A song / Sonia Sanchez -- En la lucha : the economic and socioemotional struggles of Puerto Rican women / Iris Zavala-Martinez -- I am your sister : black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- I am a woman / Jessie Fields -- Asian-American women : psychological responses to sexual exploitation and cultural stereotypes / Connie S. Chan -- Feminist therapy with Hispanic/Latina women : myth or reality? / Lillian Comas-Diaz -- The impostor / Suzana Cabanas -- The necessary bitch / Judy Simmons -- "Conscious subjectivity" or use of one's self in therapeutic process / Virginia W. Hammond -- First dialogue / Milagros Gonzalez -- Marxism, psychoanalysis and feminism : a view from Latin America / Nancy Caro Hollander -- Visit to the dentist : dialectics / Martha Chabran -- Poor women of color do great therapy / Lenora Fulani
Summary
In this enlightening book, women of color eloquently and honestly articulate the impact of racism, sexism, and poverty on their personal lives and on the histories of their people. They express anger at the failure of traditional psychiatry and psychology--which tend to advocate assimilation, meaning the denial of one's cultural and historical identity--to understand the struggles and problems in their lives. The contributors to The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism--who come from both inside and outside the psychological disciplines--examine newer therapies in which women are enco
