The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender, 2015

The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender combines cutting edge research to provide a thorough overview of all the normative - and many of the less common - sexualities, genders and relationship forms alongside psychological and intersectional areas relating to sexuality and gender.

Introduction; Christina Richards and Dr Meg John Barker.- PART I: SEXUALITY.- Chapter 1. Asexuality; Dr Mark Carrigan.- Chapter 2. BDSM - bondage and discipline; dominance and submission; sadism and masochism; Dr Emma Turley and Dr Trevor Butt.- Chapter 3. Bisexuality; Helen Bowes-Catton and Dr Nikki Hayfield.- Chapter 4. Further sexualities; Christina Richards.- Chapter 5. Gay men; Dr Damien Riggs.- Chapter 6. Heterosexuality; Dr Pantea Farvid.- Chapter 7.Lesbian psychology; Dr Sonja Ellis.- Chapter 8. Trans sexualities; Dr Penny Lenihan, Dr Tony Kainth and Robin Dundas.- PART II: GENDER.- Chapter 9. Cisgender - Living in the gender assigned at birth; Dr Laura Harvey and Ester McGeeney.- Chapter 10. Further genders; Dr Meg John Barker and Christina Richards.- Chapter 11. Intersex/DSD; Prof Katrina Ron.- Chapter 12. Trans Gender - Living in a gender different from that assigned at birth; Dr Sarah Murjan and Dr Walter Pierre Bouman.- PART III: RELATIONSHIPS.- Chapter 13. Monogamy; Ali Ziegler; Prof Terri D. Conley; Amy C. Moors; Jes L. Matsick and Jennifer D. Rubin.- Chapter 14. Open non-monogamies; Dr Nathan Rambukkana PART IV: PSYCHOLOGICAL AREAS.- Chapter 15. Clinical psychology; Prof Jan Burns and Dr Claudia Zitz.- Chapter 16. Counselling psychology; Dawn Clark and Prof Del Loewenthal.- Chapter 17. Health psychology; Dr Joanna Semlyen.- Chapter 18. Qualitative methods; Dr Sarah Seymour- Smith.- Chapter 19. Quantitative methods; Dr Gareth Hagger-Johnson.- Chapter 20. Sex therapy; Michael Berry and Dr Meg John Barker.- PART V: INTERSECTIONS.- Chapter 21. Ageing; Dr Paul Simpson.- Chapter 22. Class; Dr Bridgette Rickett and Dr Maxine Woolhouse.- Chapter 23. Disability; Dr Alex Iantaffi and Dr Sara Mize.- Chapter 24. Ethnicity; Dr Roshan das Nair.- Chapter 25. Religion; Dr Rob Clucas.

Meg John Barker is a writer, academic, counsellor and activist specialising in sex and relationships. Meg is a senior lecturer in Psychology at the Open University, UK and has published many academic books and papers on topics including non-monogamous relationships, sadomasochism, counselling, and mindfulness, as well as co-editing the journal Psychology & Sexuality. They were the lead author of The Bisexuality Report – which has informed UK policy and practice around bisexuality. They are involved in running many public events on sexuality and relationships, including Sense about Sex, Critical Sexology, and Gender & Sexuality Talks. Meg is also a UKCP accredited therapist working with gender and sexually diverse clients, and wrote the relationship book Rewriting the Rules.