Gendering Women

Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse

Bibliographic Data

ID19915965
AuthorsSuzanne Clisby (University of Hull), Suzanne Marie Clisby (0000-0003-1255-3115), Julia Holdsworth (University of Hull)
Year2014
Publication date2014-08-13
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueGendering Women (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.56687/9781847426789
OpenAlexW768668212
ISBN9781847426789
Open LibraryOL28586891M
LanguageEN
Citations received12

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

Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Identity (music) · Inequality · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Equality · Femininity · Feminism · Frau · Gender and women studies · Gender identity · Gendered subjects · Geschlechtsidentität · Lebenslauf · Mental Health · Sex role · Social conditions · Wohlbefinden · Women · Women's Studies

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