Looks at the relationship between gender and psychology. This work focuses on gendered issues relating to knowledge production, research, authorship and publishing in psychology. It reflects on the ways in which psychology has set itself up as an authority on issues of gender and sexuality - to the detriment of women and other sexual minorities.

(Re)production of knowledge in psychology: Gendered research; narratives of gender and identity constructs; the possibility of a reflexive gaze - the relevance of feminist debates on reflexivity, representation and situated knowledges for psychology; psychoanalysis, sexual difference and the castration problematic; lacan, the meaning of the phallus, and the 'sexed' subject; women as a minority group. De/re-constructing psychological knowledge about gender: Sexualities; early reproduction and gendered assumptions about adolescence and adolescent (hetero)sexuality; a gendered analysis of woman abuse; the prevailing paradigm of 'family' in the 'psy' professions; men and masculinities - psychology and politics; motherhood; 'going places' - black women negotiating race and gender in post-apartheid south africa. Gendered practice and profession; pathological wombs and raging hormones: psychology, reproduction and the female body; western psychiatry and gender identity disorder (gid): a critical perspective; becoming a psychologist - professionalism, feminism, activism.

Unique with its predominately South African context, this examination draws on local experiences and studies to present a critical gender analysis of the discipline and practice of psychology in marginalized parts of the world. A critical reflection on how psychology frequently reinforces oppressive practices with respect to gender, sex, and sexuality as well as a look to professional areas of psychology and their application in terms of gender differences are included. Students of psychology and gender studies are offered a wealth of international critical theory complimented by material from communities not usually represented in psychology textbooks.