Bøger i Women and Psychology serien

This book explores research that attempts to deepen theorizing and elaborate upon the practical implications of women¿s efforts to negotiate and resist the dominant discourse, and to create counterstories for their lives.

The book focuses not just on menstruation, but on the whole 'menstrual' cycle and its relationship to women's lives. Anne Walker's cross-cultural analysis exposes the limitations of the normal textbook descriptions.

Drawing on ideas from sociology, politics, anthropology and law as well as psychology, this book shows how abortion is linked to sexual behaviour and motherhood in the complex web of gender and power relations.

Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make sense of such concepts as heterosexuality, orgasm, sexual dysfunction and femininity and masculinity.

Linda Gannon challenges traditional assumptions that aging in women is defined by the menopause. She argues that crucial determinants of well-being in aging women are physical competence, social skills and economic dependence.

Provides an in-depth critical examination of mainstream approaches to understanding and treating depression from a feminist perspective.

Paula Nicolson provides a critique of traditional medical and social science explanations of post-natal depression; she argues that far from it being an abnormal condition it is a healthy response to a series of losses.

In this psychological study of women in heterosexual relationships, the author examines the social context of their experiences and emotional struggles. The text places case study material in the context of the power balance between women and men.

Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse.

Drawing its subject matter from both literature and interviews, this book presents a feminist standpoint on eating disorders.