Title:	The psychology of gender and sexuality
Authors:	Stainton Rogers, Wendy
Keywords:	Sex differences (Psychology)
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	Open University Press
Description:	In terms of psychology textbooks, 'gender' and 'sexuality' are comparatively new kinds of language. Their use in psychology today reflects recent changes in the way that psychology is taught, studied, researched and practised. These changes include a growing sensitivity to the politics of the discipline, which has been prompted by inputs from critical and feminism-informed scholars. Many mainstream psychologists are strongly resistant to the idea that psychology has any engagement with politics. Psychology is generally assumed to be a science and, as such, outside of politics. But as you will see as you progress through this book, there are a number of movements both within and outwith psychology that have challenged this claim, notably feminism, social constructionism and postmodernism. Indeed, all of these movements pose an even more extensive challenge to science itself. They argue that science is profoundly political, not in a party politics sense, but in terms of the politics of power
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/46509
ISBN:	0-335-20225-X
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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