Culture in Psychology

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Reconfiguring psychology and culture......Page 16
More than simply talk and text: psychologists as cultural ethnographers......Page 32
Gender, genes and genetics: from Darwin to the human genome......Page 46
Culture and social formations......Page 60
Cultural contestations in practice: white boys and the racialisation of masculinities......Page 62
White girls and women in the contemporary United States: supporting or subverting race and gender domination?......Page 74
Constructing racism: discourse, culture and subjectivity......Page 88
Culture and representations......Page 100
Good, bad or dangerous to know: representations of femininity in narrative accounts of PMS......Page 102
The tyranny of the \'six-pack\'? Understanding men\'s responses to representations of the male body in popular culture......Page 115
Changing youth: an exploration of visual and textual cultural identifications......Page 133
Culture and the emotions......Page 148
Culture, psychology and transitional space......Page 150
Culture and emotions: depression among Pakistanis......Page 162
The impact of culture in the face of genocide: struggling between a silenced home culture and a foreign host culture......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 190
Index......Page 194