Full Description
In recent years there has been a surge in awareness of the many arenas in which violence against women occurs. There is a growing attention to human and sex trafficking and femicide throughout the world. Female genital mutilation along with childhood marriage and rape occur regularly in many societies. Sexual victimization of women in custody is now exposed. College campus violence against women has been a serious problem and only recently acknowledged.In this edited book psychoanalysts show how violence can be seen, known and represented on the world stage and in psychoanalytic treatment. The editors bring psychoanalytic ideas and understanding in an effort to comprehend violence against women. Observing the active witnessing of the contributors to this book elucidates the way trauma is transformed into resilience and healing. Scholars and psychoanalysts from Argentina, Mexico, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States together address this serious problem along with the consideration of depictions of violence against women in film, art, drama and poetry. With courage, multiple modalities of intervention become possible. Additionally, psychoanalysts develop psychoanalytic commentary of the presentations, bringing the psychoanalytic mind to the larger arena of the many courageous efforts at fighting violence against women.
Contents
Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Opening words by the sponsors of the conference "The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women" -- Introduction -- Unconscious fantasy and the courage to fight violence against women -- Witnessing and resilience: commentary on being involved in "The courage to fight violence against women" -- Human sex trafficking: extreme violence against women and children -- How art imitates life -- Sex trafficking: commentary on Chapters Three and Four -- Girls at risk: paths to safety, interventions with female adolescents at sexual risk in Quintana Roo, Mexico -- Sew to speak: story cloth healing with survivors of sexual violence -- Commentary on "Girls at risk" and "Sew to speak" -- Violation: a poem -- Anatomy of a man's assault on a woman -- Commentary on Donald Campbell's "Anatomy of a man's assault on a woman" -- End Rape On Campus (EROC) and the making of The Hunting Ground -- Sexual abuse of women in United States prisons: a modern corollary of slavery -- Commentary on "End Rape on Campus (EROC)" and "Sexual abuse of women in United States prisons" -- Combatting femicide in Mexico: achievements and ongoing challenges -- Justice matters: scaling up the response to sexual violence in areas of conflict and unrest -- Women seeking asylum due to gender-based violence -- Violence against women worldwide: a commentary on Chapters Fifteen to Seventeen -- Poems on violence against women -- Violence against women in the work of women artists -- Woman: power and representation in pre-Columbian societies in the Andean region -- Maternal imago and bodily symptoms -- Discussion of Lemlij and Perelberg: women of power -- Introduction to Traces in the Wind -- A staged reading for remembrance, reminder, and inspiration:
