Gender and Sexuality Arena

Understanding Depression

Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches

• By Janet Stoppard.

Published November 1999

Women are particularly vulnerable to depression. Understanding Depression provides an in-depth critical examination of mainstream approaches to understanding and treating depression from a feminist perspective. Janet Stoppard argues that current approaches give only partial accounts of womens'…
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Revolutions of the Heart

Gender, Power and the Delusions of Love

• By Wendy Langford.

Published May 1999

This book looks at how heterosexual relationships really work. Author?? argues that the process of falling in love is just a brief holiday from the gender roles which quickly reassert themselves in their old forms. Topics covered include romantic love, the problem of desire and the trouble with…
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Women and Aging

Transcending the Myths

• By Linda R. Gannon.

Published April 1999

Aging in women has traditionally been defined by the menopause, however it is often social and economic changes which are more important to women.In Aging in Women Linda Gannon redresses the balance. From a feminist perspective, she critically reviews current research and provides a more…
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Being Married, Doing Gender

A Critical Analysis of Gender Relationships in Marriage

• By Caroline Dryden.

Published December 1998

In one of the first psychological studies of women in heterosexual relationships, Caroline Dryden examines the social context of their experiences and emotional struggles. Unlike the developmental literature in which women are studied only as mothers, or the clinical literature which has little…
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Communicating Gender

• By Suzanne Romaine.

Published September 1998

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. In addition to linguistics--which provides the starting point and central focus of the book--she draws on the fields of…
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Queer Theory in Education

• Edited by William F. Pinar.

Published August 1998

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 brings together the most prominent and promising scholars in the field of education--primarily but not exclusively in…
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Post-Natal Depression

Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood

• By Paula Nicolson.

Published June 1998

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 science explanations of 'post natal depression' by supplying a systematic feminist psychological analysis of women's experiences following…
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Stereotype Activation and Inhibition

Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XI

• Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr..

Published April 1998

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 the field began. Although motivational and cognitive influences on stereotyping have been considered, these two general types of influence have…
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Gender and Social Psychology

• By Vivien Burr.
• Foreword by Dr Perry R Hinton.

Published April 1998

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 of gender, examining key issues such a family roles and parenting, inequalities in education, jobs and pay, and the effects…
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Lesbian Lives

Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New

• By Maggie Magee, and Diana C. Miller.

Published December 1997

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 a lesbian-specific psychology. Rather, they focus on a set of interrelated issues of far greater salience in our time:…
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