For decades, the field of gender, sex, and sexualities has been a focal point of increasing interest. This inquiry has been ignited by successive waves of dramatic social change, chief among them: the re-emergence of feminist movements in the U.S. and Europe in the late 1960s; the sustained (and
increasingly successful) bids for legal, social, and religious acceptance of non-heterosexual sexualities in many parts of the world; and the burgeoning number of people (whether cisgendered, gender-variant, trans, or questioning) whose individual and collective experiences of gender and sexuality
warrant deeper understanding and further progress toward a more fuller realization of human potential and civil rights.
In psychology, the intellectual project of understanding gender, sex, and sexualities encompasses a variety of subfields spanning neuroscience and developmental,
cognitive, social, and cultural psychology, as well as critical theory. As such, these approaches have inspired new and different psychological questions, as well as increased interest in previously unfamiliar topics of investigation.
Edited by Nancy K. Dess, Jeanne Marecek, and Leslie
C. Bell, Gender, Sex, and Sexualties offers both students and scholars the tools they need to consider and approach such questions as: how do children come to embrace (or repudiate) gendered activities and identities; how do people experience intimacy, desire, and sexual arousal; and what strategies
can psychologists use to de-center their own points of view and effectively contribute to a decolonial psychology?
As a result, this volume will open new avenues of inquiry as well as cross-disciplinary conversations for readers everywhere.
Introduction
PART I Emerging Frameworks: Beyond Binaries
1. Setting the Stage: Gender, Sex, and Sexualities in Psychology, Eva Magnusson and Jeanne Marecek
2. Intersectionality as a Framework for Theory and Research in Feminist Psychology, Leah R. Warner and Stephanie A.
Shields
3. Non-Binary Gender Identities, Peter Hegarty, Y. Gavriel Ansara, and Meg-John Barker
4. On Being and Becoming Female and Male: A Sex-Neutral Evolutionary Perspective, Patricia Adair Gowaty
PART II Contemporary Avenues of Inquiry
5. Gender and Sex(ualities): A Cultural
Psychology Approach, Tugçe Kurtis and Glenn Adams
6. Discursive Psychological Approaches to the (Un)making of Sex/Gender, Ngaire Donaghue
7. Gendered Power: Insights from Power Basis Theory, I-Ching Lee and Felicia Pratto
8. Gender Stereotypes and Stereotyping: A Cognitive Perspective on
Gender Bias, Monica Biernat and Amanda Sesko
9. Psychoanalytic Theories of Gender, Leslie C. Bell
10. Gender, Traits, Peer Relations, and Identity: During Development: Towards an Integrative Theoretical Developmental Model, Campbell Leaper
11. The Integrative Psychobiology of Early
Gender Development, Melissa Hines
12. Contemporary Theory in the Study of Intimacy, Desire, and Sexuality, Lisa Diamond
13. Integrating Evolutionary Affective Neuroscience and Feminism in Gender Research, Leslie L. Heywood and Justin R. Garcia
14. Categories, Gender, and Development: A
Feminist Perspective, Ellin Scholnick and Patricia Miller
About the Contributors
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Nancy K. Dess is Professor of Psychology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Her work on the relationship between emotion and eating, peace, and research ethics has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She is a member of the American Psychological Association's
Board of Scientific Affairs, has served as APA's Senior Scientist, and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.
Jeanne Marecek is William R. Kenan Professor of Psychology Emerita at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
She is a critical feminist psychologist and has worked extensively in Sri Lanka and in the Nordic countries. She is co-author of Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Gender (Yale University, 1990); Gender and Culture in Psychology: Theories and Practices (Cambridge, 2012); and
Doing Interview-based Qualitative Research (Cambridge, 2015). She is co-editor of Feminism & Psychology.
Leslie C. Bell is a psychotherapist and sociologist in private practice in Berkeley, California. Her research focuses on young women's experiences of sexuality and relationships, and
integrates psychoanalytic and sociological theories and methods. Her work has appeared in various academic and popular publications and has been frequently featured in the news media. She is the author of Hard to Get: Twentysomething Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom (University of California
Press, 2013).
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