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79 produkter
Postfeminism and Body Image
Av Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2442 kr
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Postfeminism and Body Image is a groundbreaking work that provides a poststructuralist and psychosocial analysis of key issues at the intersections of body image, psychology and media. The book outlines the theoretical framework through the work of renowned philosophers, Michel Foucault and Gilles …
Postfeminism and Body Image
Av Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
630 kr
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Postfeminism and Body Image is a groundbreaking work that provides a poststructuralist and psychosocial analysis of key issues at the intersections of body image, psychology and media. The book outlines the theoretical framework through the work of renowned philosophers, Michel Foucault and Gilles …
Maternal Experience
Encounters with Ambivalence and Love
Av Margo Lowy
Inbunden, 2020
2442 kr
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The Maternal Experience explores the powerful and dynamic nature of maternal ambivalence and disrupts the conventional narrative of the mother’s lived experience by arguing that encounters with feelings of hatred are both universal and have the capacity to stimulate and enrich her maternal love.The …
Maternal Experience
Encounters with Ambivalence and Love
Av Margo Lowy
Häftad, 2020
630 kr
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The Maternal Experience explores the powerful and dynamic nature of maternal ambivalence and disrupts the conventional narrative of the mother’s lived experience by arguing that encounters with feelings of hatred are both universal and have the capacity to stimulate and enrich her maternal love.The …
Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health
Justice, Embodiment and Agency
Av Damien W. Riggs, Jane M. Ussher m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
622 kr
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Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social contexts, and their agency in advocating for change. Chapters cover a breadth of topics such as …
Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health
Justice, Embodiment and Agency
Av Damien W. Riggs, Jane M. Ussher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2198 kr
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Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social contexts, and their agency in advocating for change. Chapters cover a breadth of topics such as …
Menstrual Cycle
Av Anne Walker
Häftad, 1997
630 kr
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Anne Walker shows that women are neither the victims of raging hormonal fluctuations nor entirely unaffected by them. Unlike most previous publications that focus on menstruation (a part of the cycle), The Menstrual Cycle presents a well researched study of the entire menstrual cycle and its …
Post-Natal Depression
Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood
Häftad, 1998
630 kr
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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 …
Re-thinking Abortion
Psychology, Gender and the Law
Av Mary Boyle
Häftad, 1997
701 kr
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Women have been able to have abortions legally for over 30 years. Yet few books have considered it as anything other than a health issue. Mary Boyle breaks this mould by considering the constructions of abortion in Western society. Drawing on ideas from sociology, politics, anthropology and law as …
Being Married, Doing Gender
A Critical Analysis of Gender Relationships in Marriage
Häftad, 1998
798 kr
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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 …
Femininity and the Physically Active Woman
Häftad, 2000
630 kr
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The fitness boom of the last two decades has led to many people incorporating exercise into their lifestyles through activities such as jogging and aerobics. However, whilst many physical and psychological health benefits have been documented, far too few people actually take part in enough …
Understanding Depression
Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches
Häftad, 1999
742 kr
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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' …
Gender, Language and Discourse
Inbunden, 2002
2513 kr
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Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages?Gender, Language and Discourse uniquely examines the contribution that psychological research - in particular, discursive psychology - has made to answering these questions. Until now, books on gender and language have tended to be from …
Gender, Language and Discourse
Häftad, 2002
648 kr
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Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages?Gender, Language and Discourse uniquely examines the contribution that psychological research - in particular, discursive psychology - has made to answering these questions. Until now, books on gender and language have tended to be from …
Women and Aging
Transcending the Myths
Häftad, 1999
304 kr
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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 …
Sanctioning Pregnancy
A Psychological Perspective on the Paradoxes and Culture of Research
Av Harriet Gross, Helen Pattison
Häftad, 2007
750 kr
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Pregnancy provides a very public, visual confirmation of femininity. It is a time of rapid physical and psychological adjustment for women and is surrounded by stereotyping, taboos and social expectations. This book seeks to examine these popular attitudes towards pregnancy and to consider how they …
Accounting for Rape
Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
Av Irina Anderson, Kathy Doherty
Inbunden, 2007
2442 kr
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Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about sexual …
Accounting for Rape
Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
Av Irina Anderson, Kathy Doherty
Häftad, 2007
729 kr
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Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about sexual …
Gender Talk
Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis
Inbunden, 2005
2513 kr
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Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. In particular, the book concentrates on …
Gender Talk
Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis
Häftad, 2005
721 kr
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Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. In particular, the book concentrates on …
Science/Fiction of Sex
Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex
Av Annie Potts
Häftad, 2002
630 kr
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What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience? Is the penis an entity with a mind of its own? These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located, …
Body Work
The Social Construction of Women's Body Image
Häftad, 2005
798 kr
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Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality?Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying women who experience distress and anxiety …
Managing the Monstrous Feminine
Regulating the Reproductive Body
Inbunden, 2005
2442 kr
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Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about …
Managing the Monstrous Feminine
Regulating the Reproductive Body
Häftad, 2005
630 kr
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Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about …
Woman's Relationship with Herself
Gender, Foucault and Therapy
Inbunden, 2004
2442 kr
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Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of …
Woman's Relationship with Herself
Gender, Foucault and Therapy
Häftad, 2004
672 kr
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Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of …
Madness of Women
Myth and Experience
Av Jane M. Ussher, Jane Ussher
Inbunden, 2011
2513 kr
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Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men?If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain …
Madness of Women
Myth and Experience
Av Jane M. Ussher, Jane Ussher
Häftad, 2011
852 kr
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Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men?If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain …
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
Av Sam Warner
Inbunden, 2008
2407 kr
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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 …
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
Av Sam Warner
Häftad, 2008
630 kr
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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 …
