This study is an analysis of the relationship between the social construction of gender and the most intimate feelings and thoughts of women. Using examples from everyday life, and from film and literature, It presents a psychology of women that integrates all aspects of experience. The book won the 1992 Critic's Choice Award by the American Educational Studies Association.

Therapists, counselors, other mental health professionals, attorneys, and Justices of the International Criminal Tribunal shed light on women's recent wartime experience and make sense of their coping strategies in the face of atrocities against them. In addition to providing a historical document, the collection demonstrates the application of fem

Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia sheds light upon women's wartime experiences and makes sense of their coping strategies in the face of the innumerable atrocities committed against them. This is the only book to present the experiences of therapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals along with attorneys and Justices of the International Criminal Tribunal in working from both psychological and legal perspectives with women in former Yugoslavia. The workers who relate their experiences come from both former Yugoslavia and other nations, representing countries...

Realize how you can charge what your services are worth and still care about your clients

For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy examines the rarely talked about topic of payment in therapy, taking a symbolic and psychological look at the meaning of fees to both the psychologist and client. This intelligent book offers firsthand advice and information concerning how gender can make a difference in your feelings about fees and how the managed care environment affects women clients. For Love or Money will help you handle your concerns about fees as it discusses payment for...

Support and empower women who are coping with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease

Being diagnosed with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia is a traumatic event that takes place at a time when the patient is already feeling physically (and often emotionally) drained. Minding the Body combines feminist and social constructionist approaches to offer an intimate look into the ways a therapist can help clients cope with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease.

Minding the Body offers an alternative to the reductive view of the mind-body connection...

Support and empower women who are coping with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease Being diagnosed with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia is a traumatic event that takes place at a time when the patient is already feeling physically (and often emotionally) drained. Minding the Body combines feminist and social constructionist approaches to offer an intimate look into the ways a therapist can help clients cope with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease. Minding the Body offers an alternative to the reductive view of the mind-body connection and also examines...

Shape a better future with the insights of the third wave

Is feminism still necessary? How can older feminists and younger ones find a common ground to discuss issues that affect them both? What does it mean to be a third-wave feminist? The Next Generation explores these and other issues that deeply concern feminist therapists of all ages.

This powerful book examines the psychological and cultural context of the third wave of feminism. The young feminists whose voices are heard in The Next Generation grew up in a very different world than the feminists who came of age in...

Analyzes the factors that contribute to lesbian domestic violence, and suggests treatments tailored to this community. The seven papers discuss the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on lesbian relationships, and the application of the fundamental interpersonal relations orientation-behavior test

Help ease the secret suffering of lesbians in abusive relationships Why is woman-on-woman violence so often ignored or discounted? Intimate Betrayal: Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships uncovers the hidden problem of lesbians who hurt the women they love. This long-needed book brings together theory, practice, and research to suggest new and fruitful ways to understand, prevent, and treat this common problem. Intimate Betrayal provides new empirical research into the psychological and sociocultural causes of abuse. As several of the chapter authors demonstrate, neither traditional...

Take a new look at women s sexuality

This fascinating book looks at the wide-ranging therapeutic, social, and political implications of the new paradigm of women s sexuality. International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, A New View of Women s Sexual Problems examines the theoretical and practical effects of the landmark document produced by the Working Group on a New View of Women s Sexuality. The book brings together gender theory, psychology, social science, and medicine in a powerful cultural critique of the reigning medical approach to women s sexual health....