Gendering women

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84742-677-2
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

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

Based on feminist and ethnographically informed research with over five hundred women Gendering women provides a critical link between gender theory and the lived realities of women’s daily lives and will appeal to students and academics in sociology and social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clisby, Suzanne

Holdsworth, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Gendering, inequalities, and the limits of policy;

Gendering women’s minds: identity, confidence and mental wellbeing;

Gendering girls, gendering boys: identities in process;

Gendering and engendering violence in women’s everyday lives;

Gendering education: the paradox of success versus status;

Gendering reproduction: women’s experiences of motherhood and mental wellbeing;

Gendering women’s labour: status, esteem and inequality in paid and unpaid work;

Conclusions: The embodied infrastructure of women’s spaces, gender awareness, and the capacity for change

Über Autor(innen)

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.