| Description |
ix, 239 pages ; 25 cm |
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Women and psychology |
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Women and psychology.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Depression: a gendered problem. 2. What is depression? Definitional debates -- Pt. II. Explaining depression in women: mainstream frameworks. 3. Looking for sources of depression within person-environment interactions: diathesis-stress models. 4. Depression and women's psychology: susceptibility or specificity? 5. Social models of depression: sources of adversity and stress in women's lives. 6. Women's bodies, women's lives and depression: exploring material-discursive approaches -- Pt. III. Embodied lives: understanding depression in women in context. 7. Depression in adolescence: negotiating identities in a girl-poisoning culture. 8. Women's lives and depression: marriage and motherhood. 9. Women and aging: depression in midlife and old age -- Pt. IV. Implications for theory and practise: feminist social constructionist approaches. 10. Women overcoming depression: coping, treatment and politics |
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11. Why new perspectives are needed for understanding depression in women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-229) and indexes |
| Subject |
Depression in women -- Social aspects.
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Feminist psychology.
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Depressive Disorder.
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Feminism.
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Sociology.
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Women -- psychology.
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| LC no. |
99030361 |
| ISBN |
0415165628 |
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0415165636 |
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