Gender and Sexuality Arena

Gender Talk

Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis

• By Susan A. Speer
• Series Editor: Jane Ussher

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...

Published July 7th 2005 by Routledge.

more information about Gender Talk

Beauty and Misogyny

Harmful Cultural Practices in the West

• By Sheila Jeffreys
• Series Editor: Jane Ussher

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of...

Published June 23rd 2005 by Routledge.

more information about Beauty and Misogyny

Notes from the Margins

The Gay Analyst's Subjectivity in the Treatment Setting

• By Eric Sherman

Much has been written about the impact of gender and sexual orientation on the intersubjective field. Yet remarkably little has been written about the unique...

Published March 23rd 2005 by Routledge.

more information about Notes from the Margins

Woman's Relationship with Herself

Gender, Foucault and Therapy

• By Helen O'Grady

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...

Published February 7th 2005 by Routledge.

more information about Woman's Relationship with Herself

Geographies of Girlhood

Identities In-between

• Edited by Pamela J. Bettis, Natalie G. Adams

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between explores how adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are...

Published February 1st 2005 by Routledge.

more information about Geographies of Girlhood

Just Sex?

The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape

• By NICOLA GAVEY

Winner of the Association for Women In Psychology 2006 Distinguished Publication Award!

The past two decades have witnessed a significant shift in how rape is understood in...

Published December 9th 2004 by Routledge.

more information about Just Sex?

Sexual Assault in Context

Teaching College Men About Gender

• By Christopher Kilmartin, Alan D. Berkowitz

Most North American colleges have programs that help students understand the harm done to victims of sexual violence and, if prosecuted, the potential consequences of...

Published November 30th 2004 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

more information about Sexual Assault in Context

Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?

Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory

• By Lynne Layton

Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of...

Published March 30th 2004 by Routledge.

more information about Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?

Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy

A Framework for Clinical Practice

• By Eda Goldstein, Lois Horowitz

Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one...

Published July 1st 2003 by Routledge.

more information about Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy

Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of A Narrative Self

Developmental and Cultural Perspectives

• Edited by Robyn Fivush, Catherine A. Haden

It is a truism in psychology that self and autobiographical memory are linked, yet we still know surprisingly little about the nature of this relation....

Published March 1st 2003 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

more information about Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of A Narrative Self