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Pink Herrings engages in a re-examination of six of Freud's cases
via Lacan's account of sexuation. Specifically, the book outlines a
theoretical framework in which sexuation is understood as a
'choice' made in response to the fact of the sexual non
relationship. In making this choice, unconscious fantasy allows for
the circulation of object a, which bear traces of jouissance.
Drawing upon Lacan's distinction between phallic and other
jouissance, Pink Herrings examines the four positions outlined in
Lacan's formula of sexuation, and maps these onto the six case
studies. In so doing, Pink Herrings not only brings new life and
insights to the cases, but also clears a path to what is referred
to as a 'clinic of sexuation'. Such a clinic would not replace
existing Lacanian psychoanalytic practice (with its focus on the
structures of neurosis, perversion and psychosis), but instead
provide additional avenues through which to explore the operations
of fantasy.
This book provides a comprehensive account of the educational
experiences of students, parents, and educators-transgender and
cisgender-in the context of current debates about the inclusion of
transgender people in schools. Drawing on critiques of cisgenderism
and emphasising the importance of a whole-of-school approach,
Transgender People and Education explores complex topics including
sexuality education for transgender young people, teaching about
gender diversity, the journeys of cisgender parents of transgender
children, the experiences of transgender parents and educators in
schools, and the role of cisgender administrators, educators, and
school counsellors and psychologists in creating inclusive school
cultures. Reporting on empirical analyses conducted by the authors,
the book makes a unique contribution to thinking about gender
diversity in schools and advocates for the broadening of
educational approaches beyond narrow gender binaries.
Queer Entanglements provides the first comprehensive account of the
intersections of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, and
non-binary people's lives with the lives of animals. Exploring
diverse topics such as domestic violence, grief following the loss
of an animal, veganism, cruelty-free makeup products, Pride events,
and community activism, the book offers a theoretical and empirical
basis for understanding the contexts that bring together human and
animal lives. By using real-world examples, it provides a lively
and engaging view of what it means to think about the connections
between animal and human lives, even when human experiences operate
at the expense of animal wellbeing. This critical, intersectional,
and interdisciplinary perspective on human-animal relations will be
of interest to scholars and students in human-animal studies,
psychology, sociology, social work, and cultural and gender
studies.
This book draws together research on posthumanism and studies of
kinship to elaborate an account of western human kinship practices.
Studies of kinship have increasingly sought to critique the
normative assumptions that often underpin how caring relationships
between humans are understood. The categorisation of 'human' and
'kinship' is brought into question and this book examines who might
be excluded through adherence to accepted categories and how a
critical lens may broaden our understanding of caring
relationships. Bringing together a diverse array of analytic foci
and theoretical lenses, Critical Kinship Studies opens up new
avenues for understanding what it means to be in relationships with
others, and in so doing challenges the human exceptionalism that
has often limited how we think about family, loss, love and
subjectivity.
Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book
explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when
negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social
contexts, and their agency in advocating for change. Chapters cover
a breadth of topics such as intimacy, sexual violence, reproductive
intentions, sexuality education, oncology, and pregnancy,
introducing readers to the latest research in the field as well as
key emerging concepts. The authors identify core principles for
trans reproductive and sexual justice, providing a broad overview
of what is currently succeeding and what can be built on going into
the future. Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health offers a
comprehensive exploration that is essential reading for academics
and students in psychology, sociology, gender studies, and related
areas, as well as clinicians and policy makers, offering direct
implications for professional audiences working in health and
social care.
Analysing diverse media representations of men who provide primary
care to their children, this book demonstrates how the practice of
fatherhood - and of masculinity - is changing, and the ways media
representations sensationalise and reinforce gender inequities in
regards to carework. This book examines disparities between
practices of carework amongst heterosexual couples and media
representations of men who provide primary care, whilst also
including a discussion of media accounts of primary caregiving
amongst gay couples. The book also provides a detailed analysis of
the relationship between care labor and public understandings of
masculinity. Assessing whether media accounts of fathers who
provide primary care undermine egalitarian approaches to the
division of labor amongst heterosexual couples, this book is a
vital intervention into public discourse about masculinity,
fathering and caregiving. This book will an important resource for
students, researchers, educators and practitioners as it brings
together a range of in-depth literatures, and empirical analyses to
provide a clear overview of contemporary fathering. It will be
essential reading in the fields of gender studies and masculinity
studies, together with sociology of families, cultural studies,
social psychology and social policy.
