Pub Date : 2021-09-12DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1971434
Elizabeth A. Bennett, Lori E. Koelsch, Susannah R. Kuppers, Sheree King Ash
Abstract In this article, we present a review of the #MeToo movement alongside therapeutic, feminist self-disclosure by situating feminist self-disclosure in dialogue with and in response to the current #MeToo era of mainstream self-disclosures regarding sexual violence. We consider issues of transference and countertransference when therapists who are survivors work with survivors of sexual violence in therapy, and we employ the categories of the Feminist Self-Disclosure Scale as a guiding framework for the possible benefits of therapist self-disclosure in relation to #MeToo. We discuss different and provocative ways in which feminist clinicians conceptualize self-disclosure as compared to dominant therapeutic models, while also exploring potential ethical questions. Importantly, we present eight suggested practices that have developed through our engagement with clinical work. These suggested practices range from exploring the therapist’s use of office décor to utilizing supervision as a modality for discussing survivorship; within each suggested practice, we provide a clinical example to illuminate the practice and provide a concrete way in which the reader might employ the practice. We also provide ideas for therapists who are not survivors themselves to convey allyship.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-17DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1961432
Britney G. Brinkman, Kathi Elliott, Shacoya L. Bates, Orlandria Smith
Abstract According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice statistics, 1 in 4 Black girls will be sexually abused before the age of 18. The founder of the #Metoo movement, Ms. Tarana Burke, originally designed the hashtag to help bring awareness to Black women and girls from underprivileged communities that experienced rape or sexual assault. However, the phrase was co-opted by White women sharing their experience of being sexually violated or harassed on social media which resulted in Black girls’ experiences being left in the shadows, silencing their experiences. Here we describe the advocacy work of a community coalition dedicated to eradicating inequities Black girls’ experience in systems, including schools, the criminal justice system, and social services. We document our work regarding Black girls' experiences of sexual harassment in schools. We developed a community-based participatory action research project to center Black girls' perspectives about sexual harassment. We administered anonymous surveys to 45 Black girls in grades 7–12. Our findings demonstrate that girls experience a range of sexual harassment behaviors in person and online and report numerous adverse emotional, physical, and educational impacts.
{"title":"Centering Black Girls in Sexual Harassment Research: A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Approach","authors":"Britney G. Brinkman, Kathi Elliott, Shacoya L. Bates, Orlandria Smith","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1961432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1961432","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice statistics, 1 in 4 Black girls will be sexually abused before the age of 18. The founder of the #Metoo movement, Ms. Tarana Burke, originally designed the hashtag to help bring awareness to Black women and girls from underprivileged communities that experienced rape or sexual assault. However, the phrase was co-opted by White women sharing their experience of being sexually violated or harassed on social media which resulted in Black girls’ experiences being left in the shadows, silencing their experiences. Here we describe the advocacy work of a community coalition dedicated to eradicating inequities Black girls’ experience in systems, including schools, the criminal justice system, and social services. We document our work regarding Black girls' experiences of sexual harassment in schools. We developed a community-based participatory action research project to center Black girls' perspectives about sexual harassment. We administered anonymous surveys to 45 Black girls in grades 7–12. Our findings demonstrate that girls experience a range of sexual harassment behaviors in person and online and report numerous adverse emotional, physical, and educational impacts.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48140647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1961434
Lorien S. Jordan
Abstract In this article, I problematize sexual violence as a gendered and raced tool of colonial dominance. Though the theoretical framework of settler colonialism, I demonstrate how colonialism in the United States influences current discourse and policy around sexual violence. First, I explore the ways that colonialism positions women as victims and chattel of men. Secondly, I consider why White women who are positioned thusly lean into the male dominance which disenfranchises them, thereby further disenfranchising other-embodied persons. Moving between a historical and contemporary review, I merge empirical and anecdotal evidence to make clear that sexual violence is the rule, not the exception. To conclude, liberation focused therapy and digital feminism is discussed for therapists who wish to confront the colonial forces that obfuscate the conditions under which sexual violence is produced.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1961437
Joshua L. Boe, Lorien S. Jordan, Émilie M. Ellis
Abstract Trans women experience sexual violence at alarming rates; however, due to societal cisnormativity, people often remain unaware of such rates. As digital feminist movements, such as #MeToo, gain momentum, this moment represents an opportune time to illuminate how trans exclusionary discourses may exist in feminist movements. Using transfeminist theory as an analytic tool, we discuss how the #MeToo movement may displace trans women’s bodies allowing for further violence to occur. Through disrupting the phallus as the “source” of sexual violence, we hope to reduce the assumption that trans women are sexual predators. In this call to action, we invite clinicians to take a stance to end transgender oppression and advocate for transformative change.
{"title":"#ThemToo?: Trans Women Exclusionary Discourses in the #MeToo Era","authors":"Joshua L. Boe, Lorien S. Jordan, Émilie M. Ellis","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1961437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1961437","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Trans women experience sexual violence at alarming rates; however, due to societal cisnormativity, people often remain unaware of such rates. As digital feminist movements, such as #MeToo, gain momentum, this moment represents an opportune time to illuminate how trans exclusionary discourses may exist in feminist movements. Using transfeminist theory as an analytic tool, we discuss how the #MeToo movement may displace trans women’s bodies allowing for further violence to occur. Through disrupting the phallus as the “source” of sexual violence, we hope to reduce the assumption that trans women are sexual predators. In this call to action, we invite clinicians to take a stance to end transgender oppression and advocate for transformative change.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42011006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-25DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1943114
T. Bryant-Davis, Bemi Fasalojo, Ana Arounian, Kirsten L. Jackson, Egypt Leithman
Black, Indigenous, and other Women of Color (BIWOC) are at increased risk for interpersonal trauma, including racial trauma. Interpersonal trauma has potentially deleterious emotional, cognitive, physical, social, and spiritual consequences. European models of trauma recovery often end their process with coping strategies and meaning-making; womanist psychology, which emerges from the cultural traditions of Black women’s experiences and wisdom, incorporates survivors’ adoption of resistance strategies to combat trauma and oppression. The authors present the Resist and Rise model for womanist trauma recovery groups, which frames each component as an act of resistance. Clinical, research, and policy implications are identified.
