Jemma Tosh: 2 books

Book cover of Psychology and Gender Dysphoria

Psychology and Gender Dysphoria

Feminist and Transgender Perspectives

by Jemma Tosh
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016

Psychiatry and psychology have a long and highly debated history in relation to gender. In particular, they have attracted criticism for policing the boundaries of ‘normal’ gender expression through gender identity diagnoses, such as transvestism, transsexualism, gender identity disorder and gender...
Book cover of Perverse Psychology

Perverse Psychology

The pathologization of sexual violence and transgenderism

by Jemma Tosh
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014

Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as ‘evil’. This is hotly contested territory, not least where sexual violence is concerned – violence which feminist voices argue is related...
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