The Gender and Sexuality Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Gender and Sexuality books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.

Subjects covered by this Arena include: Feminist Psychology, Gender Identity and Sex Roles, Gender Issues, Gender Development, and Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders.

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‘Adolescence’, Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing a Threat of Degeneration

‘Adolescence’, Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing a Threat of Degeneration

Routledge congratulates Professor Catriona Macleod whose book ‘Adolescence’, Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing a Threat of Degeneration has been awarded the 2011 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!

The Distinguished Publication Award (DPA) recognizes works that make significant and substantial contributions to research and theory that advance our understanding of the psychology of women and that promote the achievement of the goals of the Association for Women in Psychology.

‘Adolescence’, Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing a Threat of Degeneration asks why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing persist? The author argues that the negativity surrounding early reproduction is underpinned by a particular understanding of adolescence, and traces the invention of "adolescence" and the imaginary wall that the notion constructs between young people and adults.

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Gender in the Therapy Hour

Gender in the Therapy Hour

This edited book looks at how a variety of female therapists understand men’s issues in the context of their clinical work.

Each chapter is written by a female mental health professional and explores how they got involved in men’s issues, case studies and examples from their own practices that illustrate their approach, and their own assessments of what works best with male clients.

Topics considered include core treatment issues, such as transference and counter-transference, beginning and ending therapy with men, and ethical dilemmas; working in different therapy modalities (group counseling, couples counseling, etc.); and doing therapy with various populations of men, such as violent men, depressed men, and men of different ethnicities.

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Individualizing Gender and Sexuality

Individualizing Gender and Sexuality

Nancy Chodorow, in her groundbreaking book The Reproduction of Mothering, quite simply changed the conversation in at least three areas of study: psychoanalysis, women's studies, and sociology.

In her latest book, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality, she examines the complexity and uniqueness of each person's personal creation of sexuality and gender and the ways that these interrelate with other aspects of psychic and cultural life.

She brings her well-known theoretical agility, wide-ranging interdisciplinarity, and clinical experience to every chapter, advocating for the clinician's openness, curiosity, and theoretical pluralism.

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