For decades, the field of gender, sex, and sexualities has been a focal point of increasing interest. This inquiry has been ignited by successive waves of dramatic social change, chief among them: the re-emergence of feminist movements in the U.S. and Europe in the late 1960s; the sustained (and increasingly successful) bids for legal, social, and religious acceptance of non-heterosexual sexualities in many parts of the world; and the burgeoning number of people (whether cisgendered, gender-variant, trans, or questioning) whose individual and collective experiences of gender and sexuality warrant deeper understanding and further progress toward a fuller realization of human potential and civil rights.In psychology, the intellectual project of understanding gender, sex, and sexualities encompasses a variety of subfields spanning neuroscience and developmental, cognitive, social, and cultural psychology, as well as critical theory. As such, these approaches have inspired new and different psychological questions, as well as increased interest in previously unfamiliar topics of investigation.Edited by Nancy K. Dess, Jeanne Marecek, and Leslie C. Bell, Gender, Sex, and Sexualities offers both students and scholars the tools they need to consider and approach such questions as: how do children come to embrace (or repudiate) gendered activities and identities; how do people experience intimacy, desire, and sexual arousal; and what strategies can psychologists use to de-center their own points of view and effectively contribute to a decolonial psychology?As a result, this volume will open new avenues of inquiry as well as cross-disciplinary conversations for readers everywhere.

IntroductionPART I Emerging Frameworks: Beyond BinariesChapter 1: Setting the Stage: Gender, Sex, and Sexualities in PsychologyEva Magnusson and Jeanne MarecekChapter 2: Intersectionality as a Framework for Theory and Research in Feminist PsychologyLeah R. Warner and Stephanie A. ShieldsChapter 3: Non-Binary Gender IdentitiesPeter Hegarty, Y. Gavriel Ansara, and Meg-John BarkerChapter 4: On Being and Becoming Female and Male: A Sex-Neutral Evolutionary PerspectivePatricia Adair GowatyPART II Contemporary Avenues of InquiryChapter 5: Gender and Sex(ualities): A Cultural Psychology ApproachTug?e Kurtis and Glenn AdamsChapter 6: Discursive Psychological Approaches to the (Un)making of Sex/GenderNgaire DonaghueChapter 7: Gendered Power: Insights from Power Basis TheoryI-Ching Lee and Felicia PrattoChapter 8: Gender Stereotypes and Stereotyping: A Cognitive Perspective on Gender BiasMonica Biernat and Amanda SeskoChapter 9: Psychoanalytic Theories of GenderLeslie C. BellChapter 10: Gender, Dispositions, Peer Relations, and Identity: Toward an Integrative Developmental ModelCampbell LeaperChapter 11: The Integrative Psychobiology of Early Gender DevelopmentMelissa HinesChapter 12: Contemporary Theory in the Study of Intimacy, Desire, and SexualityLisa DiamondChapter 13: Integrating Evolutionary Affective Neuroscience and Feminism in Gender ResearchLeslie L. Heywood and Justin R. GarciaChapter 14: Categories, Gender, and Development: A Feminist PerspectiveEllin Scholnick and Patricia MillerAbout the Contributors