Perverse psychology : the pathologization of sexual violence and transgenderism / Jemma Tosh.
Material type: TextSeries: Concepts for critical psychologyPublisher: London : Routledge 2014Description: 160 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781848721722 (hbk.) :
- 9781848721739 (pbk.) :
- 364.153019 23
- HV6556 .T67 2014
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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 to power rather than sex. This book 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.
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