The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender gives a thorough overview of all of the normative - and many of the less common - sexualities, genders and relationship forms including: Asexuality; Bisexuality; BDSM; Gay; Heterosexuality; Kink; Lesbian; Further sexualities; Trans sexualities; Cisgender; Intersex; Further genders; Non-binary gender; Monogamies; and Open Non-Monogamies.

Table of Contents

• List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction - Christina Richards and Meg John Barker
• Part I Sexuality
• 1 Asexuality - Mark Carrigan
• The history of asexuality
• Key theory and research
• The asexual community
• Confusions surrounding asexuality
• The psychology of asexuality
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Longitudinal studies
• Asexual relationships
• Gender, intersectionality, and diversity
• Summary
• 2 BDSM - Bondage and Discipline; Dominance and Submission; Sadism and Masochism - Emma L. Turley and Trevor Butt
• Introduction
• History
• Psychoanalysis and Freud
• Stoller and the ubiquity of perversion
• Key theory and research
• Psycho-medical perspective
• Non-pathologising perspectives
• Current debates
• BDSM and feminism
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• BDSM as adult recreation
• Implications for counselling and therapy
• Implications for discrimination
• Future directions
• 3 Bisexuality - Helen Bowes-Catton and Nikki Hayfield
• Introduction
• History
• First-wave sexology
• Second-wave sexology
• Early ‘gay-affirmative’ psychological research
• Overlooking bisexuality: Sex research and sex surveys of the 1970s and 1980s
• Key theory and research
• Early ‘bisexual-affirmative’ research: Acknowledging, defining, and ‘measuring’ bisexuality as a distinct identity
• Becoming visible: 1990s research on bisexuality
• Bi-affirmative research in psychology since the year 2000
• Current debates, implications, and future directions
• Activist-academic collaborations
• Intersectionality
• Researching beyond the organised bi community
• Summary
• 4 Further Sexualities - Christina Richards
• Introduction
• Ageplay
• Furry
• Fetish
• History
• Key theory and research
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 5 Gay Men - Damien W. Riggs
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and research
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 6 Heterosexuality - Panteá Farvid
• Introduction
• History
• History of the term ‘heterosexuality’
• Creating the heterosexual
• Early theorising of (hetero) sexuality
• Second-wave feminist critiques of heterosexuality
• Key theory and research
• Theorising heterosexuality
• Heteronormativity
• Researching heteronormativity
• Biological explanations
• Mainstream psychology
• Current debates and implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 7 Lesbian Psychology - Sonja J. Ellis
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and research
• Lesbian identity
• Lesbian relationships
• Lesbian parenting
• Lesbian health
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 8 Trans Sexualities - Penny Lenihan, Tony Kainth, and Robin Dundas
• Introduction
• Trans sexualities
• History
• Key theory, research, and current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• Part II Gender
• 9 Cisgender - Living in the Gender Assigned at Birth - Ester McGeeney and Laura Harvey
• Introduction
• Key definitions
• History
• Key theory and research
• Current debates and future directions
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Conclusions
• Summary
• 10 Further Genders - Meg John Barker and Christina Richards
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and research
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 11 Intersex/DSD - Katrina Roen
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and research
• Reviews and empirical studies
• Updates and conceptual contributions
• Current debates
• Disclosure
• Non-essential genital surgery on infants
• Prenatal treatment and psychological outcomes
• Gender identity and transition
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 12 Transgender - Living in a Gender Different from That - Assigned at Birth - Sarah Murjan and Walter Pierre Bouman
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and research
• Current approaches to assisting people with gender dysphoria
• Current debates
• Classification of gender dysphoria
• Access to treatment
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• Part III Relationships
• 13 Monogamy - Ali Ziegler, Terri D. Conley, Amy C. Moors, Jes L. Matsick, and Jennifer D. Rubin
• Introduction
• Key theory and research
• Definitions of monogamy across biological and social sciences
• Public health definition of monogamy
• Lay definitions of monogamy
• Why do people engage in monogamy?
• History
• Monogamy and sexual health
• Current debates
• Isn't everyone monogamous?
• Departures from monogamy
• You're still single? Repercussions for not ‘settling down’
• Monogamy and infidelity
• Gender and monogamy
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 14 Open Non-monogamies - Nathan Rambukkana
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and research
• Open non-monogamies and normative social and counselling psychology
• The theoretical questioning/exploration of extra-dyadic romantic love
• The effects of non-monogamies on women
• The effects of multiple-partner parenting on children, communities, and society
• The psychological exploration of the minutiae of non-monogamous living
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• Part IV Psychological Areas
• 15 Clinical Psychology - Jan Burns and Claudia Zitz
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and research
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 16 Counselling Psychology - Dawn Clark and Del Loewenthal
• History
• Key theory and research
• Current debates
• Case study
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Steps to analysis
• Future directions
• Summary
• 17 Health Psychology - Joanna Semlyen
• Introduction
• History
• Critical health psychology
• Current debates, key theory, and research
• Gender, sex, and health
• Gender and health psychology
• Trans health psychology
• Intersectionality
• Sexuality and health psychology
• Smoking and LGB
• Cancer and LGB
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Discrimination, disclosure, and health
• LGBT and mental health
• Future directions
• Understanding LGBT health
• Researching LGBT health
• Teaching LGBT health
• Addressing LGBT health
• Summary
• 18 Qualitative Methods - Sarah Seymour-Smith
• Introduction
• Beginnings
• Key theory, research, and current debates
• Experiential research
• Insider/outsider considerations
• The middle ground: Experiential and critical
• Critical research
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 19 Quantitative Methods - Gareth Hagger-Johnson
• Introduction
• Defining key terms
• History
• The Kinsey studies
• The Masters and Johnson studies
• The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
• Gender identity: The Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI)
• Key theory and research
• National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL)
• Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE)
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 2007-2008)
• English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
• Current debates
• The importance of longitudinal data
• Psychobiology of sexual orientation
• Future directions: Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Towards wider measurement of gender identities
• Summary
• 20 Sex Therapy - Michael Berry and Meg John Barker
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and current research
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• Part V Intersections
• 21 Ageing - Paul Simpson
• Key theory and research
• Definitions
• Ageing
• Ageism
• Gender
• Sexuality
• History
• Necessary withdrawal vs. continuity?
• Ageing as a product of societal arrangements
• Current debates
• Different cultures of ageing
• Ageing as radically socially constructed
• Newer currents - ambivalent resources of ageing
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world: Future directions
• Summary
• 22 Class - Bridgette Rickett and Maxine Woolhouse
• History, key theory, and research
• Gender and class
• Sexualities and class
• Intersections of gender, class, and sexualities
• Current debates and future directions
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Implications for theory and research
• Summary
• 23 Disability - Alex Iantaffi and Sara Mize
• Introduction
• Defining disability
• Disability and sexuality in psychology
• Key theory and research
• History and current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Summary
• 24 Ethnicity - Roshan das Nair
• Introduction
• History
• Key theory and research with implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Stereotypes
• Coming out from a race/ethnicity perspective
• Same-sex sexuality in the Global South
• BME same-sex sexuality in the West
• Current debates
• Future directions
• Summary
• 25 Religion - Rob Clucas
• Introduction
• History
• Sexuality
• Gender
• Prejudice
• Sex-negativity
• Either/or
• Key theory and research
• Current debates
• Implications for applied psychology and the wider world
• Future directions
• Conclusions
• Summary