In Home and Away: Mothers and Babies in Institutional Spaces, the
authors examine how health design in a psychiatric mother-baby unit
can serve the needs of mothers and babies, their families, and the
staff. Arguing that while mothers in institutional care are away
from their own homes, they need not be away from their babies, the
authors show that any examination of built space must consider how
the mothers respond to the space and how the space responds to
their needs for privacy, rest, routine, and wellness. Home and Away
provides a comprehensive account of critical design for mental
health, focusing on how health facilities can intentionally promote
positive psychological outcomes through the design and use of
space.
Analysing diverse media representations of men who provide primary
care to their children, this book demonstrates how the practice of
fatherhood - and of masculinity - is changing, and the ways media
representations sensationalise and reinforce gender inequities in
regards to carework. This book examines disparities between
practices of carework amongst heterosexual couples and media
representations of men who provide primary care, whilst also
including a discussion of media accounts of primary caregiving
amongst gay couples. The book also provides a detailed analysis of
the relationship between care labor and public understandings of
masculinity. Assessing whether media accounts of fathers who
provide primary care undermine egalitarian approaches to the
division of labor amongst heterosexual couples, this book is a
vital intervention into public discourse about masculinity,
fathering and caregiving. This book will an important resource for
students, researchers, educators and practitioners as it brings
together a range of in-depth literatures, and empirical analyses to
provide a clear overview of contemporary fathering. It will be
essential reading in the fields of gender studies and masculinity
studies, together with sociology of families, cultural studies,
social psychology and social policy.
Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book
explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when
negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social
contexts, and their agency in advocating for change. Chapters cover
a breadth of topics such as intimacy, sexual violence, reproductive
intentions, sexuality education, oncology, and pregnancy,
introducing readers to the latest research in the field as well as
key emerging concepts. The authors identify core principles for
trans reproductive and sexual justice, providing a broad overview
of what is currently succeeding and what can be built on going into
the future. Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health offers a
comprehensive exploration that is essential reading for academics
and students in psychology, sociology, gender studies, and related
areas, as well as clinicians and policy makers, offering direct
implications for professional audiences working in health and
social care.
The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men's Communities engages in the
necessarily complex task of mapping out the operations of
racialized desire as it circulates among gay men. In exploring such
desire, the contributors to this collection consider the
intersections of privilege and marginalization in the context of
gay men's lives, and in so doing, argue that as much as experiences
of discrimination on the basis of sexuality are shared among many
gay men, experiences of discrimination within gay communities are
equally as common. Focusing specifically on racialization, the
contributors offer insight as to how hierarchies, inequalities, and
practices of exclusion serve to bolster the central position
accorded to certain groups of gay men at the expense of other
groups. Considering how racial desire operates within gay
communities allows the contributors to connect contemporary
struggles for inclusion and recognition with ongoing histories of
marginalization and exclusion. The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay
Men's Communities is an important intervention that disputes the
claim that gay communities are primarily organized around
acceptance and homogeneity and instead demonstrates the
considerable diversity and ongoing tensions that mark gay men's
relationships with one another.
Pink Herrings engages in a re-examination of six of Freud's cases
via Lacan's account of sexuation. Specifically, the book outlines a
theoretical framework in which sexuation is understood as a
'choice' made in response to the fact of the sexual non
relationship. In making this choice, unconscious fantasy allows for
the circulation of object a, which bear traces of jouissance.
Drawing upon Lacan's distinction between phallic and other
jouissance, Pink Herrings examines the four positions outlined in
Lacan's formula of sexuation, and maps these onto the six case
studies. In so doing, Pink Herrings not only brings new life and
insights to the cases, but also clears a path to what is referred
to as a 'clinic of sexuation'. Such a clinic would not replace
existing Lacanian psychoanalytic practice (with its focus on the
structures of neurosis, perversion and psychosis), but instead
provide additional avenues through which to explore the operations
of fantasy.
