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]
Accounting for Rape: Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
1st Edition
By Irina Anderson, Kathy Doherty
January 28, 2008
Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about ...
Sanctioning Pregnancy: A Psychological Perspective on the Paradoxes and Culture of Research
1st Edition
By Harriet Gross, Helen Pattison
June 14, 2007
Pregnancy provides a very public, visual confirmation of femininity. It is a time of rapid physical and psychological adjustment for women and is surrounded by stereotyping, taboos and social expectations. This book seeks to examine these popular attitudes towards pregnancy and to consider how they...
The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Wendy Hollway
November 22, 2006
Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting. In this book, the author...
Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body
1st Edition
By Jane M. Ussher
February 06, 2006
Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about ...
Body Work: The Social Construction of Women's Body Image
1st Edition
By Sylvia K. Blood
August 24, 2005
Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality? Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying women who experience distress and anxiety ...
Gender Talk: Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis
1st Edition
By Susan A Speer
August 24, 2005
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. In particular, the book concentrates on...
Woman's Relationship with Herself: Gender, Foucault and Therapy
1st Edition
By Helen O'Grady
February 07, 2005
Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of ...
The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex
1st Edition
By Annie Potts
February 28, 2003
What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience? Is the penis an entity with a mind of its own? These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located, ...
Gender, Language and Discourse
1st Edition
By Ann Weatherall
September 27, 2002
Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages?Gender, Language and Discourse uniquely examines the contribution that psychological research - in particular, discursive psychology - has made to answering these questions. Until now, books on gender and language have tended to be ...
Femininity and the Physically Active Woman
1st Edition
By Precilla Y. L. Choi
October 20, 2000
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. However, whilst many physical and psychological health benefits have been documented, far too few people actually take part in enough ...
Understanding Depression: Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches
1st Edition
By Janet Stoppard
February 08, 2000
Women are particularly vulnerable to depression. Understanding Depression provides an in-depth critical examination of mainstream approaches to understanding and treating depression from a feminist perspective. Janet Stoppard argues that current approaches give only partial accounts of womens' ...
Women and Aging: Transcending the Myths
1st Edition
By Linda R. Gannon
June 21, 1999
Aging in women has traditionally been defined by the menopause, however it is often social and economic changes which are more important to women.In Aging in Women Linda Gannon redresses the balance. From a feminist perspective, she critically reviews current research and provides a more ...