Gendering Women : Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse
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Gendering Women : Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gendering Women : Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse

About this book

An 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 throughout the life course. This is in turn a driver of inequality that is often under-recognised in mainstream policy.

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Yes, you can access Gendering Women : Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse by Suzanne Clisby, Julia Holdsworth in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. GENDERING WOMEN
  2. Contents
  3. About the authors
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1. Gendering, inequalities, and the limits of policy
  6. 2. Gendering women’s minds: identity, confidence and mental wellbeing
  7. 3. Gendering girls, gendering boys: identities in process
  8. 4. Gendering and engendering violence in women’s everyday lives
  9. 5. Gendering education: the paradox of success versus status
  10. 6. Gendering reproduction: women’s experiences of motherhood and mental wellbeing
  11. 7. Gendering women’s labour: status, esteem and inequality in paid and unpaid work
  12. 8. Conclusions: the embodied infrastructure of women’s spaces, gender awareness, and the capacity for change
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index