Transnational Psychology of Women

This book presents groundbreaking scholarship on new approaches to women's psychology.

Transnational psychology pushes beyond traditional Western, androcentric frameworks to provide theorists, researchers, and practitioners with tools to identify and deconstruct hegemonies, give voice to the marginalized, and critically examine the dynamic nature of identity in local and global contexts.

Distinguished authors represent a diverse array of viewpoints originating in postcolonial, postmodern, Third World and Women of Color feminist scholarship, intersectionality and critical race theory.

Chapters explain how transnational perspectives can address a range of topics including human trafficking, sexuality, migration, human rights, healing, empowerment, domestic violence, education, and work.

The book concludes with chapters on teaching these approaches, and a roadmap for the future of this growing field of study.

Contributors

Series Foreword
Mary Wyer

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Lynn H. Collins, Sayaka Machizawa, and Joy K. Rice

1. Transnational Psychology of Women
   Lynn H. Collins, Sayaka Machizawa, and Joy K. Rice
2. The Transnational Turn: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
   Janet M. Conway
3. Strategies and Considerations for Transnational Feminist Research: Reflections From Research in Uganda
   Jennifer J. Mootz and Sally D. Stabb
4. Transnational Psychological Perspectives on Assessment and Intervention
   Lynn H. Collins
5. A Transnational Feminist Perspective on the Psychology of Migration
   Oliva M. Espín and Andrea L. Dottolo
6. Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women's Education, Work, and Leadership
   Edwina Pio
7. Using Transnational Feminist Theory to Expand Domestic Violence Understandings
   Alisha Guthery, Nicole Jeffrey, Sara Crann, and Elizabeth Schwab
8. Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology of Women's Reproductive Experiences
   Jeanne Marecek
9. Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Human Trafficking: Centering Structures, Institutions, and Subjects
   Julietta Hua and Jessica Tjiu
10. Transnational Psychology in the Classroom: A Pluralistic Approach
    Lynn H. Collins, Jennifer J. Mootz, Jeanne Marecek, Alisha Guthery, Sayaka Machizawa, Oliva M. Espín, Andrea L. Dottolo, Julietta Hua, Sara Crann, Nicole Jeffrey, and Elizabeth Schwab
11. Toward an Inclusive, Affirmative Transnational Psychology
    Joy K. Rice and Shelly Grabe

Glossary

Index

About the Editors

Lynn H. Collins, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Collins is a Fellow of APA and a recipient of the Association for Women in Psychology's Christine Ladd-Franklin Award. She has served as president of APA Division 52 (International Psychology) and APA Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women).

Dr. Collins oversaw the creation of the Division 52 journal, International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, and has served on the editorial boards of Psychological Assessment; Psychology of Women Quarterly; Sex Roles; Journal of Genetic Psychology; and Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs.

Sayaka Machizawa, PsyD, is senior clinical scientist at Bracket Global. Born in Tokyo, Japan, and trained in the United States, she is fully bilingual and uses her transmigrant background to ensure the development of culturally appropriate clinical content for rater training and qualification programs in global clinical trials by major pharmaceutical companies.

Until 2016, Dr. Machizawa worked at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology as associate director of community partnerships and international faculty lead, where she designed and taught study abroad courses in Japan and oversaw service learning and community-based participatory research projects.

She has served numerous leadership roles in APA.

Joy K. Rice, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, emerita professor, and clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

She is a recipient of the Educational Press Association Distinguished Achievement Award, the Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award for outstanding international contributions to the psychology of women and gender, and the 2008 Woman of the Year Award from the APA Section for the Advancement of Women in Counseling Psychology.

Dr. Rice is coauthor of Living Through Divorce: A Developmental Approach to Divorce Therapy; coeditor of Women and Leadership: Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices; and coeditor of Psychological Practice With Women: Guidelines, Diversity, Empowerment.

The complex conceptualization of transnational feminist psychology, as posited in this volume, advocates for a paradigm shift in the ways psychology approaches the intersectional and international psychology of women. Emerging from multiple disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and women’s studies, transnational feminist psychology makes visible the voices and experiences of the 'Global Majority,' roughly 85 percent of the world’s non-Western population.
—Choice

As this volume demonstrates, the global–local telescope of transnational feminism liberates scholars, practitioners, and researchers from White and White American middle-class feminism and enables us to view the diversity of women in their diaspora, cross-borders, and intersectional contexts.
—Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky, EdD
Professor Emerita, Antioch University New England, Keene, NH