Feminism, Community, and Communication

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Communication, Religion & Spirituality, New Age

• Author: Betty Mackune-Karrer, Mary E Olson
• ISBN: 9781317956907
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Publication: June 3, 2014
• Imprint: Routledge
• Language: English

. . . 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.”