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Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse
Suzanne Clisby
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Description for Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse
Hardcover.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman – in family life, education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence – both enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The challenges to women’s mental wellbeing cut across age and class differences and have profound impacts on the material conditions of women’s ... Read more
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman – in family life, education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence – both enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The challenges to women’s mental wellbeing cut across age and class differences and have profound impacts on the material conditions of women’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Policy Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847426772
SKU
V9781847426772
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-17
About Suzanne Clisby
Suzanne Clisby is a director of postgraduate gender studies and lecturer in social sciences at the University of Hull, UK. Her research focuses on gender, social policy and development, both in UK and international contexts. Julia Holdsworth combines university-based research and teaching in the social sciences with research and community development work both in the UK and abroad. Gender issues ... Read more
Reviews for Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse
“Utterly timely. Challenging discourses of post feminism, this book returns us to the voices of women on the lived realities of their everyday lives. Highly recommended.” Professor Kathleen Lennon, University of Hull ??"A well written and timely book on the important issue of women's identity and mental illness, across the life course, which will interest those researching in diverse disciplines.?" ... Read more