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1 online resource (vii, 271 pages) : maps |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Led by women's life history accounts, this is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women''s mental wellbeing through the life course. |
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About the authors; Acknowledgements; 1. Gendering, inequalities, and the limits of policy; Introduction; Conceptualising the embodiment of infrastructure; Framing the study: which women's voices? Why women's voices?; Methods and methodologies; Gender analysis and the persistence of patriarchy in contemporary British society; Conclusion: from the Equal Pay Act to the Equality Act: why policy-led approaches alone cannot work; 2. Gendering women's minds: identity, confidence and mental wellbeing; Gender and mental wellbeing. |
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The global and local contexts of gender and mental health Gendering and engendering selves: how being a 'man' and being a 'woman' can make you sick; 3. Gendering girls, gendering boys: identities in process; Introduction ; Gender, power and women's mental health; Gendering women: constructions of women's identities; 4. Gendering and engendering violence in women's everyday lives; Introduction; 5. Gendering education: the paradox of success versus status ; Introduction; Where does girls' confidence go? The transformation of girls in schooling. |
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The interplay of structural and symbolic violence: gendering the academic curriculumThe structural and symbolic gendered violence of the behavioural curriculum; Visceral violence: the impact of sexism, sexualisation and sexual violence for girls in school; Conclusion; 6. Gendering reproduction: women's experiences of motherhood and mental wellbeing; Introduction: women and mothering; Gender regimes, womanhood and motherhood: unpicking the Gordian knot; Mothering in the public realm: understanding messages of good and bad mothering; Mothers and public sanction: good and bad bodies. |
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Pregnant and mothering bodies: public possessions?Family, domesticity and the 'good' mother: how to be a proper woman (and have a clean, tidy house); Understanding the impact of motherhood choices in the public arena: thinking through work and play; 7. Gendering women's labour: status, esteem and inequality in paid and unpaid work; Introduction; The role of advice and guidance for women; The importance of embodied infrastructure: role models and mentors; Exploring the gendered nature of women's work; The impact of motherhood on women's professional lives. |
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The role of women's employment in building confidenceConclusion; 8. Conclusions: the embodied infrastructure of women's spaces, gender awareness, and the capacity for change ; Women's spaces: women transforming/transforming women; Women-only services: meeting needs, raising aspirations; Women-only safe spaces; Why women-only?; A safe learning environment; Focus on confidence building, empowerment and independence; Service user involvement and volunteer training; Integrated, holistic and needs-based services; First-rung provision ; Women's centres as a 'one-stop shop'; Reaching 'hard to reach' women: the importance of long-term provision. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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Gender identity -- England.
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Feminism -- England.
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Women's studies -- England.
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Femmes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions sociales.
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Identité de genre -- Angleterre.
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Féminisme -- Angleterre.
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Études sur les femmes -- Angleterre.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Women's studies
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Gender identity
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Women -- Social conditions
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
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England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C
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Feminism
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| Indexed Term |
Gendering |
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Identity |
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Lifecourse |
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Mental |
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Wellbeing |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Added Author |
Holdsworth, Julia, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clisby, Suzanne. Gendering women. Bristol : Policy Press, 2014 9781847426772 (OCoLC)894201453 |
| ISBN |
9781847426789 (electronic bk.) |
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1847426786 (electronic bk.) |
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1447321065 |
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9781447321064 |
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9781447311645 |
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1447311647 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000056013063 |
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AU@ 000058043570 |
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CHNEW 000711343 |
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CHNEW 000888595 |
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CHNEW 001083295 |
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CHVBK 592050998 |
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DEBSZ 449447723 |
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GBVCP 1003787452 |
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