| Description |
xii, 254 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: towards a material-discursive analysis of madness, sexuality and reproduction / Jane M. Ussher -- 2. Women's bodies, women's lives and depression: towards a reconciliation of material and discursive accounts / Janet M. Stoppard -- 3. Mental health, critical realism and lay knowledge / David Pilgrim and Anne Rogers -- 4. AIDS panic / Corinne Squire -- 5. Screaming under the bridge: masculinity, rationality and psychotherapy / Stephen Frosh -- 6. Adolescent bodies: boy crazy memories and dreams / Janet Sayers -- 7. The discursive construction and regulation of dissident sexualities: the case of SM / Gary W. Taylor -- 8. Framing the sexual 'Other': the regulation of lesbian and gay sexuality / Jane M. Ussher -- 9. Intimacy and love in late modern conditions: implications for unsafe sexual practices / Helene Joffe -- 10. Reading the bleeding body: discourses of premenstrual syndrome / Catherine Swann |
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11. Menopause: bodily changes and multiple meanings / Myra S. Hunter and Irene O'Dea -- 12. Anorexic bodies and the discursive production of feminine excess / Helen Malson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Discursive psychology.
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Feminist theory.
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Human body -- Psychological aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human reproduction -- Social aspects.
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Materialism.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects.
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Mind and body.
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Sex (Psychology)
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Women -- Physiology.
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Women -- Psychology.
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Feminist theory
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| Author |
Ussher, Jane M., 1961-
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
97015836 |
| ISBN |
0203277325 |
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0415153638 (hb) |
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0415153646 (pb) |
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