Black Women and Wellness

IF 1.1 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Women & Therapy Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/02703149.2022.2125620

P. Collins

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract This essay engages one fundamental question: How might Black women rethink the meaning of wellness within a society that is itself unwell? Black women’s empowerment requires cultivating self-defined knowledge that both criticizes the existing social order that makes Black women unwell and reconceptualizes wellness within these social relations. To develop this thesis, I explore how the construct of controlling images aids in rethinking Black women’s health, healing, and wellness. I argue that the specific controlling images applied to Black women as mammies, matriarchs, bad mothers, and jezebels constitute social scripts that justify and reproduce Black women’s subordination. Uncritically accepting these controlling images fosters illness. But rejecting these social scripts and imagining new ways of being Black women constitutes an essential aspect of rethinking Black women’s wellness.

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黑人妇女与健康

摘要本文涉及一个基本问题：在一个自身不适的社会中，黑人女性如何重新思考健康的意义？黑人女性的赋权需要培养自我定义的知识，既批评使黑人女性身体不适的现有社会秩序，又重新定义这些社会关系中的健康。为了发展这篇论文，我探索了控制图像的构建如何有助于重新思考黑人女性的健康、治愈和身心健康。我认为，适用于黑人女性的特定控制形象，如奶妈、母系、坏妈妈和犹太人，构成了证明和再现黑人女性从属地位的社会脚本。不加批判地接受这些控制性的形象会滋生疾病。但拒绝这些社会脚本，想象黑人女性的新方式，是重新思考黑人女性健康的一个重要方面。

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来源期刊

Women & Therapy Multiple-

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

4.80%

发文量

期刊介绍： Women & Therapy is the only professional journal that focuses entirely on the complex interrelationship between women and the therapeutic experience. Devoted to descriptive, theoretical, clinical, and empirical perspectives on the topic of women and therapy, the journal is intended for feminist practitioners as well as for individuals interested in the practice of feminist therapy. The journal focuses on a wide range of content areas, including: •issues in the process of therapy with female clients •problems in living that affect women in greater proportion than men, such as depression, eating disorders, and agoraphobia •women"s traditional and nontraditional roles in society and how these affect and can be affected by therapy.