Full Description
Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body offers worldwide perspectives on gender in arts therapies practice and provides understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Bringing together leading researchers and lesser-known voices, it contains an eclectic mix of viewpoints, and includes detailed case studies of arts therapies practice in an array of social settings and with different populations.
In addition to themes of gender identification, body politics and gender fluidity, this title discusses gender and arts therapies across the life-course, encompassing in its scope, art, music, dance and dramatic play therapy.
Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies demonstrates clinical applications of the arts therapies in relation to gender, along with ideas about best practice. It will be of great interest to academics and practitioners in the field of arts therapies globally.
Contents
Introduction. Inscribed on the Body: Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies
Prof. Susan Hogan
Feminism as Practice: Crafting and the Politics of the Therapeutic
Dr. Savneet Talwar
Under the Skin: Barriers and Opportunities for Dance-Movement Therapy & Art Psychotherapy with LGBT+ Clients
Dr. Thania Acarón & Alison Wren
Breaking and Entering: Wounded Masculinity and Sexual Offending
Emma Allen
Body Politics and Performance of Gender in Music Therapy
Dr Randi Rolvsjord & Dr Jill Halstead
Mask and Gender: From Concealment to Revelation, from Pain to Relief. Arts Therapies with Masks. A Journey Through Art Therapy
Irina Katz-Mazilu
Mediating the Cultural Boundaries: The Rise of Lion Rock Spirit in Hong Kong Women
Bianca Ling Cheun Lee & Regina Wai Yin Au
Gender Difference Expressed in Costuming and Dramatic Play: Warrior Cat Boy
Dr Jeanne Sutherland
On Being a Male Dramatherapist
Dr. Clive Holmwood
The Perilous House
Silvia Wyder
Gender Fluidity Through Dance Movement Therapy
Julie Hall
Gender Research in Dance Movement Therapy
Katherina Forstreuter and Sabine C. Koch
Art Therapy and Motherhood as a Rite of Passage
Evelina Jagminaite
Gender Identity, Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation in a Drama-Therapeutic Context: An Attachment Perspective
Craig Flickinger
Dismantling the Gender Binary in Elder Care: Creativity Instead of Craft
Dr. Erin Partridge
Beyond Masculine and Feminine: Responding to Real Expressions of Gender Identity and the Effect on our Own Gender Identity in Psychotherapy Practice
Mark Wheeler
Beyond the Binaries: Negotiating Gender and Sex in Music Therapy
Dr Susan Hadley and Maevon Gumble
