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Engendering Emotions
A. Petersen
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Description for Engendering Emotions
Paperback. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JHBK; JMQ; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Engendering Emotions examines the production and promotion of the idea of sex/gender difference in emotional experience and expression in the contemporary West. Focusing on the psychology of emotions and on the spheres of aggression and war, and love, intimacy and sex, it explores how the idea of emotional difference serves to define and govern relations between men and women. The book draws on diverse theoretical work and recent empirical data to chart new territory in the study of sex/gender differences.
Engendering Emotions examines the production and promotion of the idea of sex/gender difference in emotional experience and expression in the contemporary West. Focusing on the psychology of emotions and on the spheres of aggression and war, and love, intimacy and sex, it explores how the idea of emotional difference serves to define and govern relations between men and women. The book draws on diverse theoretical work and recent empirical data to chart new territory in the study of sex/gender differences.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
Number of Pages
185
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349432660
SKU
V9781349432660
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99-15
About A. Petersen
ALAN PETERSEN is Professor of Sociology of Health and Illness, University of Plymouth, UK. He has researched and written extensively on various aspects of biomedicine, public health, risk, the body, the new genetics and gender.
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