Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
Psychological Perspectives
Edited by Nancy Dess, Jeanne Marecek, and Leslie Bell
Author Information
Edited by Nancy Dess, Professor, Department of Psychology, Occidental College, Edited by Jeanne Marecek, William Rand Kenan Professor of Psychology Emerita and Senior Research Professor, Swarthmore College, and Edited by Leslie Bell, sociologist and psychotherapist, private practice
Nancy K. Dess is Professor of Psychology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Her work on the relationship between emotion and eating, peace, and research ethics has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She is a member of the American Psychological Association's Board of Scientific Affairs, has served as APA's Senior Scientist, and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.
Jeanne Marecek is William R. Kenan Professor of Psychology Emerita at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She is a critical feminist psychologist and has worked extensively in Sri Lanka and in the Nordic countries. She is co-author of Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Gender (Yale University, 1990); Gender and Culture in Psychology: Theories and Practices (Cambridge, 2012); and Doing Interview-based Qualitative Research (Cambridge, 2015). She is co-editor of Feminism & Psychology.
Leslie C. Bell is a psychotherapist and sociologist in private practice in Berkeley, California. Her research focuses on young women's experiences of sexuality and relationships, and integrates psychoanalytic and sociological theories and methods. Her work has appeared in various academic and popular publications and has been frequently featured in the news media. She is the author of Hard to Get: Twentysomething Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom (University of California Press, 2013).
Contributors:
Glenn Adams
Department of Psychology
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Y. Gavriel Ansara
Sydney, Australia
Meg-John Barker
School of Psychology
The Open University
Milton Keynes, England, UK
Leslie C. Bell
Berkeley, California, USA
Monica Biernat
Department of Psychology
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Nancy K. Dess
Department of Psychology
Occidental College
Los Angeles, California, USA
Lisa Diamond
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Ngaire Donaghue
School of Humanities
University of Tasmania
Tasmania, Australia
Justin R. Garcia
Kinsey Institute
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Patricia Adair Gowaty
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, USA
Peter Hegarty
Department of Psychology
University of Surrey
Guildford, England, UK
Leslie L. Heywood
Department of English
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York, USA
Melissa Hines
Department of Psychology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, UK
Tugçe Kurtis
Department of Psychology
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, Georgia, USA
Campbell Leaper
Department of Psychology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California, USA
I-Ching Lee
Department of Psychology
National Chengchi University
Taipei, Taiwan
Eva Magnusson
Department of Psychology
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
Jeanne Marecek
Department of Psychology
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
Patricia Miller
Department of Psychology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California, USA
Felicia Pratto
Department of Psychological Sciences
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut, USA
Ellin Scholnick
Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, USA
Amanda Sesko
Department of Psychology
University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska, USA
Stephanie A. Shields
Department of Psychology
Pennsylvania State University
State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Leah R. Warner
School of Social Science and Human Services
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
