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Men, Women and Relationships – A Post-Jungian Approach
Gender Electrics and Magic Beans
- By Phil Goss.
Published August 2010
This book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male-female relationships. Phil Goss places this discussion within an archetypal context drawing on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to consider the…
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'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion
Constructing a Threat of Degeneration
- By Catriona I. Macleod.
Published July 2010
Why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing persist? This book argues that the negativity surrounding early reproduction is underpinned by a particular understanding of adolescence. It traces the invention of…
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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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Understanding Non-Monogamies
- Edited by Meg Barker, and Darren Langdridge.
Published December 2009
Most social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in the context of 'infidelity'. Yet, in recent years there has been a growing interest among researchers and the public in exploring various patterns of…
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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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Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
- By Sam Warner.
- Series Edited by Jane Ussher.
Published December 2008
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. As such, it has long been of concern to feminists, and more recently mental health activists. This book draws on this revolutionary legacy, feminism and post-structuralism to critically examine current perceptions…
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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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Gender as Soft Assembly
- By Adrienne Harris.
Published December 2008
Gender as Soft Assembly weaves together insights from different disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical understanding of what it means to inhabit, to perform, and to be, gendered. Opposing the traditional notion of development as the linear unfolding of predictable stages,…
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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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