Julia Holdsworth

Gendering Women

Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse

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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 lives t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Clisby, Suzanne

ISBN: 978-1-4473-2106-4
EAN: 9781447321064
Produktnummer: 20529681
Verlag: Policy Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
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Über den Autor

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 have been central to much of this work.