ABSTRACT

Arts Therapies and Gender Issues offers international perspectives on gender in arts therapies research and demonstrates understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Analysing current innovations and approaches in the arts therapies, it discusses issues of cultural identity, which intersect with sex, gender norms, stereotypes and sexual identity.

The book includes unique and detailed case studies such as the emerging discipline of creative writing for therapeutic purposes, re-enactment phototherapy, performative practice and virtual reality. Bringing together leading researchers, it demonstrates clinical applications and shares ideas about best practice.

Incorporating art, drama, dance and music therapy, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of arts therapies, psychology, medicine, psychotherapy, health and education. It will also appeal to practitioners and teachers of art, dance-movement, drama and music therapy.

part I|1 pages

Art therapy, dance movement therapy, drama therapy and music therapy

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

Arts therapies and gender issues

chapter 2|8 pages

Drawing on visions of the future of young women in poverty

Art as a feminist research method

chapter 3|15 pages

Queering music therapy

Music therapy and LGBTQAI+ Peoples

chapter 5|15 pages

The eye of the beholder

Encountering women’s experience of domestic violence and abuse as a male researcher and art therapist

chapter 6|20 pages

Parental gender roles in clay

Perceptions of gender-role issues among Israeli fathers to toddlers as expressed in a clay figure-sculpting task

chapter 7|20 pages

The birth project

Mothers and birth professionals make art

chapter 8|9 pages

Queer bodies and queer practices

The implications of queer theory for dramatherapy

part II|1 pages

Emergent practices and specialisms

chapter 11|16 pages

Multiple gendered abilities

A therapeutic writing approach

chapter 12|22 pages

What can a man do with a camera?

Exploring masculinities with phototherapy

chapter 13|22 pages

Look at me! Representing self: Representing Ageing

Older women represent their own narratives of ageing, using re-enactment phototherapeutic techniques

chapter 15|19 pages

Complicated gender and problematised bodies

The impact of severe illness explored through the lens of portrait therapy

chapter |1 pages

Concluding note