Women's Growth In Diversity More Writings from the Stone Center

by Jordan, Judith V.

• ISBN13: 9781572302051
• ISBN10: 1572302054
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-14
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

In a society that attaches prime importance to individual achievement, the connectedness of women's experience has traditionally been undervalued. Striving toward a more accurate representation of women's psychological development, the Stone Center at Wellesley College has become well known for its exploration of women's ways of defining themselves in relation to others. This new collection builds on the foundations laid by the widely acclaimed Women's Growth In Connection to further describe the relational perspective, devoting special attention to the diversity of women's experience. Its 15 thoughtful and clearly written chapters offer fresh insights on vital issues including sexuality, shame, anger, depression, power relations between women, and women's experiences in therapy, and make engaging reading for anyone/m-/female or male/m-/interested in increasing connectedness at a personal and societal level.

Author Biography

Judith Jordan, Ph.D., is Director of Training and Founding Scholar at the Jean Baker Miller Institute, the Stone Center, Wellesley College, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	v
Introduction	1	(8)
Judith V. Jordan
A Relational Perspective for Understanding Women's Development	9	(16)
Judith V. Jordan
Some Misconceptions and Reconceptions of a Relational Approach	25	(25)
Jean Baker Miller
Judith V. Jordan
Alexandra G. Kaplan
Irene P. Stiver
Janet L. Surrey
Clarity in Connection: Empathic Knowing, Desire, and Sexuality	50	(24)
Judith V. Jordan
Clinical Applications of the Stone Center Theoretical Approach to Minority Women	74	(17)
Clevonne W. Turner
Racial Identity Development and Relational Theory: The Case of Black Women in White Communities	91	(16)
Beverly Daniel Tatum
The Conundrum of Mutuality: A Lesbian Dialogue	107	(31)
Natalie S. Eldrige
Julie Mencher
Suzanne Slater
Relational Development: Therapeutic Implications of Empathy and Shame	138	(24)
Judith V. Jordan
Psychosocial Barriers to Black Women's Career Development	162	(14)
Clevonne W. Turner
Building Connection through Diversity	176	(23)
Cynthia Garcia Coll
Robin Cook-Nobles
Janet L. Surrey
Revisioning Women's Anger: The Personal and the Global	199	(18)
Jean Baker Miller
Janet L. Surrey
From Depression to Sadness in Women's Psychotherapy	217	(22)
Irene P. Stiver
Jean Baker Miller
The Integration of Sexuality: Lesbians and Their Mothers	239	(21)
Wendy B. Rosen
The Woman-Man Relationship: Impasses and Possibilities	260	(28)
Stephen J. Bergman
Janet L. Surrey
A Relational Approach to Therapeutic Impasses	288	(23)
Irene P. Stiver
Intimacy in Lesbian Relationships: A Critical Reexamination of Fusion	311	(20)
Julie Mencher
Index	331