Oliva Espín
 

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(2015). A geography of memory-A psychology of place. In O.M. Espín & A.L. Dottolo (Eds.). Gendered journeys: Women, migration and feminist psychology (pp. 29-51). UK: Palgrave Macmillan

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(2014). Saints in the Cuban heat. In E. Facio & I. Lara (Eds.). Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina and Indigenous Women's Lives (pp. 102-112). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

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(2013). "Making Love in English" Language in Psychotherapy with Immigrant Women. Women and Therapy (Special issue on therapy with immigrant women).

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(2012). The interplay of criollo identity, colonial politics, and gender in the enduring popular appeal of Rose of Lima. In P. Golinelli (Ed.) Agiografia e culture popolari /Hagiography and popular culture (pp.355-366). Universita degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy.

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La Iglesia de Jesus de Miramar.
The facade of the Havana Cathedral.
 

(2011). Female Saints: Submissive or Rebellious? Feminists in Disguise? In D. Eibl, M. Jarosch, U. A. Schneider, & A. Steinsiek. (Eds.) Innsbrucker Gender Lectures I (pp.135-164.) Innsbruck, Austria: Innsbruck University Press.

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(2010, June). Is Domestic violence a cultural tradition?...and other questions about gender and migration. U.S. Embassy and Women without Borders, Vienna, Austria.

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(2008). “The destiny of this people is my own”: Edith Stein’s paradoxical sainthood. Cross Currents, 58 (1), 117-148. Spring. (Journal of the Association for Religion in Intellectual Life).

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(2007, March). Memory, identity, and the feminist self. Association for Women in Psychology. San Francisco, California.

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(2006, August). Psychotherapy and Social Justice. Rosallee Weiss Award Address. American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

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A street corner in Old Havana.
Stained glass ceiling in a museum.
The upstairs house where I grew up as a little girl.
 

(2006, March). A feminist look at the kaleidoscope of identity. Association for Women in Psychology, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Keynote address).

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(2006). Gender, sexuality, language, and migration. In R. Mahalingam (Ed.). Cultural psychology of immigrants (pp. 241-258). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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(1994). Traumatic socio-historical conditions and adolescent development: Letters from V. In C.E. Franz & Stewart, A.J. (Eds.) Women creating lives: Identities, resilience, and resistance (pp.187-198). Boulder, Co: Westview Press. (Also in: Espín, O.M. (1997). Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.)

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(1991). Roots uprooted: Autobiographical reflections on the psychological experience of migration. In F. Alegria & J. Ruffinelli (Eds.) Paradise lost or gained: The literature of Hispanic exile (pp. 151-163). Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press. Another version of this paper entitled “Roots uprooted: The psychological impact of historical/political dislocation” appeared in E. Cole, O.M. Espín & E.D. Rothblum (Eds.).

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(1988). Spiritual power and the mundane world: Hispanic female healers in urban U.S. communities. Women Studies Quarterly, 16(3-4), 33-47. (Also in: Espín, O.M. (1997). Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.)

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(1987). Psychological impact of migration on Latinas: Implications for psychotherapeutic practice. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 11(4), 489-503. (Also in: Espín, O.M. (1997). Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.)

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