{"title":"Resist and Rise: A Trauma-Informed Womanist Model for Group Therapy","authors":"T. Bryant-Davis, Bemi Fasalojo, Ana Arounian, Kirsten L. Jackson, Egypt Leithman","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1943114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1943114","url":null,"abstract":"Black, Indigenous, and other Women of Color (BIWOC) are at increased risk for interpersonal trauma, including racial trauma. Interpersonal trauma has potentially deleterious emotional, cognitive, physical, social, and spiritual consequences. European models of trauma recovery often end their process with coping strategies and meaning-making; womanist psychology, which emerges from the cultural traditions of Black women’s experiences and wisdom, incorporates survivors’ adoption of resistance strategies to combat trauma and oppression. The authors present the Resist and Rise model for womanist trauma recovery groups, which frames each component as an act of resistance. Clinical, research, and policy implications are identified.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02703149.2021.1943114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42806951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1927400
Buffie Longmire-Avital, J. Finkelstein
As an agent of socialization, mothers directly impact the way their daughters think about their own weight. This qualitative study aimed to investigate and capture the recalled maternal communicati...
{"title":"“She Does Not Want Me to Be Like Her”: Exploring the Role of Maternal Communication in Eating Disorder Symptomatology Among Collegiate Black Women","authors":"Buffie Longmire-Avital, J. Finkelstein","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1927400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1927400","url":null,"abstract":"As an agent of socialization, mothers directly impact the way their daughters think about their own weight. This qualitative study aimed to investigate and capture the recalled maternal communicati...","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02703149.2021.1927400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47615423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2020.1775018
Varaporn Chamsanit, Ouyporn Khuankaew, S. Rungreangkulkij, Kathryn L. Norsworthy, Elizabeth M. Abrams
Abstract Using a feminist liberation framework, Thai mental health providers engaged in a structural and institutional analysis of intimate partner violence and developed a social justice based counseling approach based on their cultural contexts within Thailand. A Thai-centered power and control wheel was designed by project members for use in assessing and counseling survivors around the country. The coauthors, a Thai-U.S. team, describe the project methodology, which is informed by principles from liberation, post-colonial and decolonial frameworks, as well as transnational feminism, and is used in collaborating with participants to produce culture-centered knowledge and counseling approaches. Examples of how the Thai power and control is being utilized are provided.
{"title":"A Feminist Liberation Framework for Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in Thailand","authors":"Varaporn Chamsanit, Ouyporn Khuankaew, S. Rungreangkulkij, Kathryn L. Norsworthy, Elizabeth M. Abrams","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2020.1775018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2020.1775018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using a feminist liberation framework, Thai mental health providers engaged in a structural and institutional analysis of intimate partner violence and developed a social justice based counseling approach based on their cultural contexts within Thailand. A Thai-centered power and control wheel was designed by project members for use in assessing and counseling survivors around the country. The coauthors, a Thai-U.S. team, describe the project methodology, which is informed by principles from liberation, post-colonial and decolonial frameworks, as well as transnational feminism, and is used in collaborating with participants to produce culture-centered knowledge and counseling approaches. Examples of how the Thai power and control is being utilized are provided.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02703149.2020.1775018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41292943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-11DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1889826
Ellyn Kaschak
{"title":"Human Rights and Wrongs: 50 Years of Struggle and Change for Women","authors":"Ellyn Kaschak","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1889826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1889826","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02703149.2021.1889826","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44129017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-20DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2020.1857617
Rhea Kaikobad
Abstract This article discusses an intervention for rehabilitation of female survivors of violence that reconceptualizes rehabilitation through a feminist lens: the Sampoornata model of Dance Movement Therapy, which has been created and is being practiced by an NGO called Kolkata Sanved in Kolkata, India. Feminist rehabilitation is seen as a perspective which, in contrast to dominant rehabilitation praxis, recognizes that individual experiences of violence are embedded in patriarchal social structures and aims for survivors to internalize a sense of agency by deconstructing internalized patriarchal norms that legitimize violence against women and girls and stigmatization of survivors. The article highlights how Sampoornata enacts feminist rehabilitation through the medium of the body. Survivors reclaim the body from patriarchal control and reflect on the embodied experience in order to question patriarchal norms, remove self-blame, and negotiate a space for themselves within society.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2020.1729465
Nicole T. Buchanan, Desdamona Rios, Jane S. Halonen
Kim A. Case, Ph.D., is the Director of Faculty Success and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. As Director, she develops and implements faculty mentoring programs, supports faculty career development and scholarship productivity, and oversees the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Dr. Case also provides faculty development for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within learning environments and in support of retention of a diverse faculty. Her mixed-methods research examines ally behavior, interventions to increase understanding of intersectionality and privilege, prejudice reduction, and creation of inclusive spaces. She is editor of Deconstructing Privilege: Allies in the Classroom (2013) and Intersectional Pedagogy: Complicating Identity and Social Justice (2017). In service to national and international education and workplace settings, she provides faculty and leadership development promoting intersectional allies, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her scholarship, blog, and teaching resources are available at www.drkimcase.com
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