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1. The Madness of Women

   Myth and Experience

   By Jane M. Ussher

   Series: 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 diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
2. Managing the Monstrous Feminine

   Regulating the Reproductive Body

   By Jane M. Ussher

   Series: 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 regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about...

   Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge
3. Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Problems

   New Directions in Theory and Practice

   Edited by Christine D. Baker, Jane M. Ussher

   Sexuality can be seen as a `problem' by many people being faced with media images and popular ideas of `normal' sexuality. Yet, despite critiques of sexology from authorities in psychoanalysis and feminism, sexuality is felt to be a problem for which help is sought. In Psychological Perspectives on...

   Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge