion, race, and class figure prominently in this book.In Feminism, Community, and Communication you'll find descriptions of: communal perspectives for therapists that stress listening and understanding over interpreting and knowing the power of love and spirituality in relation to organizational consultation to an agency beset by racial division research on anorexia and what it means a mentoring project for rural girls the Bar/Bat Mitzva as therapy an ethnographic study of Lebanese women Feminism, Community, and Communication takes an exciting, fresh look at these three intertwined concepts, representing a way of thinking and doing therapy, research, community work, and training that highlights the ethical dimension of each. The book takes the position that human beings are meaning-makers in a common world, and not simply objects to be scrutinized or assessed by experts.

Spis treści

Contents

• Introduction: A Patchwork Quilt
• A Communal Perspective for Relational Therapies
• In Search of Subjugated Knowledge
• Listening to the Voices of Anorexia: The Researcher as an Outsider-Witness
• Nobody Tells You Who You Are: First Notes on a Community Project for Girls and Women in Rural Massachusetts
• Can You Love Them Enough? Organizational Consulting as a Spiritual Quest
• The Talking Oppression Blues: Including the Experience of Power/Powerlessness in the Teaching of Cultural Sensitivity
• Theorizing Culture: Narrative Ideas and Practice Principles
• Ritual as Therapy, Therapy as Ritual
• Feminism in the Middle East: Reflections on Ethnographic Research in Lebanon
• Interviews
• An Interview with Janine Roberts
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Betty Mackune-Karrer