Psychology of gender

Sex Therapy: The Basics offers an introduction to modern sex therapy and is essential reading for anyone working professionally with sexual issues or just interested in sex.

This cross-disciplinary volume examines and reframes trauma as a social and political issue in the context of wider society, critiquing the widely accepted pathologizing of trauma and violence in current discourse.

Anne Walker shows that women are neither the victims of raging hormonal fluctuations nor entirely unaffected by them.

This award-winning book provides an analysis of the genetic/evolutionary, cultural/historical, and developmental aspects of prejudice and discrimination.

This unprecedented, interdisciplinary collection focuses on gender, whiteness, and white privilege, and sheds light on this understudied subject matter in the context of clinical psychology, in both theories and applications.

Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity.

This book explores the histories and presents of gender dysphoria and euphoria as clinical and theoretical concepts as well as lived experience.

An educational and inspirational book that offers practical guidance for art therapists working with transgender and gender-expansive youth and their families.

For decades, the field of gender, sex, and sexualities has been a focal point of increasing interest.

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades.

Anne Walker shows that women are neither the victims of raging hormonal fluctuations nor entirely unaffected by them.

This is the second issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry devoted to mothers and daughters.

'A gay man could read this book as if his life depended on it - and perhaps it does' Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance'Poignant and achingly beautiful' The New York Times Even in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man.

This innovative book aims to further our understanding of violence in intimate relationships between men and women by combining research from psychology, cultural studies, and biology.

Dual-career marriage, in which wife and husband each pursue a professional career, offers a window into the changing landscape of gender roles and relations.

Romantic relationship formation and the engagement in sexual behaviors are normative and salient developmental tasks for adolescents and young adults.

This edited volume establishes a state-of-the-art perspective on theory and research on gender, power, and communication in human relationships.

What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience?

Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing.

Pregnancy loss can leave us with many unanswered questions, and knowing where to find answers is not always clear.

This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders.

Same-sex attracted, and non-gender conforming African-Americans are substantial in number, yet underrepresented in the social and behavioral science literature.

Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication offers a thorough exploration of sex differences in how men and women communicate, set within the context of sex similarities, offering a balanced examination of the topic.

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

Pregnancy loss can leave us with many unanswered questions, and knowing where to find answers is not always clear.

Most North American colleges have programs that help students understand the harm done to victims of sexual violence and, if prosecuted, the potential consequences of their perpetrators.

This book provides a major assessment of the effectiveness of the concept of gender.

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

Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment brings together two interrelated realms: psychological assessment with gender and sexuality.

This comprehensive handbook on evolution and sexual psychology features an interdisciplinary team of leading researchers in the field.

This handbook offers a unique critical and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of Community Psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing people across the world.

First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory - now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation.

This timely manifesto calls for a future free from gender-based assumptions about human potential.

"e;Of all the things in the world to worry about, why would anyone put the right for women to be rude at the top of the list?

'The Essential Difference' shows that, on average, male and female minds are of a slightly different character.

'A treatise on empathy and grace in extraordinary circumstances' Jojo MoyesWhat does it mean to be a woman?

'An important and compelling analysis of a phenomenon that's everywhere' Cordelia Fine, Big Issue'Offers a sharply cut prism through which to view our everyday experience' Afua Hirsch, The TLSA powerful, lucid analysis of the logic of misogyny from a remarkable feminist thinker, Down Girl is essential reading for the #MeToo era.

';For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.

'The book to recommend to patients when they face coming to terms with unavoidable childlessness.

'Grayson Perry for King and Queen of England' Caitlin MoranGrayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy.

Neil collects bricks, Kevin is a roundabout enthusiast, John runs the Apostrophe Protection Society and Keith s actual job is watching paint dry.

The killing took place outside a busy coffee bar in Naples in broad daylight.

FREUD ON GIRLS: 'They go through an early age in which they envy their brothers their signs of masculinity and feel at a disadvantage and humiliated because of the lack of it.

Wo ist der Schlüssel zum Verstand, wenn ein Mann einen Kopf kürzer gemacht oder ein kleiner Hund zweigeteilt werden soll?

Dieses Praxishandbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die wichtigsten Ansätze und Methoden der modernen Psychotherapie.

Ésta es una historia personal.

From one of the most important contemporary thinkers we have, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention.

Australian writer and lecturer Steve Biddulph presents his bestselling parenting guides Raising Boys and Raising Girls, available for the first time in a single eBook-only volume.

A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field from Australian writer and lecturer Steve Biddulph, who's been called 'a mixture of Billy Connelly and Dr Spock' by The Times.

They told you you need to be thin and beautiful.