(Not in 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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Psychotherapy with Older Men
Growing older can be a time of great joy and satisfaction for men as they look back on their accomplishments and gain more free time, but it can also be a challenging and distressing experience, especially for those men raised with the very traditional notions of what it means to be a "real man."
This book will help practitioners working with older and aging men understand the eras in which these men were raised, how they view the world, the gender role conflicts they experience, and the physical, mental, and emotional challenges and problems they face during the later stages of their lives.
Men, Women and Relationships – A Post-Jungian Approach: Gender Electrics and Magic Beans
This book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male–female relationships.
Phil Goss places this discussion within an archetypal context, drawing on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to consider the deep tension in western culture between the transcendent masculine and the immanent feminine.
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"Adolescence", Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing A Threat of Degeneration
Why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion, and childbearing persist?
This book argues that the negativity surrounding early reproduction is underpinned by a particular understanding of adolescence.
It traces the invention of ‘adolescence’ and the imaginary wall that the notion constructs between young people and adults.
Domestic Violence and Psychology
This book rethinks the way psychological knowledge of domestic violence has typically been constructed.
As well as being critical of the traditional ‘woman blaming’ stance, it is also at odds with the feminist position that men are wholly culpable for domestic abuse, and that violence in intimate relationships is caused by gender power relations.
Instead, it argues that to neglect the emotions, experiences and psychological explanations for domestic violence is to fail those who suffer, and thwart attempts to prevent future abuse.
Hard Knocks: Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling
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 told, and offers critical tools for bringing psychology into discussions of group dynamics in the domestic violence field.