Feminist Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery

   Body image, Shame and Narcissism

   By Jane Northrop

   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...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity

   By Alison Stone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
3. Sex Trafficking in South Asia

   Telling Maya's Story

   By Mary Crawford

   Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

   This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Madness of Women

   Myth and Experience

   By Jane M. Ussher

   Series: Women and 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 understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s distress, in a...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
5. Critical Psychology

   Edited by Ian Parker

   Series: Critical Concepts in Psychology

   Critical psychology has emerged as a vibrant site of research and reflection on the assumptions and practices of its host discipline. As serious scholarship flourishes in the area as never before, this new collection from the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, meets the...

   Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

   Feminist Reflections

   Edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill

   Series: Transformations

   Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Memory Matters

    Contexts for Understanding Sexual Abuse Recollections

    Edited by Janice Haaken, Paula Reavey

    This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numbers of therapists claimed that they were recovering deeply repressed memories of early sexual...

    Published July 16th 2009 by Routledge