Psychology
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 | Women, Sex and Pornography | What do women think of pornography? Pornography is a topic that produces feverish responses, but women's reactions until now have been left unexamined. Even the responses of the women's movement have been contradictory. In this major new work, Beatrice Faust discusses the psychology of sexual differences and how they relate to differences in the sexual and erotic styles of men and women and the influence of culture. In a frank and polemical analysis, Beatrice Faust explores the enormous social implications of these sexual differences, from novels, films and fashion to social behaviour patterns - and rape. She argues that pornography is neither pro- nor anti-woman. But it certainly presents a misleading view of women's sexuality, and the solution is not censorship but sex education through bona fide erotica and the recognition of differences between male and female sexuality. | ||
| Beatrice Faust | ||||
| 1982 | ||||
| Culture, Pornography, Psychology, Sex | ||||
| Book#: PSY001 | ||||
 | Abnormal: How Britain Became Body Dysphoric and the Key to a Cure | Abnormal is a scholarly yet highly accessible book with a core message about the importance of self-acceptance and personal responsibility in a world where we have failed to understand the limitations of science and what a ‘normal’ body means. The Introduction sets out the case for claiming that our society has become deeply body dysphoric: the steep rise over the noughties in obesity and eating disorders, cosmetic surgery and other procedures; our widespread dissatisfaction with our bodies and our resulting unhappiness; and the increasing lack of reality in the images of the body that surround us. Section I explores the roots of our body dysphoria, from ancient cultures and religions via the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution and Darwin through the 20th century to the noughties. Section II looks at how we have treated people with bodies that we have defined as being ‘abnormal’ in recent times, and how this will impact negatively on all of us at some point in our live... | ||
| Ju Gosling | ||||
| 2011 | ||||
| Body Image, History, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: PSY002 | ||||
 | Homosexual Desire | Originally published in 1972 in France, Guy Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire has become a classic in gay theory. Translated into English for the first time in 1978. Integrating psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, this book describes the social and psychic dynamics of what has come to be called homophobia and on how the "homosexual" as social being has come to be constituted in capitalist society. Significant as one of the earliest products of the international gay liberation movement, Hocquenghem's work was influenced by the extraordinary energies unleashed by the political upheavals of both the Paris "May Days" of 1968 and the gay and lesbian political rebellions that occurred in cities around the world in the wake of New York's Stonewall riots of June 1969. Drawing on the theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and on the shattering effects of innumerable gay "comings-out," Hocquenghem critiqued the influential models of the psyche and sexual desire derived from Lacan a... | ||
| Guy Hocquenghem | ||||
| 1978 | ||||
| Bisexual, Gay, Homophobia, Lesbian, Psychology, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: PSY003 | ||||
 | Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development | Richard Isay was the first person to challenge the homophobia of the psychoanalytic community and prove, through his own story and those of his patients, that homosexuality is an innate characteristic rather than a learned pathology. The groundbreaking Being Homosexual carries the reader through the main developmental stages in the gay male's life cycle from the initial awareness of same-sex impulses to coming out, forming friendships with other gay men, and a mature integration of one's sexual identity. An invaluable resource for gay men, Being Homosexual is a compassionate and powerful work. | ||
| Richard A. Isay | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| Gay, Homophobia, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: PSY004 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 2 / 4 | |||
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 | Sexual Behavior in the Human Male | When published in 1948 this volume encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a scientific approach to the understanding of human sexual behavior. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his fellow researchers sought to accumulate an objective body of facts regarding sex. They employed first hand interviews to gather this data. This volume is based upon histories of approximately 5,300 males which were collected during a fifteen year period. This text describes the methodology, sampling, coding, interviewing, statistical analyses, and then examines factors and sources of sexual outlet. | ||
| Clyde E. Martin, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Alfred C. Kinsey | ||||
| 1948 | ||||
| Gay, Gender, History, Psychology, Religion, Sex, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: PSY005 | ||||
 | Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology | Women today are being instructed on how they can raise their self-esteem, love their inner child, survive their toxic families, overcome codependency, and experience a revolution from within. By holding up the ideal of a pure and happy inner core, psychotherapists refuse to acknowledge that a certain degree of unhappiness or dissatisfaction is a routine part of life and not necessarily a cause for therapy. Lesbians specifically are now guided to define themselves according to their frailties, inadequacies, and insecurities. An incisive critique of contemporary feminist psychology and therapy, Changing our Minds argues not just that the current practice of psychology is flawed, but that the whole idea of psychology runs counter to many tenets of lesbian feminist politics. Recognizing that many lesbians do feel unhappy and experience a range of problems that detract from their well-being, Changing Our Minds makes positive, prescriptive suggestions for non-psychological ways of understan... | ||
