Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation

Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation
Author: Debra M. Kawahara
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135804567

Understanding multicultural feminist perspectives is vital for clinicians working to effectively help women in therapy. Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy provides therapists with valuable insight and research into the identities of Asian and Asian American women, all toward the crucial goal of being more effective when providing therapeutic help. In-depth explorations into the women’s personal experiences and psychological issues provide an empowering multicultural feminist viewpoint that challenges assumptions and stereotypes about their identities while presenting innovative therapeutic approaches. Identity is made up from several factors, such as worldview, beliefs, values, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, age, and religious orientation. Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy explores how these common factors impact psychotherapy approaches for women of Asian American backgrounds. This unique text presents the current research, what the data mean for adjusting clinical strategies, and personal accounts from Asian and Asian American women. Each chapter is extensively referenced. Topics in Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy include: breaking free of the passive, subservient stereotypes defining gender identity cultural and identity issues emotional parity negotiations in Chinese immigrant women’s marital relationships suicide as a means of agency rather than simply a cry for help the use of feminist and multicultural principles with survivors of domestic violence research on Asian American lesbians’ health integrating multiculturalism and feminism in the treatment of eating disorders innovative therapeutic approach based on Hindu understandings of Shakti approaches to work on body image and eating disorders group counseling with Asian American women training multicultural feminist therapy practitioners Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy is an insightful exploration of the culturally sensitive knowledge and skills clinicians need to work more effectively with female clients of Asian ancestry. This stimulating work is important reading for therapists, counselors, psychologists, and others in the mental health and social work fields.

Feminist Therapy with Latina Women

Feminist Therapy with Latina Women
Author: Debra M. Kawahara
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317985109

Feminist Therapy with Latina Women highlights the principles of feminist and multicultural counselling and therapy with Latinas and Latin American women, providing both theoretical approaches and applied frameworks. The authors are all experienced therapists and researchers with a deep understanding of the issues relevant to this particular population. In presenting their expertise, they discuss individual concerns and social context, applying it concretely to the personal and collective lives of Latina women. Chapters focus on the intersecting principles of feminism and multiculturalism, providing a much needed contribution to the field, with topics including domestic violence, eating disorders and body image, addictive behaviours, sexuality, immigrant and refugee experiences, and balancing the multiple roles of work and family. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women & Therapy.

Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

Practising Feminist Political Ecologies
Author: Wendy Harcourt
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178360090X

Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the ‘green economy’, it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of the current ecological and economic crises on women as well as their communities and ecologies. This new, politically timely and engaging text puts feminist political ecology back on the map.

Fleshing the Spirit

Fleshing the Spirit
Author: Elisa Facio
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816598916

Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers exploring the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. Examining the complex and dynamic connections among these concepts, the writers emphasize the value of “flesh and blood experience” as a site of knowledge. They argue that spirituality—something quite different from institutional religious practice—can heal the mind/body split and set the stage for social change. Spirituality, they argue, is a necessary component of an alternative political agenda focused on equitable social and ecological change. The anthology incorporates different genres of writing—such as poetry, testimonials, critical essays, and historical analysis—and stimulates the reader to engage spirituality in a critical, personal, and creative way. This interdisciplinary work is the first that attempts to theorize the radical interconnection between women of color, spirituality, and social activism. Before transformative political work can be done, the authors say in multiple ways, we must recognize that our spiritual need is a desire to more fully understand our relations with others. Conflict experienced on many levels sometimes severs those relations, separating us from others along racial, class, gender, sexual, national, or other socially constructed lines. Fleshing the Spirit offers a spiritual journey of healing, health, and human revolution. The book’s open invitation to engage in critical dialogue and social activism—with the spirit and spirituality at the forefront—illuminates the way to social change and the ability to live in harmony with life’s universal energies. Contributors Volume Editors Elisa Facio Irene Lara Chapter Authors Angelita Borbón Norma E. Cantú Berenice Dimas C. Alejandra Elenes Alicia Enciso Litschi Oliva M. Espín Maria Figueroa Patrisia Gonzales Inés Hernández- Avila Rosa María Hernández Juárez Cinthya Martinez Lara Medina Felicia Montes Sarahi Nuñez- Mejia Laura E. Pérez Brenda Sendejo Inés Talamantez Michelle Téllez Beatriz Villegas

Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life

Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life
Author: Karen Mui-Teng Quek
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 331950679X

This research-to-practice volume grounds clinicians in a robust, culturally-informed framework for conducting effective therapy with Asian-American couples, families, and individuals. Family, cultural, social, and spiritual dynamics are explored across ethnicities, generations, relationships, and immigrant/citizen experience to reflect a diverse, growing population. Discussion and case examples focus on contrasts, conflicts, and balances involved in acculturation and change, notably the shift from collectivist cultural tradition to a more independent view of the self, gender, choices, and relationships. The contributors’ finely shaded guidance and accessible approach will help therapists provide appropriate services for Asian-American clients without minimizing or pathologizing their experiences. Included in the coverage: How Asian American couples negotiate relational harmony: collectivism and gender equality. Through religion: working-class Korean immigrant women negotiate patriarchy. The role of Chinese grandparents in their adult children’s parenting practices in the United States. Balancing the old and the new: the case of second generation Filipino American women. Bicultural identity as a protective factor among Southeast Asian American youth who have witnessed domestic violence. Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life is a cogent clinical resource for practitioners and mental health professionals with interests in Asian-American family therapy, psychotherapy, collectivism, and faith-based community and counseling.

Preserving on Paper

Preserving on Paper
Author: Kristine Kowalchuk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2017-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 148751011X

Apricot wine and stewed calf’s head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses." Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books–handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Kristine Kowalchuk argues that receipt books served as a form of folk writing, where knowledge was shared and passed between generations. These texts played an important role in the history of women’s writing and literacy and contributed greatly to issues of authorship, authority, and book history. Kowalchuk’s revelatory interdisciplinary study offers unique insights into early modern women’s writings and the original sharing economy.

Leadership Enrichment and Development

Leadership Enrichment and Development
Author: Gail Simpson Cahill
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2024-11-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040227023

This book shares the LEAD (Leadership Enrichment and Development) method, a framework for supporting and facilitating leadership identity development for women in higher education. Guided by feminist group processes and relational learning, the chapters in this volume illustrate the impacts of self- and peer mentorship on the authors. Part lived experience, part reflection on scholarship on women’s leadership development, this book has implications for those in leadership development settings across professional sectors and career trajectories, offering strategies, implications, and insights for those developing or seeking to learn about peer mentoring programming for women faculty. Women faculty, leadership development coaches, faculty development leaders, directors of centers for teaching excellence, program leaders focused on girls’ and women’s leader development, and students and scholars interested in women’s leadership development in higher education will find this volume of interest. While LEAD’s context is higher education, the volume offers valuable application to other professional settings where women work, lead, and thrive.

Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies

Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies
Author: Kalpana Kannabiran
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351799266

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: re-presenting feminist methodologies -- Part I Mapping terrains -- Section 1: Feminist journeys -- 1 Studying women and the women's movement in India: methods and impressions -- 2 'To bounce like a ball that has been hit': feminist reflections on the family -- 3 Masculinities in fieldwork: notes on feminist methodology -- 4 Real-life methods: feminist explorations of segregation in Delhi -- Section 2: Unpacking disciplines -- 5 Stories we tell: feminism, science, methodology -- 6 Researching online worlds through a feminist lens: text, context and assemblages -- 7 The erotics of risk: feminism and the humanities in flagrante delicto -- 8 Impractical topics, practical fields: notes on researching sexual violence in India -- Part II Exploring themes -- Section 3: Development -- 9 Planning for modernization? feminist readings of plans and planned development in India -- 10 Unpacking 'win-win': how feminists interrogate microfinance -- 11 Globalizations, mobility and agency: understanding women's lives through women's voices -- 12 'Ladkiyaan phir aage?' towards understanding the formal school system -- Section 4: Health -- 13 Researching assisted conception from a feminist lens -- 14 RUWSEC Clinic: challenges faced by a grassroots feminist clinic -- 15 Feminist critical medical anthropology methodologies: understanding gender and health care in India -- Index

The Women, Gender and Development Reader

The Women, Gender and Development Reader
Author: Nalini Visvanathan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2011-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848135882

The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array of global case studies. This now classic book, has been designed as a comprehensive reader, presenting the best of the now vast body of literature. The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. The result is a unique and extensive discussion, a guide to the evolution of the field, and a vital point of reference for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.