1st Edition

Feminism, Community, and Communication

By Betty Mackune-Karrer, Mary E Olson Copyright 2000
    170 Pages
    by Routledge

    170 Pages
    by Routledge

    . . . 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.”

    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

    Biography

    Betty Mackune-Karrer