identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Clisby, Suzanne
- Creator
- Holdsworth, Julia
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1M 2016
- Thesaurus
- geestelijke gezondheid, vrouwelijkheid, seksisme, dagelijks leven, moederschap, geweld, arbeid, overheidsbeleid, Verenigd Koninkrijk, onderzoek
- Description
- Based on feminist and ethnographically informed research between 2005-2013 with over five hundred 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 (constructions of femininity) - in family life, education, employments, 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 impacts on the material conditions of women's lives throughout the lifecourse. This is in turn a driver of gender-based inequality in the United Kingdom, that is often under-recognised in mainstream policy.