Psychology of Gender

Women’s Lives integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethn...

This book aims to be a comprehensive resource that will apprise readers of the complex dynamics of the psychological interiors of women and others ...

This book explores the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality from the past to the present and is unique in extending the discussion to focus...

This book explores the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality from the past to the present and is unique in extending the discussion to focus...

This ground-breaking book explores contemporary forms of BDSM where women dominate in relationships and professions, opening new paths for psycholo...

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) feminist visionaries have contributed to ...

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 constr...

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 constr...

Most social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in th...

How do men think about fathering? How does this differ across different regions of the world? And what effect does this have on child development? ...

Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women’s ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms...

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades. She is one of the founders of relational psycho...

Sexuality in Adolescence considers the latest theory and research on adolescent development, focusing on sexuality as a vital aspect of normal, hea...

In Intimate Relationships in China in the Light of Depth Psychology: A Study of Gender and Integrity, Huan Wang presents an overview of Jungian ide...

Originally published in 1984. The history of sex in the last 100 years has usually been written as a story of progress from repression to sexual li...

Originally published in 1979. This is at once a look at the realities of homosexuality in history and an examination of the myths that have grown u...

Originally published in 1977. For centuries myth, misinformation and taboo have distorted our vision of our sexual nature. This book examines such ...

In Intimate Relationships in China in the Light of Depth Psychology: A Study of Gender and Integrity, Huan Wang presents an overview of Jungian ide...

The Maternal Experience explores the powerful and dynamic nature of maternal ambivalence and disrupts the conventional narrative of the mother’s li...

The question of exactly what sex differences exist and whether they have a biological foundation has been one of our culture's favorite enduring di...

At a United Nations conference in 1995, 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, an international agenda for women's equality and a...

In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, ...

In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, ...

The female homosexual in South Asia is not always a visible lesbian person. She is often a figuration of an act that challenges hegemonic ideas of ...

"A magical novel on the theme of androgyny. Funny, subtle, poignant..." - Nadine Sautel, Magazine littéraire"Jacqueline Harpman drags us into one o...

Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change provides one of the first in-depth examinations of women age 65 and older who have delayed ret...

This inspiring book introduces the psychologies of womanists and mujeristas—African American women and Latinas, respectively, who have a broad and ...

Over 20 million American women and girls have some form of disability. Women with disabilities often have difficulty accessing health care services...

In her book "In a Different Voice", psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not su...

Do boys and girls like different toys? What social, cognitive, and biological factors influence the design and marketing of gender-typed toys, and ...

‘All that is left is to pretend. But to pretend to the end of one’s life is the highest torment.’ So wrote the composer Peter Tchaikovsky following...

This fully updated and revised 8th edition examines the behavioral, biological, and social context in which people express gendered behaviors, util...