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.

Susan Hogan is Professor of Arts & Health at the University of Derby, UK. She has written extensively on the relationship between the arts and insanity, and the role of the arts in rehabilitation, particularly in relation to women.

1. Introduction. Inscribed on the Body: Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies

Prof. Susan Hogan

2. Feminism as Practice: Crafting and the Politics of the Therapeutic

Dr. Savneet Talwar

3. Under the Skin: Barriers and Opportunities for Dance-Movement Therapy & Art Psychotherapy with LGBT+ Clients

Dr. Thania Acarón & Alison Wren

4. Breaking and Entering: Wounded Masculinity and Sexual Offending

Emma Allen

5. Body Politics and Performance of Gender in Music Therapy

Dr Randi Rolvsjord & Dr Jill Halstead

6. Mask and Gender: From Concealment to Revelation, from Pain to Relief. Arts Therapies with Masks. A Journey Through Art Therapy

Irina Katz-Mazilu

7. Mediating the Cultural Boundaries: The Rise of Lion Rock Spirit in Hong Kong Women

Bianca Ling Cheun Lee & Regina Wai Yin Au

8. Gender Difference Expressed in Costuming and Dramatic Play: Warrior Cat Boy

Dr Jeanne Sutherland

9. On Being a Male Dramatherapist

Dr. Clive Holmwood

10. The Perilous House

Silvia Wyder

11. Gender Fluidity Through Dance Movement Therapy

Julie Hall

12. Gender Research in Dance Movement Therapy

Katherina Forstreuter and Sabine C. Koch

13. Art Therapy and Motherhood as a Rite of Passage

Evelina Jagminaite

14. Gender Identity, Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation in a Drama-Therapeutic Context: An Attachment Perspective

Craig Flickinger

15. Dismantling the Gender Binary in Elder Care: Creativity Instead of Craft

Dr. Erin Partridge

16. Beyond Masculine and Feminine: Responding to Real Expressions of Gender Identity and the Effect on our Own Gender Identity in Psychotherapy Practice

Mark Wheeler

17. Beyond the Binaries: Negotiating Gender and Sex in Music Therapy

Dr Susan Hadley and Maevon Gumble