Mental health from a gender perspective /

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The gender perspective is largely lacking in the discourse on mental health in India while the debate on women's issues rarely incorporates this important topic. Bringing together original contributions from a variety of perspectives, including sociology, anthropology, literature and media stud...

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Údair Eile: Davar, Bhargavi V.
Formáid: Printed Book
Teanga:English
Foilsithe: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2001.
Ábhair:
Women > Mental health > India.
Rochtain Ar Líne:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00059156.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0657/00059156-d.html
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  • I
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I Gender and Mental Health: Inter-disciplinary
  • Perspectives
  • Bhargavi V. Davar
  • II Mental Health of Indian Women:
  • A Field Experience
  • Ajita Chakraborty
  • III Gender Issues in Mental Health:
  • A Clinical Psychology Perspective
  • Anisha Shah
  • IV From the Personal to the Collective:
  • Psychological/Feminist Issues of
  • Women's Mental Health
  • U. Vindhya
  • V Further Considerations on Women and
  • Mental Health
  • Sasheej Hegde
  • THE BODY, REPRODUCTION AND MENTAL HEALTH
  • VI The Interface between Psychiatry and
  • Women's Reproductive Health
  • Prabha S. Chandra
  • 6 * Mental Health from a Gender Perspective
  • VII Gynaecological Morbidity and Common
  • Mental Disorders in Low-income Urban
  • Women in Mumbai
  • Surinder K.P. Jaswal
  • VIII The Female Body as the Battleground
  • of Meaning
  • Janet Chawla and Sarah Pinto
  • IX The Female Body of Possession:
  • A Feminist Perspective on Rural Tamil
  • Women's Experiences
  • Kalpana Ram
  • VIOLENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH
  • X The Unsafe Nest: Analysing and Treating
  • the Roots and Reaches of Marital Violence
  • Rajalakshmi Sriram and Sudipta Mukherjee
  • XI Self-disclosure in Child Sexual Abuse:
  • Content Analysis of Written Narratives
  • of Disclosure
  • L. Kavitha Vijayalakshmi and Shekhar Seshadri
  • XII Child Sexual Abuse and Social Factors
  • Preventing Disclosure: Adolescent Girls'
  • Narratives
  • Rinchin and Shubhada Maitra
  • XIII Sexual Violence and Mental Health:
  • Confronting the Paradox of the
  • 'Guilty' Victim
  • Kavita Panjabi
  • XIV Inscribing Madness: Another Reading of
  • the Yellow Wallpaper and the Bell Jar
  • Jayasree Kalathil
  • WOMEN, SOCIETY AND MENTAL ILLNESS
  • XV The Lay and Medical Diagnoses of Psychiatric
  • Disorder and the Normative Construction
  • of Femininity
  • Renu Addlakha
  • XVI Women and the Law on Unsoundness of Mind
  • Amita Dhanda IXVII The Media and Women's Mental Health
  • Ammu Joseph
  • References
  • About the Editor and Contributors
  • Index.

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