Department of Psychology
Biography:
Keywords: gender norms; sexuality and identity; sexuality and disability; feminist epistemologies and methodologies
Having completed my PhD in Experimental Psychology at York University in 1997, I took up a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Health Psychology at Mount Saint Vincent University. During this time, I extended my doctoral work on identity renegotiation in HIV-positive women to a focus on disclosure issues in this population. Other projects during this time pertained to health, sexuality and identity among sexual minority groups. I joined the Ryerson Psychology Department in 2001, following a two-year Clinical/Research Fellowship in Psychosocial Oncology at Princess Margaret Hospital (University Health Network). At PMH, I began to study traumatic stress among cancer patients, as well as continuing my interests in sexuality and gender issues as they pertain to this population. I have also examined traumatic stress among emergency medical personnel.
My current research interests focus primarily on constructions of gender, sexuality and identity. Some of this work has been done in the context of health issues, such as: sexuality in HIV-positive women; gender and sexuality in men with testicular cancer; and lesbian and bisexual women's health. Other aspects of this work center on ways in which identity is implicated in sexuality, such as: decisions about labeling among bisexual women; the epistemological location of bisexuality within queer theory; shifting sexual norms and practices in the context of media and pornography influences and the medicalization of sexuality; and sexuality and disability.
Methodologically, we use both quantitative and qualitative approaches in our Gender, Sexuality and Critical Psychology Lab. A Critical Psychology perspective guides much of our research, wherein the focus is on the sociopolitical implications and applications of psychological theory and practice. Critical Psychology aims to critically evaluate the ways in which psychology as a discipline not only discovers but also shapes and produces knowledge about human behavior, cognition and emotion. In so doing, we rely on poststructuralist and discursive approaches and feminist epistemologies. Please visit our lab page: Gender, Sexuality & Critical Psychology Lab
My teaching includes undergraduate courses in: Human Sexuality, Psychology of Gender, and Death, Dying and Bereavement. Graduate courses include: Advanced Seminar in Gender and Health, and Critical Perspectives in Psychology.
Selected Publications:
Halpern J, Maunder RG, Schwartz B, Gurevich M. (2012). Identifying, describing and expressing emotions after critical incidents in paramedics. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 25, 111-114.
Stuart, C., Sanders, L., Gurevich, M., & Fulton, R. (2011). Evidence-based practice in group care: The effects of policy, research, and practice-based education. Child Welfare, 90, 93-113.
Gurevich, M., Bailey, H., Bower, J. (2011). Querying theory and politics: The epistemic (dis)location of bisexuality within queer theory. In Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections, and Challenges (2011), Ed. J. Alexander & S. Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Routledge.
* Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction
Gurevich, M., Mathieson, C.M., Bower, J., & Dhayanandhan, B. (2007). Disciplining Bodies, Desires and Subjectivities: Sexuality in HIV-Positive Women. Feminism & Psychology, 17(1), 9-38.
Gurevich, M., Bower, J., Mathieson, C.M., & Dhayanandhan, B. (2007). What do they look like and are they among us?’: Bisexuality, (dis)closure and (un)viability. Book chapter in Out in Psychology: LGBT Perspectives (pp. 217-242). E. Peel & V. Clarke (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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