Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jane ussher

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  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FEMALE BODY
    JANE M. USSHER
    First published in 1989, The Psychology of the Female Body examines the role of the female body in women’s identity and experience. She discusses how key events such as menarche, menstruation, pregnancy, and the menopause affect women’s lives, and looks at the ways in which the female body and reproduction have been used to confine and control women. She puts forward psychologi...

    $860.00

  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF WOMEN'S SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
    JANE M. USSHER
    The Routledge International Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women’s sexual and reproductive health. The handbook adopts a life-cycle approach to examine key milestones and events in women’s sexual and reproductive health. Contributors drawn from a range of discipline...

    $1,260.00

  • THE MADNESS OF WOMEN
    JANE M. USSHER / JANE USSHER
    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 understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s d...

    $1,460.00

  • GENDER ISSUES IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
    JANE M. USSHER
    Clinical psychology has traditionally ignored gender issues. The result has been to the detriment of women both as service users and practitioners. The contributors to this book show how this has happened and explore the effects both on clients and clinicians. Focusing on different aspects of clinical psychology's organisation and practice, including child sexual abuse, family ...

    $1,200.00

  • MANAGING THE MONSTROUS FEMININE
    JANE M. USSHER
    Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, dang...

    $1,160.00

  • BODY TALK
    JANE USSHER
    Psychology has traditionally examined human experience from a realist perspective, focusing on observable 'facts'. This is especially so in areas of psychology which focus on the body, such as sexuality, madness or reproduction. In contrast, many sociologists, anthropologists and feminists have focused exclusively on the cultural and communicative aspects of 'the body' treating...

    $1,160.00