Engendering Emotions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Conceptualising Gender and Emotion

   • Alan Petersen

   Pages 1-27

3. Psychology, Gender, and Emotion

   • Alan Petersen

   Pages 28-55

4. Gender, Emotion, and War

   • Alan Petersen

   Pages 56-88

5. Love, Intimacy, and Sex

   • Alan Petersen

   Pages 89-124

6. Gender, ‘Emotional Literacy’, and the Future

   • Alan Petersen

   Pages 125-159

7. Back Matter

   Pages 160-185

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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.

• aggression
• emotion
• gender
• psychology
• Sex
• women

• School of Sociology, Politics and Law, University of Plymouth, UK

  Alan 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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