Gender and Sexuality Arena

The Thin Woman

Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa

• By Helen Malson

The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with...

Published November 13th 1997 by Routledge.

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Re-thinking Abortion

Psychology, Gender and the Law

• By Mary Boyle

Women have been able to have abortions legally for over 30 years. Yet few books have considered it as anything other...

Published November 6th 1997 by Routledge.

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The Menstrual Cycle

• By Anne Walker

Anne Walker shows that women are neither the victims of raging hormonal fluctuations nor entirely unaffected by them. Unlike most previous publications that focus on...

Published July 31st 1997 by Routledge.

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Gender Equity Right From the Start

• By Jo Sanders, Janice Koch, Josephine Urso

What makes girls avoid math, science, and technology in school? And what can teacher educators do to help new teachers keep this from happening so...

Published July 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Gender Equity Sources and Resources for Education Students

• By Jo Sanders, Janice Koch, Josephine Urso

What makes girls avoid math, science, and technology in school? And what can teacher educators do to help new teachers keep this from happening so...

Published July 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Constituting Gender Through Talk in Childhood

Conversations in Parent-child, Peer, and Sibling Relationships:a Special Issue of research on Language and Social interaction

• Edited by Amy Sheldon

This issue explores some of the ways in which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational processes in childhood....

Published February 1st 1996 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Gender, Power, and Communication in Human Relationships

• Edited by Pamela J. Kalbfleisch, Michael J. Cody

This edited volume establishes a state-of-the-art perspective on theory and research on gender, power, and communication in human relationships. Both theoretical essays and review chapters...

Published June 1st 1995 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Gender Tales

Tensions in the Schools

• Edited by Judith S. Kleinfeld, Suzanne Yerian

A book of "real world" cases, this text introduces "flashpoint" issues related to gender equity in the schools. It immerses readers in the human dilemmas...

Published May 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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Gender, Sex and Sexuality

Contemporary Psychological Perspectives

• By Gerda Siann

For some time sex has been defined as the biological difference between men and women, and gender as the manner in which culture defines and...

Published July 14th 1994 by Taylor and Francis.

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Career Counseling for Women

• Edited by W. Bruce Walsh, Samuel H. Osipow

Social trends over the past 25 years strongly indicate the significance of occupational pursuits in the plans and lives of women. In the future, most...

Published November 1st 1993 by Routledge.

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