Breaking Down or Breaking Through

An Alternative Way to Understand Depression Among Women in Hong Kong

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12759807
AutoresSik Ying Ho (University of Hong Kong, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume10
Fascículo3
Páginas89-106
Data de publicação2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1531-3204 • E-ISSN: 1531-3212
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j051v10n03_06
OpenAlexW2102300828
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas21

Case studies of ten Hong Kong women diagnosed with depression demonstrate that depression is not necessarily, but can be, one strategy for dealing with the problems of everyday life. Neither is it always an outspoken critique of the family as an institution and the gender inequality in the Hong Kong society. However, depression should never be understood simply as personal or social pathology, but as an attempt to negotiate with social reality. These women used their bodies for experiencing, interpreting, and communicating about emotions and social issues. Depression is one of the strategies these women used to resist social forces and transform them into conditions that made possible the creation of space for personal changes

Depression (economics · Everyday life · Inequality · Institution · Negotiation · Political science · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology