Psychology of gender

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

Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis.

Counseling Gay Men, Adolescents, & Boys: A Strengths-Based Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators provides practitioners and educators with critical information needed to help navigate the therapeutic and educational terrain of working with gay males.

This multidisciplinary volume offers an essential, comprehensive study of perspectives on the scope and application of the best interests of the child and focuses mainly on its application in relation to child custody.

In the award-winning Just Sex?

In this special issue, top researchers from a diversity of disciplines provide an overview of and insights into the major social, cultural, and structural variables that play a role in Black women's poor health, and differential morbidity and mortality.

What can psychology teach us about sex?

This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women.

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.

This collection of essays explores consolation and mourning in the varied, sometimes provocative, readings of Boethius and of Stoic consolation by French, English, Italian and German authors, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machaut, Chaucer, Wyatt and Queen Elizabeth I.

This book analyzes how the increasing number of same-sex couples is changing the traditional concepts of family and parenthood, and how these changes affect the psychological studies of family, couple relationships and human development.

This book offers a critical discussion of Sally Haslanger's philosophical oeuvre.

This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male.

Originally published in 1977.

This fully updated and revised eighth edition examines the behavioral, biological, and social context in which people express gendered behaviors, utilizing the latest research to help students think critically about research findings and stereotypes and provoking them to examine and revise their own preconceptions.

This ground-breaking book presents multifaceted perspectives to examine assumptions about gender, intersecting identities, and power that impact women's experience as group psychotherapy leaders, mentors, and educators.

This book examines some of the ways in which sexuality has been described and interpreted in the West.

Learn the latest practicaland bisexually affirmativeapproaches to helping bisexual clientsClinical work with bisexual clients has conceptually shifted beyond the exclusive emphasis on either straight or lesbian and gay issues.

This book introduces mental health professionals and students to gender issues involved in professional practice, research, and teaching.

The Handbook of Sex Differences is a four-volume reference work assembled and written to assess sex differences in human traits (although findings regarding other species are also included).

BDSM and Kink: The Basics provides an essential overview of knowledge that every clinician should have about alternative sexualities.

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.

A book of "e;real world"e; cases, this text introduces "e;flashpoint"e; issues related to gender equity in the schools.

Bettina Böhm befasst sich mit Einstellungen zu sexuellem Kindesmissbrauch in Ghana und deren Implikationen für Prävention und Intervention.

The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology takes an intersectional feminist approach to the exploration of psychology and gender through a lens of power.

For some time sex has been defined as the biological difference between men and women, and gender as the manner in which culture defines and constrains these differences.

In an advanced society like the U.

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

This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.

Combining theory, research, and case studies, this book shows clinicians how to apply transdiagnostic contextual behavioral approaches when working with sexual and gender minority (SGM) clients.

Surviving Domestic Abuse examines how formal and informal supports and services can mitigate the damaging, and sometimes fatal, social cost of domestic violence.

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

What influences political behavior more -- one's gender or one's gendered personality traits?

At a time when traditional dating practices are being replaced with new ways to meet potential partners, this book provides fresh insights into how are men responding to new ways of dating.

This light-hearted and entertaining book, authored by top psychologist David Cohen, explores the influences and impacts on our perception of body image, examining the power of appearance and the psychology behind how we think and feel about ourselves physically.

This book reveals that the way we perceive sex robots is how we perceive ourselves, overcoming the false human/non-human binary.

Women are particularly vulnerable to depression.

The Phenomenology of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood provides an ethical, social, and psychological investigation of the process of becoming a mother.

This book is an essential resource for those new to, developing and established in the field of trans voice.

There are few things that stir up our culture more than sex, particularly sex and children.

Is prostitution immoral?

A comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based review of women''s mental health, written by leading experts, for mental health clinicians.

We live in a society in which messages associating physical attractiveness with success and happiness are pervasive.

Originally published in 1993.

The Oxford Handbook of Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of research on the mental health of sexual minorities-defined as those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or same-gender attracted; as well as the mental health of gender minorities-defined as individuals who do not fully identify with their sex assigned at birth, including people who are transgender or gender non-binary.

»In diesem Buch spreche ich über einen Körper, der zugleich sinnlich und in ständigem Austausch begriffen ist zwischen Affekt und Repräsentanz, zwischen Primärvorgang mit seinen verschiedenen Schichten von Unbewusstheit und den Organisationen, die den Sekundärvorgang bestimmen.

Adolescent girls' wellbeing is under threat.

Understanding and Treating Incels is an indispensable guide for mental health clinical staff, social workers, prevention specialists, educators, and threat assessment professionals who want to better understand the involuntary celibate movement, assess individuals' potential for violence, and offer treatment approaches and prevention efforts.

The Handbook of Sex Differences is a four-volume reference work assembled and written to assess sex differences in human traits (although findings regarding other species are also included).