Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing Through the Lifecourse

by Suzanne Clisby and Julia Holdsworth

Book Overview

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184742676X
• ISBN13: 9781847426765
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"