| Rachel Perkins, Celia Kitzinger | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| Feminism, Lesbian, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: PSY006 | ||||
 | Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation 1st Edition | What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain. LeVay helped create this field in 1991 with a much-publicized study in Science, where he reported on a difference in the brain structure between gay and straight men. Since then, an entire scientific discipline has sprung up around the quest for a biological explanation of sexual orientation. In this book, LeVay provides a clear explanation of where the science stands today, taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of laboratories that specialize in genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, and family demographics. He describes, for instance, how researchers have manipulated the sex hormone levels of animals during development, causing them ... | ||
| Simon LeVay | ||||
| 2011 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Psychology, Sexuality, Straight | ||||
| Book#: PSY007 | ||||
 | One in Twenty: A Study of Homosexuality in Men and Women | In this book, Magee examines the nature of homosexuality, from what it is and what causes it, to the different factors affecting the lives of gay men and lesbians. | ||
| Bryan Magee | ||||
| 1969 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Psychology, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: PSY008 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 3 / 4 | |||
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 | The Homosexual Dialectic | Is gay really good? Or is homosexuality a pathological condition, as many Freudian psychologists claim? The issue is hotly debated in modern society, and in The Homosexual Dialectic McCaffrey presents a broad cross-section of these views. Beginning with excerpts from the pioneer Kinsey report, which revealed the extent of male homosexuality in America, the book investigates many moral, legal, and social problems homosexuals face. McCaffrey presents the "straight" perspective on these problems with articles by such psychologists and social scientists as Irving Bieber, Martin Hoffman, Laud Humphrey and Thomas Szasz. Sympathisers and leaders of the burgeoning Gay Lib movement, including Pauld Goodman, Carl Wittman, Franklin Kameny (who coined the phrase "Gay is Good"), and even Huey Newton (who invites oppressed homosexuals to join the revolution), interpret the new assertiveness now being manifested by the homosexual community. As this book documents, homosexual men and women are dem... | ||
| Joseph Anthony McCaffrey | ||||
| 1972 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: PSY009 | ||||
 | Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence | "...when we turn the lens of vision and consider the degree to which, and the methods whereby, heterosexual "preference" had actually been imposed on women, not only can we understand differently the meaning of individual lives and work, but we can begin to recognize a central fact of women's struggle against powerlessness, not just in male-defined "concrete revolutionary situations" but in all the situations male ideologies have not perceived as revolutionary..." | ||
| Adrienne Rich | ||||
| 1981 | ||||
| Feminism, Lesbian, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: PSY010 | ||||
 | Sadomasochism: Painful Perversion or Pleasurable Play? | A critical study of contemporary and historical sado-masochism which considers how well traditional theories reflect the real activities of self-styled sado-masochists and whether the trend toward criminalizaton of sado-masochism can be justified. Set against a background of the controversial Operation Spanner which resulted in the jailing of two consenting sadomasochists for up to 4 years, this book is a timely contribution to the debates around the morality and legality of sado-masochism. It provides an extensive review of the socio-historical aspects of sadomasochism, exposes the similarities between the evangelical, the separatist feminist, and the traditional psychological criticism of SM, and studies SM both from the perspective of those who are sado-masochists as well as those "moral guardians" attempting to label SM activities as harmful and dangerous. | ||
| Bill Thompson | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| Psychology, Sadomasochism | ||||
| Book#: PSY011 | ||||
 | Sexual Deviation | This book is a brief account of the common types of sexual behaviour which are generally considered perverse or deviant, together with explanations of their origins. Sado-masochism, fetishism, and other types of sexual deviation are discussed. | ||
| Anthony Storr | ||||
| 1964 | ||||
| Psychology, Sadomasochism, Sex, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: PSY012 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 4 / 4 | |||
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 | Society and the Healthy Homosexual | This is a revolutionary and passionate book, addressed to both homosexuals and heterosexuals. In it Dr. Weinberg analyzes the harmful prejudice against homosexuals, a prejudice which he calls homophobia. He explains how this attitude develops and discusses how to overcome it. Moreover, he gives unshakeable evidence, by surveying their own studies, that the great majority of psychologists, psychiatrists and writers on homosexuality themselves hold an irrational bias against homosexuals - and that they perpetuate the already prevalent homophobia. This book should be read not only by homosexuals who wish to overcome their unnecessary fear, guilt and regret, but also by teachers and parents of homosexuals, and in fact by anyone who prides himself on his humanity. | ||
| George Weinberg | ||||
| 1975 | ||||
| Gay, Health, Homophobia, Lesbian, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: PSY013 | ||||
 | The Stonewall Experiment | Presents a "psychohistory" of the gay male community, from Walt Whitman to the AIDS crisis. This study examines the self-images, motivations, behaviours and belief systems that have shaped the gay community. Examples range from street poetry and advertising, to political pamphlets and Hollywood. | ||
| Ian Young | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Film/Cinema, Gay, History, Lesbian, Literary Criticism, Politics, Psychology | ||||
| Book#: PSY014 | ||||
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