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Accounting for Rape
Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
- By Irina Anderson, and Kathy Doherty.
- Series Edited by Jane Ussher.
Published November 2007
Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about…
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The Caveman Mystique
Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and Science
- By Martha McCaughey.
Published October 2007
Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers? Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common, and increasingly common excuses for men's sexual aggression. The Caveman Mystique traces such claims about the hairier sex through…
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Sanctioning Pregnancy
A Psychological Perspective on the Paradoxes and Culture of Research
- By Harriet Gross, and Helen Pattison.
Published April 2007
Pregnancy provides a very public, visual confirmation of femininity. It is a time of rapid physical and psychological adjustment for women and is surrounded by stereotyping, taboos and social expectations. This book seeks to examine these popular attitudes towards pregnancy and to consider how they…
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Je, Tu, Nous
Towards a Culture of Difference
- By Luce Irigaray.
Published January 2007
A passionate celebrator of "sexual difference," Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more fundamentally a society that celebrated the differences between the genders and their coming together in a union without hierarchy.…
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The Capacity to Care
Gender and Ethical Subjectivity
- By Wendy Hollway.
- Series Edited by Jane Ussher.
Published October 2006
Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting.
In this book, the…
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Managing the Monstrous Feminine
Regulating the Reproductive Body
- By Jane M. Ussher.
- Series Edited by Jane Ussher.
Published December 2005
Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about…
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Body Work
The Social Construction of Women's Body Image
- By Sylvia K. Blood.
Published July 2005
Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality
Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying women who experience distress and anxiety…
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Gender Talk
Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis
- By Susan A. Speer.
- Series Edited by Jane Ussher.
Published July 2005
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 providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. In particular, the book concentrates on…
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Woman's Relationship with Herself
Gender, Foucault and Therapy
- By Helen O'Grady.
Published February 2005
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 Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of…
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Just Sex?
The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape
- By Nicola Gavey.
Published December 2004
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 Western societies. This shift in perception has revealed the startling frequency of occurrences of date rape, obscuring…
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