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This chapter will present research and theory in the field of psychology that help us to understand how gender, sexuality and class articulate together to fashion our everyday understandings of other people, ourselves, and the spaces and places we inhabit.

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  1. Bridgette Rickett
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and West London Mental Health NHS Trust, UK

    Christina Richards (Senior Specialist Psychology Associate and Clinical Research Fellow) (Senior Specialist Psychology Associate and Clinical Research Fellow)

  2. The Open University, UK

    Meg John Barker (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) (Senior Lecturer in Psychology)

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Rickett, B., Woolhouse, M. (2015). Class. In: Richards, C., Barker, M.J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345899_23

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