Gender and Sexuality Arena

Communicating Gender

• By Suzanne Romaine

Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Suzanne Romaine's main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture....

Published October 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Queer Theory in Education

• Edited by William F. Pinar

Theoretical studies in curriculum have begun to move into cultural studies--one vibrant and increasingly visible sector of which is queer theory. Queer Theory in Education...

Published September 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Post-Natal Depression

Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood

• By Paula Nicolson

Post-Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a 'happy mother'. It provides a radical critique of the traditional medical and social...

Published June 18th 1998 by Routledge.

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Stereotype Activation and Inhibition

Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XI

• Edited by Jr., Robert S. Wyer

The use of social sterotypes as a basis for judgments and behavioral decisions has been a major focus of social psychological theory and research since...

Published May 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Gender and Social Psychology

• By Vivien Burr

Explaining theory and research in an accessible but thorough manner, Gender and Social Psychology critically evaluates the contribution that psychology has made to the study...

Published April 2nd 1998 by Routledge.

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Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication

Critical Essays and Empirical investigations of Sex and Gender in interaction

• Edited by Daniel J. Canary, Kathryn Dindia

Men and women differ, to be sure, and numerous academic and lay books have exploited those differences. This book does not presume that sex and...

Published February 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Men in Families

When Do They Get involved? What Difference Does It Make?

• Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter

Recently, the roles of fathers and husbands in families have been recognized as important issues. They appear in legislation aimed at deadbeat dads, social movements...

Published January 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Lesbian Lives

Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New

• By Maggie Magee, Diana C. Miller

In this groundbreaking re-visioning of lesbianism, Magee and Miller transcend a literature that, for decades, has focused on the timeworn and misconceived task of formulating...

Published January 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Being An Older Woman

A Study in the Social Production of Identity

• By Isabella Paoletti

The study presented in this volume examines how older women's identities are socially constructed and, in particular, how they can be influenced by institutional intervention....

Published December 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Black Women's Health

A Special Double Issue of women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy

• Edited by Hope Landrine, Elizabeth A. Klonoff

In this special issue, top researchers from a diversity of disciplines provide an overview of and insights into the major social, cultural, and structural variables...

Published December 1st 1997 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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