Feminist Psychology Products

By Fiona Buchanan

This unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women and their babies in domestic violence. Fiona Buchanan identifies a way forward for working with women, babies and people who have grown up with…

Paperback – 2017-10-17
Routledge
Women and Psychology

By Damien W Riggs, Clemence Due

This comprehensive text makes an important contribution to the study of surrogacy, developing a novel theoretical framework through which to understand the broader social contexts as well as individual decisions at play within surrogacy arrangements. Drawing on empirical research conducted by the…

Paperback – 2017-09-13
Routledge
Critical Approaches to Health

Edited by Cynthia Berryman-Fink, Deborah Ballard-Reisch, Lisa H. Newman

Originally published in 1993. The essays in this book collectively seek to illuminate the role of communication and sex-role socialization throughout the life cycle. Section 1 addresses some important issues and behaviours that have an impact on the beginnings of the socialization process. Section…

Paperback – 2017-08-29
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies

By Melanie Judge

As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power…

Paperback – 2017-08-22
Routledge
Concepts for Critical Psychology

By Kathleen Skott-Myhre

Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women’s ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism discusses the importance of women’s spiritual…

Paperback – 2017-07-04
Routledge
Concepts for Critical Psychology

By Julie A. Nelson

The belief that men and women have fundamentally distinct natures, resulting in divergent preferences and behaviours, is widespread. Recently, economists have also engaged in the search for gender differences, with a number claiming to find fundamental gender differences regarding risk-taking,…

Paperback – 2017-06-21
Routledge
Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

Edited by Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Fulvia Prever

This book brings together an international selection of academics with expertise in problem gambling issues in women, with chapters reflecting ongoing work with female gamblers across the world in both group and individual settings. In choosing such a specific patient group, the authors aim to…

Paperback – 2017-06-19
Routledge

By Sherianne Kramer

Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the…

Paperback – 2017-05-30
Routledge
Concepts for Critical Psychology

Edited by Kathryn L. 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…

Paperback – 2017-05-25
Routledge

By Elizabeth Hughes

Adopted Women and Biological Fathers offers a critical and deconstructive challenge to the dominant notions of adoptive identity. The author explores adoptive women’s experiences of meeting their biological fathers and reflects on personal narratives to give an authoritative overview of both the…

Paperback – 2017-03-01
Routledge
Women and Psychology

Edited by Ellen L.K. Toronto, Joann Ponder, Kristin Davisson, Maurine Kelber Kelly

Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women’s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unstable and subject to societal whim. A Womb of Her…

Paperback – 2017-02-21
Routledge

By Gail Davidge

Since the very first ‘co-operative’ school opened its doors in 2008, the complicated relations between ‘co-operative’ approaches to schooling and democratic subjectivity remain unexplored. This ground breaking book considers the role of ‘voice’ in co-operative schooling and its place in radical…

Paperback – 2016-08-25
Routledge
Concepts for Critical Psychology