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Women and Psychology Series

35 primary works • 35 total works
This series brings together current theory and research on women and psychology. Drawing on scholarship from a number of different areas of psychology, it bridges the gap between abstract research and the reality of women’s lives by integrating theory and practice, research and policy. Series Editor: Jane Ussher. Routledge.
Femininity and the Physically Active Woman
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4.67 · 3 Ratings · published 2000 · 11 editions
The fitness boom of the last two decades has led t…

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    The Thin Woman
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    4.18     · 38 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 18 editions
    The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of …

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    The Menstrual Cycle
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    4.00     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 14 editions
    Anne Walker shows that women are neither the victi…

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    Post-Natal Depression
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 1998 · 10 editions
    Post-Natal Depression challenges the expectation t…

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    Re-thinking Abortion: Psychology, Gender and the Law
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · published 1997 · 10 editions
    Women have been able to have abortions legally for…

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    Women and Aging
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 1999 · 10 editions
    Aging in women has traditionally been defined by t…

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    Being Married, Doing Gender
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 7 editions
    In one of the first psychological studies of women…

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    Understanding Depression: Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 2000 · 8 editions
    Women are particularly vulnerable to depression. U…

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    Gender, Language and Discourse
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    3.77     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 10 editions
    Is language sexist? Do women and men speak differe…

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    The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2003 · 7 editions
    What can we learn from exploring the differences i…

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    The Psychological Development of Girls and Women
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · published 2003 · 16 editions
    Choice Recommended Read This thoroughly revised ne…

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    Just Sex?: The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape
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    4.19     · 59 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2005 · 13 editions
    Winner of the Association for Women In Psychology …

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    Woman's Relationship with Herself
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    4.38     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions
    Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the rel…

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    Gender Talk: Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis
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    4.67     · 9 Ratings · published 2004 · 14 editions
    Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the appli…

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    Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West
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    4.03     · 432 Ratings · 52 Reviews · published 2005 · 22 editions
    Should western beauty practices, ranging from lips…

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    Body Work: The Social Construction of Women's Body Image
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    3.79     · 14 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 12 editions
    Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to …

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    Managing the Monstrous Feminine
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    4.16     · 32 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 11 editions
    Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique app…

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    The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity
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    5.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2006 · 10 editions
    Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely a…

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    Sanctioning Pregnancy: A Psychological Perspective on the Paradoxes and Culture of Research
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2006 · 12 editions
    Pregnancy provides a very public, visual confirmat…

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    Accounting for Rape: Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
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    4.22     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 9 editions
    Accounting for Rape presents an original perspecti…

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    The Single Woman: A Discursive Investigation
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    4.29     · 7 Ratings · published 2008 · 9 editions
    The increase in numbers of single people has been …

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    Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
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    4.62     · 8 Ratings · published 2008 · 12 editions
    Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Women's Studies A…

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    Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance
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    4.60     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 10 editions
    "Women and Recovery and Resistance" takes a welcom…

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    Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
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    4.33     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 10 editions
    Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negati…

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    The Gendered Unconscious
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2010 · 11 editions
    Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have ofte…

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    Hard Knocks: Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · published 2010 · 6 editions
    This book draws on interviews carried out over a p…

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    Domestic Violence and Psychology: A Critical Perspective
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    3.86     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 12 editions
    This book rethinks the way psychological knowledge…

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    'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2010 · 2 editions
    Winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's …

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    The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience
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    3.95     · 43 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2008 · 11 editions
    Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication A…

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    Fat Lives: A Feminist Psychological Exploration
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    3.83     · 6 Ratings · published 2012 · 6 editions
    Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out …

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    Women Voicing Resistance: Discursive and Narrative Explorations
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    5.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2014 · 10 editions

    Feminist scholars have demonstrated how ‘dominant …

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    Knowing Victims
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    4.05     · 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2014 · 11 editions
    Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood i…

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    Adopted Women and Biological Fathers: Reimagining stories of Origin and Trauma
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 6 editions

    Adopted Women and Biological Fathers offers a crit…

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    Mothering Babies in Domestic Violence
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 6 editions
    This unique book offers an innovative feminist cri…

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    Bodies that Birth
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 5 editions
    Bodies that Birth puts birthing bodies at the cent…

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