Gender, Sex, and Sexualities: Psychological Perspectives
Nancy Dess, Jeanne Marecek, and Leslie Bell
Abstract
This volume is a compendium of conceptual frameworks and associated research approaches used for inquiry into gender, sex, and sexualities. It is suitable for use as an advanced textbook. Part I (Emerging Frameworks: Beyond Binaries) includes Magnusson and Marecek on meanings of sex and gender; Warner and Shields on intersectionality theory; Hegarty, Ansara, and Barker on nonbinary gender identities; and Gowaty on flexibility as a core evolutionary principle. Part II (Contemporary Avenues of Inquiry) includes Kurtiş and Adams on cultural psychology; Donaghue on discursive psychology; Lee and P ... More
This volume is a compendium of conceptual frameworks and associated research approaches used for inquiry into gender, sex, and sexualities. It is suitable for use as an advanced textbook. Part I (Emerging Frameworks: Beyond Binaries) includes Magnusson and Marecek on meanings of sex and gender; Warner and Shields on intersectionality theory; Hegarty, Ansara, and Barker on nonbinary gender identities; and Gowaty on flexibility as a core evolutionary principle. Part II (Contemporary Avenues of Inquiry) includes Kurtiş and Adams on cultural psychology; Donaghue on discursive psychology; Lee and Pratto on gendered power; Biernat and Sesko on gender stereotypes and stereotyping; Leaper on the development of children’s identities, traits, and peer relations; Bell on psychoanalytic theories; Hines on the psychobiology of early gender development; Diamond on a dynamical systems approach to intimacy and desire; Heywood and Garcia on the integration of evolutionary theory, neuroscience, and feminist theory; and Scholnick and Miller on concepts and categories in feminist developmental psychology.
Keywords:
Gender,
sexuality,
intersectionality,
culture,
development,
evolution,
neuroscience,
discursive psychology,
feminism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190658540 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190658540.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Nancy Dess, editor
Professor, Department of Psychology, Occidental College
Jeanne Marecek, editor
William Rand Kenan Professor of Psychology Emerita and Senior Research Professor, Swarthmore College
Leslie Bell, editor
sociologist and psychotherapist, private practice
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