Written for an international audience, Priscilla, (White) Queen of
the Desert speaks to the current crisis in queer rights and
representation in the context of colonial nations. Focusing on
issues of identity, but exploring concerns as wide ranging as
morality, same-sex marriage, state sanction, families, and history,
this book will appeal to students, activists and academics alike.
Asking hard questions of queer rights movements, and the identity
politics that often inform them, the book calls for a sustained
engagement with the theorisation of queer racial identity and queer
race privilege.
Written for an international audience, Priscilla, (White) Queen of
the Desert speaks to the current crisis in queer rights and
representation in the context of colonial nations. Focusing on
issues of identity, but exploring concerns as wide ranging as
morality, same-sex marriage, state sanction, families, and history,
this book will appeal to students, activists and academics alike.
Asking hard questions of queer rights movements, and the identity
politics that often inform them, the book calls for a sustained
engagement with the theorisation of queer racial identity and queer
race privilege.
This book draws together research on posthumanism and studies of
kinship to elaborate an account of western human kinship practices.
Studies of kinship have increasingly sought to critique the
normative assumptions that often underpin how caring relationships
between humans are understood. The categorisation of 'human' and
'kinship' is brought into question and this book examines who might
be excluded through adherence to accepted categories and how a
critical lens may broaden our understanding of caring
relationships. Bringing together a diverse array of analytic foci
and theoretical lenses, Critical Kinship Studies opens up new
avenues for understanding what it means to be in relationships with
others, and in so doing challenges the human exceptionalism that
has often limited how we think about family, loss, love and
subjectivity.
This book provides a comprehensive account of the educational
experiences of students, parents, and educators-transgender and
cisgender-in the context of current debates about the inclusion of
transgender people in schools. Drawing on critiques of cisgenderism
and emphasising the importance of a whole-of-school approach,
Transgender People and Education explores complex topics including
sexuality education for transgender young people, teaching about
gender diversity, the journeys of cisgender parents of transgender
children, the experiences of transgender parents and educators in
schools, and the role of cisgender administrators, educators, and
school counsellors and psychologists in creating inclusive school
cultures. Reporting on empirical analyses conducted by the authors,
the book makes a unique contribution to thinking about gender
diversity in schools and advocates for the broadening of
educational approaches beyond narrow gender binaries.
The second edition of this award-winning textbook provides an
accessible and engaging introduction to the field of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer psychology.
Comprehensive in scope and international in outlook, it offers an
integrated overview of key topical areas, from history and context,
identities and fluidity, families and relationships, to health and
wellbeing. The second edition has been extensively revised to
address substantial developments and emerging areas, such as people
born with intersex variations, transgender and non-binary genders,
intersectionality, and gender-diverse children. It also includes
new pedagogical features to support learning and to facilitate
discussion and reflection, with feature boxes throughout that
explain important concepts, provide concise overviews of
cutting-edge research, and offer first-person narratives that bring
topics to life. This pioneering textbook is an essential resource
for undergraduate courses on sex, gender, and sexuality in
psychology and related disciplines, such as sociology, health
studies, social work, education, and counselling.
The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men's Communities engages in the
necessarily complex task of mapping out the operations of
racialized desire as it circulates among gay men. In exploring such
desire, the contributors to this collection consider the
intersections of privilege and marginalization in the context of
gay men's lives, and in so doing, argue that as much as experiences
of discrimination on the basis of sexuality are shared among many
gay men, experiences of discrimination within gay communities are
equally as common. Focusing specifically on racialization, the
contributors offer insight as to how hierarchies, inequalities, and
practices of exclusion serve to bolster the central position
accorded to certain groups of gay men at the expense of other
groups. Considering how racial desire operates within gay
communities allows the contributors to connect contemporary
struggles for inclusion and recognition with ongoing histories of
marginalization and exclusion. The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay
Men's Communities is an important intervention that disputes the
claim that gay communities are primarily organized around
acceptance and homogeneity and instead demonstrates the
considerable diversity and ongoing tensions that mark gay men's
relationships with one another.
