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Informationen zum Autor Eva Magnusson is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University of Umeå, Sweden. She is also affiliated with, and teaches at, the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Umeå (and is a past chair of the Centre). Jeanne Marecek is William R. Kenan Professor Emerita of Psychology at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA, where she also has been a member of the Program on Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Asian Studies Program. Klappentext Introduction to psychology of gender that anchors psychological life and personal meaning in social interchanges, language, societal structures and culture. Zusammenfassung Gender and Culture in Psychology introduces readers to new approaches to the psychological study of gender that bring together feminist psychology! socio-cultural psychology! discursive psychology and critical psychology. It describes interpretative research methods and also addresses current controversies regarding acquaintance rape! women's eating problems! and gender and mental health. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Gender and culture in psychology: a prologue; 2. Categories and social categorization; 3. Laying the foundation; 4. Theories of gender in psychology: an overview; 5. A turn to interpretation; 6. Doing interpretative psychological research; 7. Discursive approaches to studying gender and culture; 8. Gender and culture in children's identity development; 9. Identity and inequality in heterosexual couples; 10. Coercion, violence and consent in heterosexual encounters; 11. Women's eating problems and the cultural meanings of body size; 12. Psychological suffering in social and cultural contexts; 13. Feminism and gender in psychotherapy; 14. Comparing women and men: a retrospective on sex difference research; 15. Psychology's place in society and society's place in psychology.
