Gender and Sexuality Arena

The Single Woman: A Discursive Investigation

Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence

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 are a crucial group for study in relation to perceived changes in family life and relationships. This book provides a new understanding of what is often taken-for-granted – female single identity.

A title in the Women and Psychology series (series edited by Jane Ussher).

find out more about The Single Woman

Social Work Education Special Issue - Sexualities

This special issue aims to extend and strengthen our knowledge and understanding of how sexuality effects social work education and how our own and others' sexualities impact on learning and teaching.

Particular emphasis is placed on challenging homophobia and questioning the norms of heterosexuality.

It introduces new understandings and key messages for the next generation of social work education.

find out more about this special issue of Social Work Education

New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders

We've lowered the amount you have to spend to get free shipping for orders in the UK and we've introduced a brand new free shipping threshold for customers in the US and Canada.

From now on, UK customers only need to spend £20 to qualify for free shipping (reduced from our previous post-free threshold of £30).

And US and Canadian customers can now also get free shipping on their orders by spending $35 (USD) or more.

Please note: these free shipping thresholds only apply to online orders placed through this website using our standard shipping service, not our express shipping service or for orders placed by other methods.

Practice - Call for Papers

Sexualities and Gender

Practice is planning to devote a special issue to the themes of sexuality and gender, to be edited by Anne Quinney (Joint Editor of Practice) and Guest Editors Trish Hafford-Letchfield (London South Bank University, UK) and Priscilla Dunk (Flinders University, Australia).

Practice welcomes papers from academics, policy makers, practice based staff, students and service users and carers.

It is anticipated that the special issue will be published during 2008 or early 2009.

find out more about this call for papers (PDF file)

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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) joins our group!

We're pleased to announce that LEA has joined the Taylor & Francis group of companies which includes Psychology Press and Routledge.

All of LEA's Gender and Sexuality books are now available on this arena.

The official announcement can be found on the news section of the Informa website.

New Gender & Sexuality Arena

Welcome to our new Gender & Sexuality arena. This is the latest of our arena redesigns to be unveiled (the others will be rolled out over the next few months) and we hope you find it an exciting development.

We hope you find this arena very easy to navigate around, because we know that you want to find the information you're after quickly, whether it's the 'buy now' link for a particular book, the date & venue of a forthcoming conference, or the online version of a specific academic journal article.

Apart from a completely new visual design and layout, we've added a number of new features to address your changing demands and requirements.

We hope we've made this arena invaluable for you, and we'd encourage you to add this site to your favourites, post it to del.icio.us (if you're a del.icio.us user), blog about it (then let us know), or recommend it to your friends and colleagues.

Here's a very brief overview of some of the new features:

RSS Feeds of latest titles

We've created an RSS Feed of our newest Gender & Sexuality books so that you can subscribe to receive news of our latest titles. RSS feeds are an increasingly popular way to check for news and updates from all the websites you regularly visit without having to visit them all individually.

We've created a page to explain more about RSS, which will also help you to subscribe using a wide range of freely available RSS Feed Readers.

You can also use our RSS feed to display an automatically-updated list of our latest Gender & Sexuality titles on your blog or website (let us know if you do this because we'd be interested to see).

Gender & Sexuality Conferences

We've updated our Gender & Sexuality Conferences listings with an interactive map (see screenshot, right), allowing you to see, at a glance, all of the events that are coming up near you.

You can zoom in for a closer look (close enough, in some cases, to get street directions!) and click on the map markers for conference details and a link to the conference's home page.

Journals

We've vastly increased the coverage of our academic journals on this arena, and linked them to our Online Journals website. This means that you're only a few clicks away from the latest academic journal articles.

Many universities and other institutions already subscribe to our journals, so you may already have immediate access to thousands of our online journal articles. If not then you can either choose to subscribe or, if it's more convenient for you, simply order an individual article.

Gender & Sexuality Blog Posts, Country-specific book listings, and more

There's a wealth of other new features, including the latest Blog Posts from around the world which have been tagged as being about Gender & Sexuality, and we've also made sure that all the books you see are available in your country by automatically identifying which country you're in (on the rare occasions when we might get it wrong you can manually override it on the User Preferences page).

We're very excited about the changes we've made to this arena, and as we mentioned earlier, we'll be updating all of our arenas over the coming months. But we don't want to rest on our laurels, so we'll be looking for new ways to improve the arenas and new features to offer you.

If you have any suggestions or comments then please don't hesitate to let us know.