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Perverse Psychology : The Pathologization Of Sexual Violenceand Transgenderism
Paperback Edition: 1
Perverse Psychology examines psychiatric constructions of sexual violence and transgenderism from the 19th century until the latest DSM-5 diagnoses. It uses discourse analysis to interrogate the discursive boundaries between 'normal' and 'abnormal' rape, as well as the pathologization of gender and sexual diversity. The book illuminates for the first time the parallels between psychiatrys construction of gender diversity and sexual violence, and leads us to question whether it is violence that the profession finds so intriguing, or the gender nonconformity it represents.
Perverse Psychology is ideal reading for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of critical psychology, discourse analysis, feminism, transgenderism, LGBT psychology, and the history of psychiatry.
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Pages : 146
Publisher : Routledge
Publication date : 2014-06-22
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies: Trans And Gender-variant