Psychology of Gender

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...

International Perspectives on Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology is a series of edited books, with a global focus, which reflect the state...

International Perspectives on Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology is a series of edited books, with a global focus, which reflect the state...

What is the spark that lights the fire of learning between learner and teacher? The approach to reflecting on this question is holistic and cross-d...

Identidad Femenina y Poder es una reflexión acerca de la violencia sobre el «sujeto femenino» que no siempre es evidente en lo social. Este libro e...

Few people realize how much science can tell us about the differences between men and women. Yves Christen, provided the first comprehensive overvi...

Representing an often overlooked population, this book explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ youth in Asian countries. Contributors focus on LGBTQ+ yo...

First published in 1994. This volume contains the proceedings of a historic meeting, attended by over 2,000 mental health professionals and lay peo...

When Darwin proposed that females shape evolution by being choosy in their choice of male suitors, his Victorian contemporaries were shocked that h...

For many years, addiction research focused almost exclusively on men. Yet scientific awareness of sex and gender differences in substance use disor...

This text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, s...

What is the difference between sex and gender? What is the impact of gender-role stereotypes on our lives, our relationships and the world? What do...

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...

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...

Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and maleBeing human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biol...

Originally published in 1993. The essays in this book collectively seek to illuminate the role of communication and sex-role socialization througho...

This special issue examines gender construction by children in some of its rich cultural and contextual complexity and in some of its interactions ...

Helping professionals across disciplines who are grappling with supporting non-binary and transgender clients, this book sets out a unique advocacy...

What is the difference between sex and gender? What is the impact of gender-role stereotypes on our lives, our relationships and the world? What do...

It is a truism in psychology that self and autobiographical memory are linked, yet we still know surprisingly little about the nature of this relat...