Psychology of gender

Women and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women's poverty.

Women and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women's poverty.

This Element offers an overview and review of the research on gender development in childhood from a developmental science perspective.

Records the academic paths of ground-breaking women psychologists in their own words: their triumphs, decisions, obstacles, and legacies.

This Element offers an overview and review of the research on gender development in childhood from a developmental science perspective.

Records the academic paths of ground-breaking women psychologists in their own words: their triumphs, decisions, obstacles, and legacies.

Provides an overview of scientific evidence to inform global gender equality and the intersectionality of women''s experiences.

A critical conceptual analysis of the relationship of gender and culture in psychology.

A critical conceptual analysis of the relationship of gender and culture in psychology.

The central question of this Element is: What does it mean to be transgender—in general and in specific ways?

The central question of this Element is: What does it mean to be transgender—in general and in specific ways?

Provides an overview of scientific evidence to inform global gender equality and the intersectionality of women''s experiences.

Stories of couples around the world whose everyday decisions about housework, childcare, and paid work achieve equality at home.

Stories of couples around the world whose everyday decisions about housework, childcare, and paid work achieve equality at home.

An accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer psychology.

An accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer psychology.

Originally published in 1907.

Originally published in 1907.

Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination - a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women's writing?

Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination - a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women's writing?

This text presents the foundations of correctional treatment and intervention, including overviews of the major therapeutic modalities that are effective when intervening with justice-involved individuals to reduce ongoing system involvement and improve well-being.

This text presents the foundations of correctional treatment and intervention, including overviews of the major therapeutic modalities that are effective when intervening with justice-involved individuals to reduce ongoing system involvement and improve well-being.

Adolescent Portraits introduces contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today through eighteen first-person accounts written by young adults.

Adolescent Portraits introduces contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today through eighteen first-person accounts written by young adults.

Empowering Mindfulness for Women is centred around a a 5-day intensive mindfulness course attended by eight women from different backgrounds.

Empowering Mindfulness for Women is centred around a a 5-day intensive mindfulness course attended by eight women from different backgrounds.

This book aims to be a comprehensive resource that will apprise readers of the complex dynamics of the psychological interiors of women and others in the sex and gender spectrum, as they grapple with sociopolitical and cultural constraints.

This book presents leading experts on the scientific study of gender, providing their views on what we know today about the relationship between gender nonconformity in childhood and future adult sexual identities or behaviors.

This book provides a psychoanalytic perspective on female psychology and includes articles with divergent theoretical viewpoints.

This book presents leading experts on the scientific study of gender, providing their views on what we know today about the relationship between gender nonconformity in childhood and future adult sexual identities or behaviors.

This book provides a psychoanalytic perspective on female psychology and includes articles with divergent theoretical viewpoints.

Eighteen women psychologists address issues of diversity while exploring the effects of essentialism - the presumed sameness of all women.

Eighteen women psychologists address issues of diversity while exploring the effects of essentialism - the presumed sameness of all women.

Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory presents Kate Bush as you have never seen her before.

LGBTQ Issues in Education: Advancing a Research Agenda examines the current state of the knowledge on LGBTQ issues in education and addresses future research directions.

LGBTQ Issues in Education: Advancing a Research Agenda examines the current state of the knowledge on LGBTQ issues in education and addresses future research directions.

This cutting-edge guide spotlights some of the most exciting emerging discoveries, trends, and research areas in LGBT psychology, both in science and therapy.

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender Beliefs, Stereotype Threat, and Teacher Expectations presents, for the first time, the work of leading researchers exploring the synergies and interrelationships between these fields, and provides a catalytic platform for advancing theory, practice, policy and research from an integrated perspective.

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender Beliefs, Stereotype Threat, and Teacher Expectations presents, for the first time, the work of leading researchers exploring the synergies and interrelationships between these fields, and provides a catalytic platform for advancing theory, practice, policy and research from an integrated perspective.

Winner of theBPS (British Psychological Society) Book Award in the Practitioner Category and theAmerican Psychological Associations Division 44 the Society for the Psychological Study of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Distinguished Book Award, 2025.

Injured Men is a unique casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma.

Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them.

Winner of theBPS (British Psychological Society) Book Award in the Practitioner Category and theAmerican Psychological Associations Division 44 the Society for the Psychological Study of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Distinguished Book Award, 2025.

Rough-and-tumble play provided one of the paradigmatic examples of the appli- tion of ethological methods, back in the 1970's.

Winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2026'The brilliance of her literary insight, the lucidity of her prose, and the subtlety of her analyses are simply breathtaking' Edward Said'A model of what a public intellectual should be' Slavoj ZizekFrom one of the most important contemporary thinkers, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention.

Men's Ways of Being represents a dramatic turning point in the debate on what it is to be a man, an insightful rethinking of the questions of men and masculinity.

Men's Ways of Being represents a dramatic turning point in the debate on what it is to be a man, an insightful rethinking of the questions of men and masculinity.

What does it really mean to say that boys will be boys, men are from Mars, or that contemporary men are in crisis?

What does it really mean to say that boys will be boys, men are from Mars, or that contemporary men are in crisis?

This book is an outcome of the European Conference on the theme of transsexualism held in Catania, Italy in 2006.