Social Psychology 2013

Gender Identity and Sex Roles

1. Knowing Victims

   Feminism and Victim Politics in Neoliberal Times

   By Rebecca Stringer

   Series: Women and Psychology

   Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood in contemporary feminism. Analyzing the debate about ‘victim feminism’ that has unfolded since the 1980s, the author critically weighs the key recurrent claim voiced in this debate: that feminists need to abandon the woman-as-victim theme if they are...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Fat Lives

   A Feminist Psychological Exploration

   By Irmgard Tischner

   Series: Women and Psychology

   Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out the content of a ‘fat’ person’s supermarket trolley? Ever wondered what lies behind this behaviour, or what it might be like to be at the receiving end of this judging gaze? Within the context of the current ‘obesity debate’, this book...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion

   Constructing a Threat of Degeneration

   By Catriona I. Macleod

   Series: Women and Psychology

   Winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012! Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
5. Domestic Violence and Psychology

   A Critical Perspective

   By Paula Nicolson

   Series: Women and Psychology

   This book rethinks the way psychological knowledge of domestic violence has typically been constructed. It puts forward a psychological perspective which is both critical of the traditional ‘woman blaming’ stance, as well as being at odds with the feminist position that men are wholly to blame...

   Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
6. Hard Knocks

   Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling

   By Janice Haaken

   Series: Women and Psychology

   This book draws on interviews carried out over a period of eight years, as well as novels, films, and domestic violence literature, to explain the role of storytelling in the history of the battered women’s movement. The author shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse get...

   Published April 27th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Gendered Unconscious

   Can Gender Discourses Subvert Psychoanalysis?

   By Louise Gyler

   Series: Women and Psychology

   Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of these interventions by comparing the status and treatment of women in two different psychoanalytic...

   Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge