Gender and Sexuality Arena

Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

Feminist Reflections

• Edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood, and Rosalind Gill.

Published September 2010

Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less…
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Domestic Violence and Psychology

A Critical Perspective

• By Paula Nicolson.
• Series Edited by Jane Ussher.

Published June 2010

This book rethinks the way psychological knowledge of domestic violence has typically been constructed. It puts forward a psychological perspective which is both critical of the traditional ‘woman blaming’ stance, as well as being at odds with the feminist position that men are wholly to blame…
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Hard Knocks

Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling

• By Janice Haaken.

Published April 2010

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…
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The Gendered Unconscious

Can Gender Discourses Subvert Psychoanalysis?

• By Louise Gyler.

Published April 2010

Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of these interventions by comparing the status and treatment of women in two different psychoanalytic…
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Sex Trafficking in South Asia

Telling Maya's Story

• By Mary Crawford.

Published December 2009

This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary…
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Memory Matters

Contexts for Understanding Sexual Abuse Recollections

• Edited by Janice Haaken, and Paula Reavey.

Published July 2009

This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numbers of therapists claimed that they were recovering deeply repressed memories of early sexual…
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Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

• Edited by Helen Malson, and Maree Burns.

Published May 2009

Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within the dominant cultural milieus of the early…
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Women and Depression

Recovery and Resistance

• By Michelle N. Lafrance.
• Series Edited by Jane Ussher.

Published December 2008

Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance takes a welcome look at women’s experiences of living well after depression. Lafrance argues that the social construction of femininity is dangerous for women’s health, and ultimately, central to their experiences of depression. Beginning with a…
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Maternal Encounters

The Ethics of Interruption

• By Lisa Baraitser.
• Series Edited by Jane Ussher.

Published October 2008

Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award! Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However,…
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The Single Woman

A Discursive Investigation

• By Jill Reynolds.

Published April 2008

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…
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