Psychology and Sexual Orientation: Coming to Terms

ISBN-13: 9780415915137 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 284 str.

Janis Bohan

Opis

Psychology and Sexual Orientation strives to "come to terms" with lesbian, gay and bisexual life and with the controversial scientific and sociocultural theories and arguments on the origin and meaning of homosexuality and queer life in the US. Janis M. Bohan disrupts conventional psychological perspectives on queer life and identity and animates the ongoing debate between essentialism and constructionism. Bohan discusses the meaning of sexual orientation; lesbian, gay and bisexual identity development and stigma management; diversity in experiences; partners and parenting; and lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.

Recenzje

"A welcome addition to the bookshelves of those studying the effect of sexual orientation on our lives...covers a wealth of theoretical and empirical material in highly accessible style and language." -- Psychology of Women Quarterly

Spis treści

An Interdisciplinary View of Memory, A New Approach to Viewing Memory, Zones of Convergence Between Different Sciences, Why Other Animals Lack Autobiographical Memory, Development of Autobiographical Memory and the Brain, Interdependent Development of Memory and Other Cognitive and Emotional Functions, Autobiographical Memory: A Lifelong Developmental Task, Development of Learning and Memory: The Prenatal Period and the First Months of Life, The First Quantum Leap in Memory Development: The Nine Months' Revolution, The Second Quantum Leap in Memory Development: Language. Exploring Autobiographical Memory in Young Children, Autobiographical Memory: A Continuity in Transformation, The Age at Which Memory Occurs: Results of an Interdisciplinary Research Project on Remembering and Memory, A Formative Theory of Memory Development, Memory at Advanced Ages, Autobiographical Memory: A Biocultural Relay Between the Individual and the Environment

O autorze

Janis Bohan is Professor of Psychology at Metropolitan State College, Denver. She is the editor of Seldom Seen, Rarely Heard: Women's Place in Psychology.