Feminist Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. Women as Political Leaders

   Studies in Gender and Governing

   Edited by Michael A. Genovese, Janie S. Steckenrider

   Series: LEADERSHIP: Research and Practice

   Over the past several years, the fields of Leadership Studies and of Women's Studies have grown tremendously. This book, which is a series of case studies of women who have headed governments across the globe, will discuss the conditions and situations under which women rose to power and give...

   Published March 11th 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. 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 October 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Global Border Crossings

   Feminist Activists and Peace Workers Collaborating Across Cultures

   Edited by Kathryn Norsworthy, Ellyn Kaschak

   This book brings together a group of feminist activists, psychologists, and peace workers from countries on every continent who describe how they apply global/transnational feminism in their activist peace and justice projects in the cultures and countries in which they live and work. The...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Fat

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Shortcuts

   In contemporary western societies the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized and...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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