knowledge production, theory and suicidology
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jaworski, Katrina
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- PAC 39 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- zelfdoding, gender, etniciteit, seksualiteit, mannelijkheid, geweld, lichamen
- Description
- This book presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge. With attention to Durkheim's founding study of suicide, as well as discourses within sociology, law, medicine, psy-knowledge and newsprint media, this book demonstrates that suicide cannot be understood without understanding how gender shapes it, and without giving explicit attention to the manner in which prevailing claims privilege some interpretations of suicide above others. Revealing the masculine and masculinist terms in which our current knowledge of suicide is constructed, the book explores the relationship between our grasp of suicide and problematic ideas connected to the body, agency, violence, race and sexuality.