The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women: Psychoanalytic and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

305 Pages·2017·7.24 MB·English

by  Paula L. Ellman

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CHAPTERTITLE I
THE COURAGE TO FIGHT
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
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Psychoanalysis & Women Series
Series Editor: Frances Thomson-Salo
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THE COURAGE TO
FIGHT VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN
Psychoanalytic and
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
edited by
Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman
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First published in 2017 by
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CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xvii
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD xxvii
Frances Thomson-Salo
PREFACE xxix
Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp
OPENING WORDS BY THE SPONSORS xxxi
OF THE CONFERENCE “THE COURAGE TO FIGHT
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN”
Alexandra Billinghurst, Jack Rasmussen, Peter Starr, and
Cecile Bassen
INTRODUCTION xxxvii
The courage to fight violence against women
Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman
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vi CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Unconscious fantasy and the courage to fight 1
violence against women
Paula L. Ellman
CHAPTER TWO
Witnessing and resilience: commentary on being involved 9
in “The courage to fight violence against women”
Nancy R. Goodman
CHAPTER THREE
Human sex trafficking: extreme violence against women 17
and children
Vivian B. Pender
CHAPTER FOUR
How art imitates life 29
Diana Romero
CHAPTER FIVE
Sex trafficking: commentary on Chapters Three and Four 41
Margarita Cereijido
CHAPTER SIX
Girls at risk: paths to safety, interventions with female 47
adolescents at sexual risk in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Raquel Berman
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sew to speak: story cloth healing with survivors 63
of sexual violence
Rachel A. Cohen and Ana Maria Ramirez
CHAPTER EIGHT
Commentary on “Girls at risk” and “Sew to speak” 83
Carla Neely
CHAPTER NINE
Violation: a poem 87
Myra Sklarewwith Introduction by Nancy R. Goodman
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CHAPTER TEN
Anatomy of a man’s assault on a woman 91
Donald Campbell
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Commentary on Donald Campbell’s “Anatomy of a 99
man’s assault on a woman”
Justine Kalas Reeves
CHAPTER TWELVE
End Rape on Campus (EROC) and the making 103
of The Hunting Ground
Annie Clark
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Sexual abuse of women in United States prisons: 107
a modern corollary of slavery
Brenda V. Smith, with Introduction by Paula L. Ellman
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Commentary on “End Rape on Campus (EROC)” and 129
“Sexual abuse of women in United States prisons”
Joy Kassett
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Combatting femicide in Mexico: achievements and 133
ongoing challenges
Maureen Meyer
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Justice matters: scaling up the response to sexual 149
violence in areas of conflict and unrest
Hope Ferdowsian
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Women seeking asylum due to gender-based violence 161
Katalin Roth
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Violence against women worldwide: a commentary 167
on Chapters Fifteen to Seventeen
Louis W. Goodman
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CHAPTER NINETEEN
Poems on violence against women 171
E. Ethelbert Miller, Poet Laureate
with Introduction by Louis W. Goodman
CHAPTER TWENTY
Violence against women in the work of women artists 177
Janice S. Lieberman
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Woman: power and representation in pre-Columbian 189
societies in the Andean region
Moisés Lemlij
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Maternal imago and bodily symptoms 209
Rosine Jozef Perelberg
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Discussion of Lemlij and Perelberg: 227
women of power
Arlene Kramer Richards
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Introduction to Traces in the Wind 231
Robin Dean
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
A staged reading for remembrance, reminder, and 233
inspiration: Traces in the Wind
Gail Humphries Mardirosian
INDEX 252
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LIST OF FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER SEVEN
7.1 Esther Weisenthal Krinitz: “The Nazis beat up my father.”
7.2 Amazwi Abesifazane (Voices of Women) project in South
Africa—experiences under apartheid.
Courtesy of Coral Bijoux, Voices of Women, South Africa.
7.3 Sewing circle.
Courtesy of Pilar Pena, ACNUR.
7.4 “This is a moment I will never forget.” Maria depicts the
day her village was attacked and her life destroyed.
Courtesy of Pilar Pena, ACNUR.
7.5 “This is what I cannot say.” Pilar forced to flee for her life
and no chance to say goodbye to her father.
Courtesy of Pilar Pena, ACNUR.
7.6 “This is what I need you to know.” Rosa sewed the scene
of her children being shot at on the river in front of their
home, her husband holding a bottle of alcohol in his hand.
Courtesy of Pilar Pena, ACNUR.
7.7 “This is what the cloth is trying to say.” Blanca’s daughter
is being raped and murdered by soldiers.
Courtesy of Pilar Pena, ACNUR.
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