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Cultural Ecstasies
Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary
- By Ilana Mountian.
Published April 2012
In this important contribution to the field, Ilana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drug addiction, treatment and prevention, and highlights new ways of understanding the role that gender plays in the ethics of drug use across cultures.
The book analyses the discourses of…
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Sex/Gender
Biology in a Social World
- By Anne Fausto-Sterling.
Published April 2012
Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences.
This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling…
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Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery
Body image, Shame and Narcissism
- By Jane Northrop.
Published April 2012
Cosmetic surgery represents an extreme form of modern grooming. It is the fastest growing medical specialty, yet misconceptions abound about those who undertake it and their reasons for doing so. With a grounded approach, engaging 30 women through in-depth interview, this study explores how they…
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Gender, Culture, and Consumer Behavior
- Edited by Cele C. Otnes, and Linda Tuncay Zayer.
Published April 2012
This book covers the gamut of topics related to gender and consumer culture. Changing gender roles have forced scholars and practitioners to re-examine some of the fundamental assumptions and theories in this area. Gender is a core component of identity and thus holds significant implications…
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The Science of the Couple
The Ontario Symposium Volume 12
- Edited by Lorne Campbell, Jennifer La Guardia, James M. Olson and Mark P Zanna.
Published February 2012
Although love and relationships have been focal points for poets and philosophers for thousands of years, these topics had not traditionally been the focus of empirical research. As a result, very little was known about how couples maintained happiness and satisfaction in their relationships, or…
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Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities
4th Edition
- By Diane F. Halpern.
Published September 2011
The fourth edition of Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities critically examines the breadth of research on this complex and controversial topic, with the principal aim of helping the reader to understand where sex differences are found – and where they are not.
Since the publication of the third…
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The Madness of Women
Myth and Experience
- By Jane M. Ussher.
Published March 2011
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 women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s distress, in a…
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Men, Women and Relationships – A Post-Jungian Approach
Gender Electrics and Magic Beans
- By Phil Goss.
Published August 2010
This book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male-female relationships. Phil Goss places this discussion within an archetypal context drawing on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to consider the…
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'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion
Constructing a Threat of Degeneration
- By Catriona I. Macleod.
Published June 2010
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 persist? This book argues that the negativity surrounding early…
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Hard Knocks
Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling
- By Janice Haaken.
Published April 2010
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…
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