Psychology of gender

In the award-winning Just Sex?

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.

This much-needed book provides an in-depth, nonjudgmental look at how consumption of Internet pornography and sexually explicit Internet material (SEIM) impacts the social, physical, emotional, and sexual development of adolescents.

Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award!

This book explores LGBQTNB people''s relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

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

The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly high profile and politically active asexual community, united around a common identity as 'people who do not experience sexual attraction'.

This groundbreaking book argues that the fundamental issues around how victim-survivors of digital gender-sexual violations (DGSVs) are abused can be understood in terms of gender and sexual dynamics, constructions, positioning and logics.

This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical  perspective.

Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and maleBeing human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap than we may realize.

This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn.

Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies.

This comprehensive text explores the relationship between identity, subjectivity and digital communication, providing a strong starting point for understanding how fast-changing communication technologies, platforms, applications and practices have an impact on how we perceive ourselves, others, relationships and bodies.

Exploring clinical examples of the lived experiences of trans people across the lifespan, this unique and authoritative book addresses topics such as attending school, puberty, employment issues, suicide, bullying, autism and intersecting identities.

The use of social sterotypes as a basis for judgments and behavioral decisions has been a major focus of social psychological theory and research since the field began.

Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences.

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

The fitness boom of the last two decades has led to many people incorporating exercise into their lifestyles through activities such as jogging and aerobics.

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

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

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

This book explores the precarious nature of life, and the ways in which power, binary ways of thinking and Othering create personal, social and political difficulties.

This expansive survey spotlights pervasive issues affecting girls' and women's sexual and reproductive health across the lifecourse.

Originally published in 1989.

Sexuality in Adolescence: The Digital Generation provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research and theory about adolescent sexuality in today's world.

This timely volume examines the ways in which queer and trans theory are supported by recent findings from psychological science.

In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill.

This essential and timely text looks at the ways in which various identities are socially constructed by students, exploring and comparing multiple dimensions of diverse identities, and the various ways students try to fit in when faced with prejudice and discrimination.

This cutting-edge and comprehensive fourth edition of Women's Lives: A Psychological Perspective integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality, sexual orientation, and ableness.

The fourth edition of Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities critically examines the breadth of research on this complex and controversial topic, with the principal aim of helping the reader to understand where sex differences are found - and where they are not.

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

This volume elucidates some of the very concrete ways in which Americans misperceive the social world and how we are all subject to biases and illusions.

The schizoanalytic method and the lines of flight that it has inspired align with contemporary feminist concerns and practices in productive and revealing ways in this ground-breaking collection.

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 text explores scholarship, practice, and advocacy for Black women's pursuit of bodily autonomy, sexual freedom, and pleasure.

There is a significant increase in people who self-diagnose as having gender dysphoria and gender incongruence.

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development.

In the award-winning Just Sex?

The authors first demonstrate that most of the claims about sex and gender are not well supported by research, and then provide readers with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth of research to come to realistic, constructive conclusions.

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.

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

Drawing upon international expertise, and including some of the most well-known academics and practitioners in the field, The Routledge International Handbook of Human Aggression is the first reference work to fully capture how our understanding of aggression has been refined and reconceptualised in recent years.

The psychiatric view of homosexuality has undergone a fascinating evo- lution in recent years.

Fully revised and updated, Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, and gender studies.

The Maternal Experience explores the powerful and dynamic nature of maternal ambivalence and disrupts the conventional narrative of the mother's lived experience by arguing that encounters with feelings of hatred are both universal and have the capacity to stimulate and enrich her maternal love.

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

The Female Body in Mind introduces new ways of thinking about issues of women's mental health assessment and treatment.

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

Sex-Selfies als Social-Media-Trend, frauenfeindliche Rap- und Partysongs zum Mitgrölen, Sexshops in Innenstädten mit Masturbationsgerätschaften in der Auslage, Sexting und DickPics-Versendung per Smartphone, digitale Darstellungen von sexualisierter Gewalt und Missbrauch von Kindern, Cybermobbing und -grooming, Herabwürdigung und sexuelle Ausbeutung per Dating-Apps und Unmengen von kinderleicht zugänglichen Pornoangeboten im Internet … Alles Anzeichen für eine bedenkliche Hypersexualisierung und Pornographisierung unserer Gesellschaft?