Women and Psychology
About the Book Series
This series brings together current theory, research and practice on women and psychology. Drawing on scholarship from a number of different areas of psychology, it bridges the gap between abstract research and the reality of women's lives by integrating theory and practice, research and policy.
Each book addresses a 'cutting edge' issue, covering topics such as postnatal depression, abortion, pregnancy, sexual violence, mothering, madness or eating disorders. Authors draw on a wide range of theories and approaches – including post-structuralism, social constructionism, psychoanalysis, social cognition, development psychology, and intersectionality. Some books include research data, primarily of a qualitative nature, others focus on theory or practice.
The series provides accessible and concise accounts of key issues in the study of women and psychology, and clearly demonstrates the centrality of psychology debates within women's studies or feminism.
If you are interested in contributing a book to the series, contact the series editor for information about the process of submitting a proposal: [email protected]
The Psychological Development of Girls and Women: Rethinking change in time
2nd Edition
By Sheila Greene
December 04, 2014
Choice Recommended Read This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women and the central role of time in shaping human experience. Greene critically reviews traditional and contemporary theoretical ...
Knowing Victims: Feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times
1st Edition
By Rebecca Stringer
June 09, 2014
Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood in contemporary feminism and politics. It focuses on popular and scholarly constructions of feminism as ‘victim feminism’ – an ideology of passive victimhood that denies women’s agency – and provides the first comprehensive analysis of the debate ...
Women Voicing Resistance: Discursive and narrative explorations
1st Edition
Edited
By Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr, Michelle N. Lafrance
March 17, 2014
Feminist scholars have demonstrated how ‘dominant discourses’ and ‘master narratives’ frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and depoliticizing women’s storying of their own lives. In this groundbreaking volume a number of internationally recognized researchers, working across...
Fat Lives: A Feminist Psychological Exploration
1st Edition
By Irmgard Tischner
December 14, 2012
Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out the content of a ‘fat’ person’s supermarket trolley? Ever wondered what lies behind this behaviour, or what it might be like to be at the receiving end of this judging gaze? Within the context of the current ‘obesity debate’, this book ...
The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience
1st Edition
By Jane M. Ussher, Jane Ussher
April 27, 2011
Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men?If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand...
'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing a Threat of Degeneration
1st Edition
By Catriona I. Macleod
August 17, 2010
Winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012! Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing ...
Hard Knocks: Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling
1st Edition
By Janice Haaken
June 17, 2010
This book draws on interviews carried out over a period of eight years, as well as novels, films, and domestic violence literature, to explain the role of storytelling in the history of the battered women’s movement. The author shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse get ...
The Gendered Unconscious: Can Gender Discourses Subvert Psychoanalysis?
1st Edition
By Louise Gyler
April 30, 2010
Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of these interventions by comparing the status and treatment of women in two different psychoanalytic ...
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
1st Edition
By Sam Warner
February 06, 2009
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. As such, it has long been of concern to feminists, and more recently mental health activists. This book draws on this revolutionary legacy, feminism and post-structuralism to critically examine current perceptions ...
Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance
1st Edition
By Michelle N. Lafrance
February 05, 2009
Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance takes a welcome look at women’s experiences of living well after depression. Lafrance argues that the social construction of femininity is dangerous for women’s health, and ultimately, central to their experiences of depression. Beginning with a ...
Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
1st Edition
By Lisa Baraitser
December 10, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award! Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However, ...
The Single Woman: A Discursive Investigation
1st Edition
By Jill Reynolds
June 20, 2008
The increase in numbers of single people has been described as one of the greatest social phenomena of western society. Most women will spend periods of their lives alone, without a committed partner relationship. Yet there is still a degree of social stigma attached to this status. Single women ...