The Gendered Landscape of Suicide Masculinities, Emotions, and Culture /

• Main Author: Cleary, Anne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Emotions.; Social medicine.; Medical anthropology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Emotion.; Medical Sociology.; Medical Anthropology.; Gender Studies.

This book is an attempt to understand suicide from the perspective of a group of men who decided to take their own lives. Their stories imply that male suicide is not, as frequently portrayed, an impulsive action arising from particular, sex-specific, causes but relates to a cluster of interlinked i...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Gendered Landscape of Suicide
• Chapter 2 Masculinities, Emotions, and Cultures
• Chapter 3 Growing up Male
• Chapter 4 The Meaning and Context of Suicidal Action
• Chapter 5 Survivors and Casualties
• Chapter 6 Conclusions: The Social and Emotional Landscape of Suicide
• Chapter 7 Postscript Lessons for Prevention.