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Women and Depression : Recovery and Resistance by Michelle N. Lafrance, Jane Ussher is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance takes a welcome look at women's experiences of living well after depression. Lafrance argues that the social construction of femininity is dangerous for women's health, and ultimately, central to their experiences of depression. Beginning with a critical examination of the ways in which women's depression is a product of the social, political, and interpersonal realities of their everyday lives, the analysis moves on to explore an often ignored aspect of women's experience – how women manage to 'recover' and be well after depression. The book draws on extensive in-depth interviews with women who have been depressed, as well as on previous research and on analyses of representations of women's health practices in the media. In this way Lafrance critically examines how women negotiate and actively resist hegemonic discourses of femininity in their struggles to recover from depression and be well. Threaded throughout the analysis is the exploration of a variety of subjects related to women's distress and health, including: negotiating identity the medicalization of women's misery women's narratives of resistance the material and dis

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Author

Michelle N. Lafrance, Jane Ussher

Publisher

Taylor & Francis US

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203889718

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Psychology, Medical