Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge. With attention to Durkheim's founding study of suicide, as well as discourses within sociology, law, medicine, psy-knowledge and newsprint media, this book demonstrates that suicide cannot be understood without understanding how gender shapes it, and without giving explicit attention to the manner in which prevailing claims privilege some interpretations and experiences of suicide above others.…mehr
Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge. With attention to Durkheim's founding study of suicide, as well as discourses within sociology, law, medicine, psy-knowledge and newsprint media, this book demonstrates that suicide cannot be understood without understanding how gender shapes it, and without giving explicit attention to the manner in which prevailing claims privilege some interpretations and experiences of suicide above others.
Katrina Jaworski is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Understanding suicide through gender: an introduction The construction of knowledge of suicide and gender in suicidology Performative knowledge: re-reading gender in suicide Durkheim's social recognition of gender in Suicide 'Fact-finding exercises': the coroner, suicide and gender 'What it means to see' reading gender in medical examinations of suicide The visibility of difference: gender and suicide in psy-knowledge Intriguing events, spectacular deaths What now? Concluding remarks Bibliography Index.
Contents: Understanding suicide through gender: an introduction The construction of knowledge of suicide and gender in suicidology Performative knowledge: re-reading gender in suicide Durkheim's social recognition of gender in Suicide 'Fact-finding exercises': the coroner, suicide and gender 'What it means to see' reading gender in medical examinations of suicide The visibility of difference: gender and suicide in psy-knowledge Intriguing events, spectacular deaths What now? Concluding remarks Bibliography Index.
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