Engendering Emotions

by Alan Petersen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333997379
• ISBN13: 9780333997376
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.8"