Latina Realities : Essays On Healing, Migration, And Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780813332345 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 216 str.

Oliva M. Espin

Opis

A retrospective of fifteen years, this book brings together, for the first time, Oliva Espin's previously published articles and conference papers. Together, these writings reveal the complexity and encompassing quality of Espin's most significant contributions to the contemporary debates within psychology. Topics include sexuality, therapy with Latinas and other women of color, immigrant and refugee women, ethnic minority and immigrant women of diverse sexual orientations, and theoretical perspectives on feminist psychology and diversity.Primarily focusing on the experiences of Latina women, gleaned from psychotherapy practice and research, the book presents discussions on experience as a source of theory and method in psychology; issues relevant to immigrant women and girls, such as sexuality and language; and other similar topics.Latina Realities is bound to be a valuable text for advanced courses exploring diversity in psychology and women's lives as well as a useful supplementary reading for introductory courses in psychology of women, women's studies, cultural psychology, and other gender or ethnic issues courses."

Spis treści

Foreword: The Enigma of Arrival—Journey and Transformation -- Preface -- Experience as a Source of Theory and Method -- Giving Voice to Silence: The Psychologist as Witness -- Roots Uprooted: Autobiographical Reflections on the Psychological Experience of Migration -- Feminist Psychology and Psychotherapy -- Women’s Diversity: Ethnicity, Race, Class and Gender in Theories of Feminist Psychology -- Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women of Color -- On Knowing You Are the Unknown: Women of Color Constructing Psychology -- Sexuality -- Cultural and Historical Influences on Sexuality in Hispanic/Latin Women: Implications for Psychotherapy -- Issues of Identity in the Psychology of Latina lesbians -- Immigrant Women and Adolescents -- Psychological Impact of Migration on Latinas: Implications for Psychotherapeutic Practice -- Letters from V.: Adolescent Personality Development in Sociohistorical Context -- Traumatic Historical Events and Adolescent Psychosocial Development: Letters from V. -- Spiritual Power and the Mundane World: Hispanic Female Healers in Urban U.S. Communities -- The Interplay of Migration and Sexuality in Women’s lives -- “Race,” Racism, and Sexuality in the Life Narratives of Immigrant Women -- Leaving the Nation and Joining the Tribe: Lesbian Immigrants Crossing Geographical and Identity Borders

O autorze

Oliva Espin