The psychology of gender and sexuality

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Stainton Rogers, Wendy	-
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-21T11:48:14Z	-
dc.date.available	2019-02-21T11:48:14Z	-
dc.date.issued	2001	-
dc.identifier.isbn	0-335-20225-X	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/46509	-
dc.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	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Open University Press	en_US
dc.subject	Sex differences (Psychology)	en_US
dc.title	The psychology of gender and sexuality	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
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