Psychology of gender

What articulations between bodies, genders and desires are required socio-culturally for recognition of what is human?

Body image is a significant issue for the majority of adolescents.

This book draws on a unique theoretical framework informed by clinical case studies, Fanonian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and decolonial feminism, to examine the concept of adornment in African cultures.

When Anna Bianchi's grandchild asked, "e;Nanny, you do know I'm a girl, don't you?

Advertising, Gender and Society explores contemporary social-psychological theory and original research that examines the portrayal of gender in advertising.

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.

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

Uses evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory to explain the mysteries of the human mind to an alien scientist.

A Critical Reflexive Approach to Sex Research is a methodologically focused book that offers rich insights into the, often secret, subjectivities of men who pay for sex in South Africa.

This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality.

As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence.

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

What makes girls avoid math, science, and technology in school?

Using facet theory and Hackett's pioneering development of the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) as a qualitative methodology, this volume explains the process of formulating and applying the DMS to critically assess female representation in science fiction.

This book explores the growing understanding and evidence base for the role of trauma in sexual offending.

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.

The odd reader (here in England "e;odd"e; means occasional) may be interested in how a book comes about.

Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography.

Despite continuing ageist beliefs that sexuality is a privilege designed only for the young and physically healthy, research continues to indicate that the majority of older adults maintain interest in sexuality and may engage in fulfilling sexual behavior well into their last decade of life.

Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one theoretical vantage point or another.

This book will help practitioners overcome one of the leading challenges in couples therapy: working effectively with the male partner.

This book explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ parented families in school communities and provides a voice for this overlooked group who are becoming an increasingly common form of family diversity in school communities.

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

Uses evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory to explain the mysteries of the human mind to an alien scientist.

Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance takes a welcome look at women's experiences of living well after depression.

The objective of this book is to propose a theory of transvestism and secondary transsexualism, and to provide information concerning these behaviors.

Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as 'evil'.

Originally published in 1993.

This book explores the nature of intimacy by revealing how the influence of individual, interpersonal and wider social factors create variations in self-disclosure, intimacy games and relationship habits.

In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life.

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

A critical perspective on the treatment of incarcerated women-and their childrenInside and Out: Women, Prison, and Therapy challenges conventional thinking about the therapeutic issues facing female prisoners and their children.

Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Suzanne Romaine's main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture.

Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge.

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

"e;I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles.

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

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

Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!

 This book presents original research of violence against women in both achieved and failed states (i.

Treating Trauma in Trans People brings together key concepts from both gender-affirming treatment and trauma-focused care, with interventions focused on resolving physiological, intrapsychic, and interpersonal disruptions.

This autotheoretical Element argues that movement between ''woman'' and ''non-binary'' is possible, affectively, politically, and strategically.

As intimate lives become more public, and discussions of gender and sexuality more complex, there is a need to rethink how we engage with our own perceptions and identifications with respect to intimacy.

This text offers a unique developmental focus on gender.

In one of the first psychological studies of women in heterosexual relationships, Caroline Dryden examines the social context of their experiences and emotional struggles.

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.

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between explores how adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are learning what it means to be a woman and their identities are in-between that of child and adult, girl and woman.