This book reviews the significance of discourse analysis for a new generation of psychologists, and shows how discursive approaches question underlying assumptions commonly made about the nature of ‘thinking’ and ‘behaviour’ in the discipline.
Drawing on ideas from sociology, politics, anthropology and law as well as psychology, this book shows how abortion is linked to sexual behaviour and ..
In a series of interviews on the distribution of chores related to the home and family, Caroline Dryden explores the reality of gender roles in hetero..
Just Sex? combines an overview of existing literature with an analysis of recent research to examine the psychological and cultural implications of da..
This book offers a re-evaluation of mainstream and feminist approaches to understanding the theories and research issues relating to women and child s..
This book investigates the nature of Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis by comparing the status and treatment of women in two different psychoan..
This book outlines a critical view of "teenage pregnancy" and abortion, arguing that the negative view of these issues relies on a particular understa..
In this important contribution to the study of drugs and addiction Illana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drugs, drug treatment, a..
The concept of psychologisation has become crucial to current debates in critical psychology. De Vos combines these debates with insights from the fie..
In the late 1960s a ‘crisis’ erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the ‘old paradigm’, laboratory-experiment..