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Performing Sex
(November 2011)
The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives
Breanne Fahs - Author
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FINALIST – 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women’s Issues Category
SILVER MEDALIST - 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues category
A candid and provocative critique of women’s sexual liberation in America.
Although conventional wisdom holds that women in the United States today are more sexually liberated than ever before, a number of startlin...(Read More) |
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Body Shots
(April 2011)
Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders
Emily Fox-Kales - Author
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Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the “eating disordered culture” represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.
How do movie star bodies and celebrity culture influence the way real girls and wome...(Read More) |
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Embodied Shame
(August 2009)
Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women's Writings
J. Brooks Bouson - Author
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Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.
How does physical, emotional, and sexual abuse shape women’s perceptions of their bodies and identities? How are women’s psyches affected by the sexual, racial, and cultural denigration that occurs when women’s bodies are represented as defective, spoiled, damaged, or dirtied? Embodied Shame skillfully explores these qu...(Read More) |
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Sexual Harassment, Work, and Education
(July 1998)
A Resource Manual for Prevention, Second Edition
Michele A. Paludi - Author
Richard B. Barickman - Author
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Supplies new information on the application of sexual harassment laws in schools, colleges/universities, and the workplace.
Sexual Harassment, Work, and Education brings new and important research to bear on consensual relationships on college campuses, provides new resources for dealing with sexual harassment in elementary and secondary schools, and outlines individualized programs for workplace training. Responding to feedback from rea...(Read More) |
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Missing Children
(March 1996)
A Psychological Approach to Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Stranger and Non-Stranger Abduction of Children
James N. Tedisco - Author
Michele A. Paludi - Author
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Focuses on variables that assist in confronting and preventing child abductions, including teacher training, public education and awareness, psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of abducted children as well as the children themselves.
"Even though parents believe they are capable of keeping their children safe, few are aware of the plethora of ways child abductors can achieve their goals. The public needs to be aware t...(Read More) |
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Visionary Worlds
(March 1996)
The Making and Unmaking of Reality
Lee Irwin - Author
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Considers the role and significance of imagination and the myth-making processes that engage human beings in constructing a viable, living world of meaningful relations, beliefs and social interactions.
Visionary Worlds examines the role and significance of imagination and the myth-making processes that engage human beings in constructing a viable, living world of meaningful relations, beliefs, and social interactions. In this pro...(Read More) |
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When Women Kill
(February 1996)
Coramae Richey Mann - Author
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A fascinating profile of female homicide offenders emerges from this analysis of the characteristics of women murderers in six cities in the United States, including the circumstances of the murders, the role of the victims, the role of the perpetrators, and their fates in court.
The volume explores every aspect of females who murdered--from arrest through sentencing--and provides descriptions of ecological and other circumstances of the...(Read More) |
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Exploring/Teaching the Psychology of Women
(January 1996)
A Manual of Resources, Second Edition
Michele A. Paludi - Author
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Focuses on how to teach the psychology of women course with emphasis on three main themes: critical thinking skills, integration of knowledge, and multiculturalism.
"A book such as Paludi's provides a ready-made compilation of resources, including selected references, films, organizations, course outlines, and class exercises," noted Contemporary Psychology in their review of the book's first edition. Building on that foundation...(Read More) |
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Women Struggling For a New Life
(January 1996)
The Role of Religion in the Cultural Passage From Korea to America
Ai Ra Kim - Author
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What I like about this book is that it takes history seriously and makes an argument for how the socialization/enculturation of Korean women is influenced by the period of the Yi Dynasty. Kim weaves theory and empirical data together in a way that I found quite helpful. Moreover, she deals with class issues that are often overlooked in works such as these. The book is so well organized that I could hardly put it down once I started to read. Her conc...(Read More) |
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Variations on a Theme
(July 1995)
Diversity and the Psychology of Women
Joan C. Chrisler - Editor
Alyce Huston Hemstreet - Editor
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This is the first book to take a multicultural perspective on the psychology of women, including the issues of ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, and physical abilities.
This book addresses the continuing call to incorporate diversity issues into the scholarship on the psychology of women. Each chapter takes an inclusive look at one aspect of women's lives and shows how the available research and theory re...(Read More) |
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