Transgender identities have historically been faced with erasure by the cisgender community, particularly through being forced to use cisgender terminology to define their own non-conforming experiences. This systemic cisgender inscription upon transgender identity is seen clearly through Bernice Hausman’s medicalizing reading of transgender narratives, leading her to falsely conclude that tran...

Previous studies try to account for variance in adolescent sexual precociousness, sexual mobility, and childbearing by reference either to sociological risk factors (e.g., poverty, social class, opportunities for sexual activity, or the absence of constraints on sexual activity) or to an evolved, domain-specific cognitive mechanism. However, these forms of behavioral variation may reflect an ev...

This paper investigates alternatives to studying the lives of lone mothers through the homogenizing category ‘lone mother’. This can be achieved by an analysis which combines the following three critical perspectives on the category: first, understanding the impact that contexts (both material and cultural) have on how lone motherhood is defined and experienced; second, acknowledging how the ca...

In this article I discuss the difference between Vygotsky’s and Vasilyuk’s uses of the term perezhivanie. Arguably, this difference may have contributed to some of the current ambiguity regarding the notion of perezhivanie in cultural psychology. In short, I propose that Vasilyuk’s perezhivanie can be understood as a special type of activity, whereas Vygotsky’s perezhivanie can be better unders...