SDSU Paris Semester - Spring 1999
FRENCH WOMEN SAINTS: THEIR LIVES AND WRITINGS
Course Description:
This course presents the role of women in French culture through the lens of the lives of selected women saints. Exploration of historical, cultural, and political contexts of sainthood and perceptions of holiness for women. Focus on common and dissimilar psychological processes among the women and on their resistance and accommodation to normative women's roles. Feminist and psychological analyses of their narratives and of hagiographic and critical analyses of their lives.
Texts:
- Bernanos, Georges (1949). Dialogues des Carmelites. Paris: Editions du Seuil.
- Saint Therese de l'Enfant Jesus (1956). Manuscripts Autobiographiques. Lisieux: Office Central de Lisieux. -
-Warner, Marina ).(1996). The Trial of Joan of Arc. Evesham, UK: Arthur James, Ltd.
-Le process de Jeanne d'Arc, Paris, France: Editions du Seuil.
WOMEN AS SPIRITUAL TEACHERS (WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CATHOLIC WOMEN SAINTS)
Fall 1998
Course Description:
This course draws widely
from the voices of women mystics and spiritual teachers, on history and mythology,
and on feminist theory and the psychology of women. Exploration of historical,
cultural, and political contexts of sainthood and perceptions of holiness for
women. Particular emphasis will be placed on Roman Catholic women saints as
a case study. Focus on common and dissimilar psychological processes among the
women and on their resistance and accommodation to normative women's roles.
Study of the lives and writings of Latin American, North American, and selected
European women saints. Feminist and psychological analyses of their narratives
and of hagiographic and critical analyses of their lives.
Fall 1998
Course Description:
This course will survey the interplay of social change processes (e.g., historical/political
events) and other factors (e.g., race, class, ethnicity, religion and gender)
in the lives of Latin American women. The course analyzes the particularities
and intersections of multiple forms of oppression and liberation, (e.g., political
circumstances, gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation) that affect
the lives of women in Latin America, and assesses the various theoretical frameworks
which have been advanced in understanding their situation.
The focus of the course will be on discovering the voices and the life experiences
of women from a variety of cultural backgrounds and Latin American countries
in order to understand the diversity and the commonality of the social histories
that have produced those voices. Particular emphasis will be placed on the influence
of socio-cultural perspectives in the construction of possible life narratives
for women. We will rely heavily on a theoretical frame provided by narrative
studies. This perspective focuses on the role narratives and life stories play
in the formation of identity, on the cultural conditions that may constrain
of facilitate the development of such narratives, and on the effect that critical
insight and engagement may have on the transformation of stories and narratives.
The individual desire and the societal possibilities both push the limits and
constrain the boundaries of the lived story. We will look at the effect societal
transformations have on the stories told, both theoretically and personally,
and on the liberatory and transformative consequences of new stories for the
development of Latin American women's lives.
Spring 1998
Course Description:
This course will survey the interplay of race, class, ethnicity and gender in
the lives of women, with particular emphasis on the experience of women of color
in the United States. The course analyzes the particularities and intersections
of multiple forms of oppression, specifically gender, race, ethnicity, class
and sexual orientation, and assesses the various theoretical frameworks which
have been advanced in understanding the oppression of women of color and women
in the "Third World." The focus of the course will be on discovering the voices
and the life experiences of women from a variety of cultural backgrounds in
order to understand the diversity and the commonality of the social histories
that have produced those voices. Particular emphasis will be placed on the influence
of socio-cultural perspectives in the construction of possible life narratives
for women. We will rely heavily on a theoretical frame provided by narrative
studies. This perspective focuses on the role narratives and life stories play
in the formation of identity, on the cultural conditions that may constrain
or facilitate the development of such narratives, and on the effect that critical
insight and engagement may have on the transformation of stories and narratives.
Stories lived and stories told are influenced by what is culturally acceptable.
Not only acceptable behavior but also acceptable accounts of behavior are regulated
by society. When societal transformations occur, the acceptable accounts are
also transformed. The individual desire and the societal possibilities both
push the limits and constrain the boundaries of the lived story. We will look
at the effect societal transformations have on the stories told, both theoretically
and personally, and on the liberatory and transformative consequences of new
stories for the development of women's identity and possible lives.
Texts:
| - Espin, O.M. (1997). Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. |
| - Hurtado, A. (1996). The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. |
| - Narayan, U. (1997). Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism. NY: Routledge. |
| - Zack, N. (Ed.).(1997). Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference, and Interplay. NY: Routledge. |
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Summer 1995
PRIVILEGE AND OPPRESSION: GENDER, ETHNICITY, RACE AND CLASS IN WOMEN'S LIVES
Course Description:
This course will survey and analyze the particularities and intersections of
multiple forms of oppression and privilege, specifically gender, race, class,
ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and their implications for theory development
in feminist psychology. The workshop will provide a conceptual frame for the
psychology of all women from the perspective of experiences of privilege and
oppression. The focus of the course will be on how privilege and oppression
have been internalized and expressed in the life experiences of women from different
backgrounds in order to understand the diversity and commonality of the social
histories that have shaped or repressed their voices.
California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego Campus
Spring 1994
CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: THE DELIVERY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
Course Description:
This course reviews the function of culture and ethnicity as psychological variables
and the impact of therapist ethnicity on the delivery of mental health services.
The focus will be on helping students relate cross-cultural psychology theory
to the delivery of psychological services. Primary source materials will be
writings by psychologists and other mental health professionals who have tried
to address cross-cultural issues in the psychodiagnosis, psychotherapy, and
community psychology literature.
Adler School of Psychology, Chicago, Illinois
Fall 1994
CULTURAL SEMINAR: THERAPY WITH BILINGUALS
Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to acquaint participants with a model to understand
the role of language in psychotherapy with fluent bilingual individuals. Implications
of the use of first or second language in therapy. The role of language in the
formation of identity will receive special attention. Effective therapeutic
and psycho-educational approaches to psychotherapeutic work with bilingual clients
will be discussed.
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