Bodies that Birth

Rachelle Chadwick

• Hardcover | 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

Understanding Depression

Janet Stoppard

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Women are particularly vulnerable to depression. Understanding Depression provides an in-depth critical examination of mainstream approaches to unders... 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

Managing the Monstrous Feminine

Jane M Ussher

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and reg... 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

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

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

Housing, Individuals and the State

Peter King

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Can the state solve housing problems or does it create them? This book explores the question by combining a detailed critique of contemporary housing ... Lees meer

Just Sex?

Nicola Gavey

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, ana... Lees meer

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

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

Body Work

Sylvia K Blood

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality? Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sy... Lees meer

Re-thinking Abortion

Mary Boyle

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

Femininity and the Physically Active Woman

Precilla Y L Choi

• Paperback | 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 Madness of Women

Jane Ussher, Jane M Ussher

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagn... Lees meer

Managing the Monstrous Feminine

Jane M Ussher

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and reg... Lees meer

Gender Talk

Susan A Speer

• Paperback | 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

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

Reframing Trauma Through Social Justice

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• This cross disciplinary volume examines and reframes trauma as a social and political issue in the context of wider society, critiquing the widely acc... Lees meer

The Madness of Women

Jane M Ussher, Jane Ussher

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagn... Lees meer

Gender, Language and Discourse

Ann Weatherall

• Hardcover | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages? Gender, Language and Discourse uniquely examines the contribution that psychological r... Lees meer

Women Voicing Resistance

• Paperback | Engels | Women and Psychology
• Feminist scholars have demonstrated how 'dominant discourses' and 'master narratives' frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and... Lees meer