Human Rights and Mental Health Among Latin American Women in Situations of State-Sponsored Violence: Bibliographic Resources

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 525-544

  Lykes, M Brinton ^a   Brabeck, Mary M ^a   Ferns, Theresa ^a   Radan, Angela ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; CRITIQUE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS--WOMEN; INCEST; INTEREST GROUPS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH--WOMEN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POLITICAL FACTORS; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGISTS; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC OPINION; RAPE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WAR; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WOMEN'S GROUPS;

AMERICAS; CRIME; CRITIQUE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH; HUMAN RIGHTS--WOMEN; INCEST; INTEREST GROUPS; LATIN AMERICA; LITERATURE REVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH--WOMEN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POLITICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGISTS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; RAPE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOMEN'S GROUPS;

AMERICAS; CRIME; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEALTH; HUMAN RIGHTS; INCEST; LATIN AMERICA; MENTAL HEALTH; NORTH AMERICA; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; PUBLIC OPINION; RAPE; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOMEN;

EID: 0027902035     PISSN: 03616843     EISSN: 14716402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1993.tb00660.x     Document Type: Article

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1. Although the majority of these resources are in English, some literature in Spanish has been accumulated. The following resources are being collected: (a) published and unpublished articles; (b) books; (c) conventions, treaties, and declarations on the rights of women; (d) curriculum resources; (e) bibliographies; (f) media and nonprint materials; (g) lists of feminist organizations. The Task Force is collecting resources on the following topics relevant to human rights and mental health of Latin American women in conditions of state-sponsored violence: refugee women, widows, women and children in conditions of war, women internally displaced, women and torture, sexual abuse of women in conditions of war, nontraditional and culturally appropriate models of therapy, understanding posttraumatic stress disorder in cultural and political contexts, the relationship between state-sponsored violence and domestic violence, and feminist theory of women and state-sponsored violence. For more information or to add information and additional resources, please contact Mary Brabeck, School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167.
2. One of the authors of this paper is a Central American and two others have worked in Central America for many years. By using the word reading, we hope to convey a sense of our close attention to the ways in which the materials discussed here are texts of Latin American women's lives. These texts complement our more situated experiences in the region. Reading is an active, interpretive process facilitated by our personal experiences but constrained by our positions in the North and, for three of us, as United Statesians.
3. Several of the authors have collaborated in the establishment of an international Network in Communication and Scientific Documentation in Human Rights and Mental Health. The Network was developed at the initiative of psychologists in the Southern Cone to facilitate communication and dissemination of information on (a) the psychological effects of repression, (b) treatment and prevention strategies developed under conditions of state-sponsored violence, and (c) the broader social and political realities within which concerns of health and human rights are being addressed. To meet these objectives, member groups of the Network have begun to organize published and unpublished work in these areas into a human rights and mental health data base for access by computer in each region of the Network. Four qualitative bibliographies on selected themes addressed by the Network are available in Spanish from M.B.L.
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