Gendering Women
Subtitle: Identity and Mental Wellbeing Through the Lifecourse
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781847426772
Subjects: Sex role; Gender identity; Mental health; Equality
Description: 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.