The Thin Woman

Helen Malson

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psycholog... Lees meer

Mothering Babies in Domestic Violence

Fiona Buchanan

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• This unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women a... Lees meer

Domestic Violence and Psychology

Paula Nicolson

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Despite changes to laws and policies across most western democracies intended to combat violence to women, intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) ... Lees meer

Accounting for Rape

Irina Anderson, Kathy Doherty

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate... Lees meer

Postfeminism and Body Image

Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans, Martine Robson

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Postfeminism and Body Image is a groundbreaking work that provides a poststructuralist and psychosocial analysis of key issues at the intersections of... Lees meer

Gender Talk

Susan A Speer

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cu... Lees meer

Women and Aging

Linda R Gannon

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• 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 ... Lees meer

Beauty and Misogyny

Sheila Jeffreys

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and... Lees meer

The Psychological Development of Girls and Women

Sheila Greene

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Choice Recommended Read This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development o... Lees meer

Maternal Encounters

Lisa Baraitser

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology | nr. 10
• Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award! Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the e... Lees meer

Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

Sam Warner

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• 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 recen... Lees meer

Post-Natal Depression

Paula Nicolson

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Post-Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a 'happy mother'. It provides a radical critique of the traditional medical a... Lees meer

Maternal Encounters

Lisa Baraitser

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Drawing on contemporary philosophies of feminist ethics as well as psychoanalytic theorists, this book addresses a gap in theoretical work on contempo... Lees meer

Femininity and the Physically Active Woman

Precilla Y L Choi

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• The fitness boom of the last two decades has led to many people incorporating exercise into their lifestyles through activities such as jogging and ae... Lees meer

The Capacity to Care

Wendy Hollway

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this vol... Lees meer

The Menstrual Cycle

Anne Walker

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Anne Walker shows that women are neither the victims of raging hormonal fluctuations nor entirely unaffected by them. Unlike most previous publication... Lees meer

Sanctioning Pregnancy

Harriet Gross, Helen Pattison

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Pregnancy provides a very public, visual confirmation of femininity. It is a time of rapid physical and psychological adjustment for women and is surr... Lees meer

The Gendered Unconscious

Louise Gyler

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psycho... Lees meer

The Single Woman

Jill Reynolds

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology | nr. 5
• The increase in numbers of single people has been described as one of the greatest social phenomena of western society. Most women will spend periods ... Lees meer

Fat Lives

Irmgard Tischner

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Within the context of the current 'obesity debate', this book investigates the embodied experience of 'being large' from a critical psychological pers... Lees meer

Beauty and Misogyny

Sheila Jeffreys

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and... Lees meer

Bodies that Birth

Rachelle Chadwick

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Bodies that Birth puts birthing bodies at the centre of questions about contemporary birth politics, power, and agency. Arguing that the fleshy and em... Lees meer

Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when negotiating reprod... Lees meer

Women, Sex, and Madness

Breanne Fahs

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Covering a wide variety of subjects and points of inquiry on women's sexuality, from genital anxieties about pubic hair to constructions of the body i... Lees meer