Bøker av Charlotte Dann

The Feminist Companion series includes titles that act as your friends and mentors in book form, supporting you in your studies, especially when things get tough. This companion offers a better-informed understanding of developmental psychology, covering key topics such as attachment, developmental disability, neurodiversity, and a range of other formative childhood experiences, all through a feminist lens. The implicit ethical issues that occur when conducting psychological research on children are also explored in depth. Ultimately, this book aims to develop your critical and analytical skills by encouraging a questioning approach to understanding theories in developmental psychology and considering how they have been applied in the real-world, including in school, healthcare and immigration settings.The book maps to the British Psychological Society (BPS) curriculum on research methods as well as the Quality Assessment Agency's (QAA) Subject Benchmark Statement for Psychology.

Although tattoos have become increasingly available to us, there are still spaces where they are not accepted, and even 'othered'. Looking at the UK, where media discourses are often unfavourable towards tattooed women discussing their own bodies, this book explores how we understand tattooed women's bodies in the UK - through the lens of gender and class. Unpacking themes which focus on how femininity is embodied, and how unwritten rules are broken or followed, Charlotte Dann demonstrates how meaning is key to our understanding of female body art. Drawing our attention to how traditional constructions of femininity are conformed to and resisted against, Dann positions media discourses of trends, regret, and transformation alongside tattooed women's own thoughts of their tattoos. The chapters uncover how tattoos relate to the embodiment, or resistance, of femininity where the body plays a complex role - in care, in the community, and in families. Delving into the societal norms about what women should and shouldn't do with their bodies, and looking specifically at motherhood, employment, and consumption, Dann demonstrates how meaning-making is critical to how women's tattooed bodies are understood, and how personal narratives take centre stage in the justification for tattoos. Providing a fuller understanding of the nuances particular to tattooed women, this book equips readers to reconstruct how we theorize femininity and the body.