Psychology and Gender Dysphoria: Feminist and Transgender Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780815359968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 168 str.

Jemma (Simon Fraser University) Tosh

Opis

Drawing on discursive psychology, this book traces the historical development of psychiatric constructions of ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ gender expression and contextualises the recent reconstruction of gender through the DSM-5 criteria for gender dysphoria.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Psychiatric Constructions of Women and Femininity  3. Psychiatric Constructions of Transgender Identities and Gender Nonconformity  4. Feminist Constructions of Gender Dysphoria and Transgender People  5. Transgender Constructions of Psychiatry and Feminism  6. Conclusions: A Trans feminist Antipsychology

O autorze

Jemma Tosh is a Research Manager at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Perverse Psychology: The Pathologization of Sexual Violence and Transgenderism (Routledge, 2015).