Psychology of Gender

Major psychoanalytic thinkers from Freud to Ricoeur to Lacan considered the Oedipus complex the key to explaining the human psyche and human sexual...

Gender and Social Hierarchies offers a fresh and coherent picture of applied research from within social psychology on the intricate relationship b...

Psychiatry and psychology have a long and highly debated history in relation to gender. In particular, they have attracted criticism for policing t...

This issue explores some of the ways in which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational processes in ch...

Originally published in 1987, a well-known Jungian analyst, the late Bani Shorter writes here about how women are initiated into becoming themselve...

Injured Men is a unique casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma. With the exception of those publications dealing...

First published in 1981, this title takes a ‘sociobiological’ approach to the exploration of sexual habits, looking at the fundamental biological n...

First published in 1981, this title takes a ‘sociobiological’ approach to the exploration of sexual habits, looking at the fundamental biological n...

Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood in contemporary feminism and politics. It focuses on popular and scholarly constructions of femini...

In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central ...

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

In this book a group of contemporary psychoanalytic authors dedicated to studies on women and the feminine have been assembled with the objective o...

Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory presents Kate Bush as you have never seen her before. Encounter the polymorphously perverse Kate, the witchy Kat...

Injured Men is a unique casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma. With the exception of those publications dealing...

The increase in numbers of single people has been described as one of the greatest social phenomena of western society. Most women will spend perio...

In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. This book documents various forms of queer...

This timely and urgent text presents cutting-edge research exploring the complexities of barriers to inclusive access to sport and physical activit...

This timely and urgent text presents cutting-edge research exploring the complexities of barriers to inclusive access to sport and physical activit...

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...

Bringing together the latest research with practical insights from the authors’ professional experience, this important book provides a context for...

Bringing together the latest research with practical insights from the authors’ professional experience, this important book provides a context for...

Truth has always been a central philosophical category, occupying different fields of knowledge and practice. In the current moment of fake news an...

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

Non-Binary Gender Identities examines how non-binary people discover, adopt, and negotiate language in a variety of social settings, both offline a...

This unique book draws on the narratives of women participants in community radio, using intersectionality, feminist, critical psychological and co...

Non-Binary Gender Identities examines how non-binary people discover, adopt, and negotiate language in a variety of social settings, both offline a...

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

This unique book draws on the narratives of women participants in community radio, using intersectionality, feminist, critical psychological and co...

This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bis...

This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. We are living, learning, and teaching by questioning ...

A dynamic guide to owning your ambition and striving for success in an ever-changing world, while helping others along the way.'Practical and big-...

Sexuality in Emerging Adulthood provides a comprehensive overview of sexuality at the stage straddling adolescence and adulthood. The first section...

Between the first and second decade of the millennium, women across the world reconsidered the sexual roles they had been playing under patriarchy....

What influences political behavior more -- one's gender or one's gendered personality traits? Certain gendered traits have long been associated w...

This ground-breaking text explores the contemporary history of how psychological research, practice, and theory has engaged with gay and lesbian mo...

What influences political behavior more -- one's gender or one's gendered personality traits? Certain gendered traits have long been associated w...

This ground-breaking text explores the contemporary history of how psychological research, practice, and theory has engaged with gay and lesbian mo...

The increase in the number of non-binary children and adults in our society raises important treatment questions as well as much controversy. It se...

In this engrossing exploration of men's motives for war, the author argues persuasively that one important subconscious reason young men volunteer ...

Is Trauma a transhistorical, transnational phenomenon? Gender and Trauma challenges the standard history that has led to our contemporary understan...

The Tyranny of Identity is both a personal and highly interdisciplinary examination of the wide range of factors and disciplines at play in the for...

The Tyranny of Identity is both a personal and highly interdisciplinary examination of the wide range of factors and disciplines at play in the for...

Pregnancy provides a very public, visual confirmation of femininity. It is a time of rapid physical and psychological adjustment for women and is s...

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, this book reviews the research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives inc...

First published in 1987, this book presents contributions from international authorities reviewing major themes in variant sexuality. Genetic and e...

Pregnancy provides a very public, visual confirmation of femininity. It is a time of rapid physical and psychological adjustment for women and is s...