Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in

Text brings together notable feminist contributors to examine and deconstruct the mores that have traditionally guided family therapy. Examines family issues such as divorce, adolescent-parent relationships, step-families, and couple intimacy. For practitioners.

Contributors

xi

Foreword

xiii

Rachel T. Hare-Mustin

Preface

xv

Acknowledgments

xix

I. CONSIDERING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF FEMINISM IN FAMILY THERAPY

1

(36)

A Feminist Family Therapist's Work Is Never Done

3

(14)

Thelma Jean Goodrich

Classic Texts and Early Critiques

17

(20)

Louise B. Silverstein

II. REFRAMING LIFE-CYCLE ISSUES

37

(68)

Over the Rainbow: The Lesbian Family

39

(12)

Kris Halstead

``I Can't Go Back'': Divorce as Adaptive Resistance

51

(14)

Joy K. Rice

Repairing the World: An Adolescent and Her Parents

65

(14)

Kaethe Weingarten

Loyalty to Family of Origin

79

(12)

Roberta L. Nutt

Gender in Stepfamilies: Daughters and Fathers

91

(14)

Anne C. Bernstein

III. CONTEXTUALIZING RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN FAMILIES

105

(56)

Contemporary African American Families

107

(14)

Ruth L. Hall

Beverly Greene

Relationships Between Women in Families: Voices of Chivalry

121

(14)

Leslye King Mize

Confucian Past, Conflicted Present: Working With Asian American Families

135

(12)

Liang Tien

Kari Olson

The Black Madonna: The Psychospiritual Feminism of Guadalupe, Kali, and Monserrat

147

(14)

Lillian Comas-Diaz

IV. RECOGNIZING POWER IN FAMILIES

161

(78)

Helping Men Embrace Equality

163

(14)

Gary R. Brooks

Treating Male Alexithymia

177

(12)

Ronald F. Levant

Women's Secrets in Therapy

189

(10)

Evan Imber-Black

Gendered Constraints to Intimacy in Heterosexual Couples

199

(12)

Cheryl Rampage

Gender, Marriage, and Depression

211

(14)

Peggy Papp

Bringing Power From the Margins to the Center

225

(14)

Lynn Parker

V. ANALYZING SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS

239

(52)

Incarcerated African American Women

241

(12)

Janet Brice-Baker

A Venn Diagram: Feminism, Family Therapy, and Family Medicine

253

(14)

Lucy M. Candib

Gender, Couples, and Illness: A Feminist Analysis of Medical Family Therapy

267

(14)

Susan H. McDaniel

Kathleen Cole-Kelly

The Women's Center: Feminism in the Treatment of AIDS

281

(10)

Anitra Pivnick

VI. ADDRESSING SOCIOPOLITICAL FORCES

291

(58)

Creating Collectives of Liberation

293

(14)

Rhea V. Almeida

Biracial Lesbian-Led Adoptive Families

307

(12)

Natalie S. Eldridge

Susan E. Barrett

Assessment of Domestic Violence

319

(14)

Michele Harway

Class, Culture, and Gender in Immigrant Families

333

(16)

Jaime Inclan

VII. EXAMINING SUPERVISION IN FEMINIST FAMILY THERAPY

349

(30)

The Gender Metaframework

351

(14)

Betty Mac Kune-Karrer

Catherine Weigel Foy

Naming Injustice, Engendering Hope: Tensions in Feminist Family Therapy Training

365

(14)

Jean Turner

Judith Myers Avis

Author Index

379

(6)

Subject Index

385

(8)

About the Editors

393

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