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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, educ...
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oapen-20.500.12657-439502021-07-21T03:53:32Z Gendering Women Clisby, Suzanne Holdsworth, Julia Social Science Gender Studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups 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. 2020-12-15T14:11:33Z 2020-12-15T14:11:33Z 2014 book 9781847426772 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43950 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Policy Press Bristol University Press 104188 f394f44e-e957-4b77-91b6-32fe9c22978a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781847426772 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bristol University Press Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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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. |
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