Working with Transgender Young People and their Families advocates
a critical developmental approach aimed at countering the
cisgenderism that can be perceived in previous developmental
literature on gender. It clears a path to understanding gender
development for transgender young people by providing a detailed
account that spans early childhood through to late adolescence. In
doing so, it demonstrates how clinicians can work more effectively
with parents and other family members in order to affirm
transgender young people. By outlining a GENDER mnemonic created by
the author, the book provides worked through examples of case
materials that highlight the benefits of a critical developmental
approach. Offering unique insights and practical guidance, it
provides a cutting-edge resource for clinicians and researchers, as
well as for families and other professionals seeking to understand
and work affirmingly with transgender young people.
Diverse Pathways to Parenthood: From Narratives to Practice is a
timely contribution to the study of reproduction and parenthood.
Drawing on a wide breadth of projects, this book covers topics such
as first time parents, donor conception, pregnancy loss, surrogacy,
lesbian, gay and/or transgender parenting, fostering and adoption,
grandparenting, and human/animal kinship. By presenting individual
narratives focused on reproduction and parenthood, this book
successfully translates empirical research into practical, applied
outcomes that will be of use for all those working in the fields of
reproduction and parenthood. Including recommendations for
fertility specialists, educators, child protection agencies,
reproductive counselors, and policy makers, Diverse Pathways to
Parenthood: From Narratives to Practice is a vital new resource
that will help guide practice into the future. As a contribution to
the field of critical kinship studies, this book heralds new
directions for the study of kinship, by revisiting as well as
reimagining how we think about, research, and respond to a
diversity of kinship forms.
All too often heterosexual first-time parents are treated as the
unmarked norm within research on reproduction. First-Time Parenting
Journeys maps out what it means to be situated within the norm,
while providing a critical account of how social norms about
parenthood shape, regulate, and potentially delimit experiences of
new parenthood for heterosexual couples. Based on qualitative
longitudinal research, this book tells the story of journeys to
parenthood, highlighting the impact of gender norms, moral claims,
emotion work, and generativity. While drawing on Australian data,
the critical conceptual framework has broader applicability across
Western contexts in terms of understanding normative family
structures and parenting practices. By focusing on expectations
about, and the reality of, new parenthood, it explicates the ways
in which institutionalised norms about parenthood are internalised
and explores what this can tell us about the broader contours of
parenthood discourses.
The second edition of this award-winning textbook provides an
accessible and engaging introduction to the field of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer psychology.
Comprehensive in scope and international in outlook, it offers an
integrated overview of key topical areas, from history and context,
identities and fluidity, families and relationships, to health and
wellbeing. The second edition has been extensively revised to
address substantial developments and emerging areas, such as people
born with intersex variations, transgender and non-binary genders,
intersectionality, and gender-diverse children. It also includes
new pedagogical features to support learning and to facilitate
discussion and reflection, with feature boxes throughout that
explain important concepts, provide concise overviews of
cutting-edge research, and offer first-person narratives that bring
topics to life. This pioneering textbook is an essential resource
for undergraduate courses on sex, gender, and sexuality in
psychology and related disciplines, such as sociology, health
studies, social work, education, and counselling.
What About the Children! takes up the important task of examining
the role of hegemonic masculinities in propping up a normative
social order in which children are constructed as the property of
adults. By examining adult-child relations in the context of a wide
range of family forms and social contexts, the book provides some
hard answers to questions relating to what exactly are the best
interests of children, and how they should be determined. The book
responds by suggesting that there is a pressing need to recognise
the capacity of children to voice their own desires and needs, and
that in failing to recognise this all adults (and men in
particular) only serve to further perpetuate a possessive logic
that, at least in part, gives rise to the mistreatment or abuse of
children. Covering topics such as the experiences of foster
fathers, gay adoptive fathers and sperm donors, and exploring
phenomena such as books on raising boys and movies about gay
parents, the book offers important insights as to the operations of
hegemony in the lives of a broad range of men. Importantly, the
book moves beyond simply identifying the operations of hegemony in
relation to possessive investments in children, and goes on to
propose a `non-indifferent' approach to understanding adult-child
relations that at its heart examines the operations of power that
produce children as supposedly docile subjects (and only certain
adults as capable of caring for them). As a result, the book makes
a significant contribution to setting an alternative agenda for
child protection both within Australia and internationally by
asking the question `protection for whom?'.
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