Latina Realities: Essays On Healing, Migration, And Sexuality (New Directions in Theory and Psychology)

224 Pages·1997·8.952 MB·English

by  Oliva Espin

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Latina Realities

New Directions in Theory and Psychology
Series Editors
Rachel T. Hare-Mustin and Jeanne Marecek
Focusing on emerging theory in psychology and related fields, this scholarly/trade se¬
ries examines contemporary ideas broadly associated with postmodernism, social con¬
structionism, feminist theory, and other critical reformulations of psychology. We seek
manuscripts that propose or exemplify new ways of doing psychology, that reconsider
foundational assumptions of psychological inquiry and practice, and that offer new ap¬
proaches to therapy theory and practice. Among the topics considered are the social
construction of such categories of difference/hierarchy as gender, race and ethnicity,
class, and sexuality; and the politics of knowledge. Of interest as well are works that ex¬
amine ways in which psychology—as a body of knowledge and a cultural institution—
replicates or challenges arrangements of power and privilege in society.
Rachel T. Hare-Mustin, Villanova University, and Jeanne Marecek, Swarthmore
College, coauthored Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Gender.
Books in This Series
Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality, Oliva M. Espin
Through the Looking Glass:
Women and Borderline Personality Disorder, Dana Becker
Mens Ways of Being,
edited by Christopher McLean, Maggie Carey, and Cheryl White
Sex Is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays, Leonore Tiefer
Celebrating the Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature,
Edward E. Sampson
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