Silencing the Self Across Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Depression and Gender in the Social World
Redaktion: Jack, Dana C.; Ali, Alisha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This international volume offers new perspectives on social and psychological aspects of depression. The twenty-one contributors hailing from thirteen countries use the framework of Silencing the Self theory to examine gender differences in depression, as well as related aspects of mental and physical illness, including treatments specific to women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190453299
• Artikelnr.: 42727223

Autorenporträt

Dana C. Jack is Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University. Her research examines women's depression and anger in the US and internationally, and qualitative research methods. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Nepal in 2001, and is the author of three books, including Silencing the Self: Women and Depression. Alisha Ali is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. Her research examines social influences on women's depression, including the effects of emotional abuse, racism, and harassment. She is currently the principal investigator on a series of studies examining economic empowerment for survivors of domestic violence.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword: Silence No More
* Judith Worell
* Section I: Setting the Stage: Social, Biomedical, and Ethical Issues
in Understanding Women's Depression
* Chapter 1: Introduction: Culture, Self-Silencing, and Depression: A
Contextual-Relational Perspective
* Dana Crowley Jack and Alisha Ali
* Chapter 2: The Social Causes of Women's Depression: A Question of
Rights Violated?
* Jill Astbury
* Chapter 3: Drugs Don't Talk: Do Medication and Biological Psychiatry
Contribute to Silencing the Self?
* Richard A. Gordon
* Chapter 4: The Itinerant Researcher: Ethical and Methodological
Issues in Conducting Cross-Cultural Mental Health Research
* Joseph E. Trimble, María R. Scharrón-del Río, and Guillermo Bernal
* Section II: Self-Silencing and Depression across Cultures
* Introduction to Section II: On the Critical Importance of
Relationships for Women's Well-Being
* Judith Jordan
* Chapter 5: Women's Self-Silencing and Depression in the
Socio-Cultural Context of Germany
* Tanja Zoellner and Susanne Hedlund
* Chapter 6: Gender as Culture: The Meanings of Self-Silencing in Women
and Men
* Linda Smolak
* Chapter 7: 'I Don't Express My Feelings to Anyone': How
Self-Silencing Relates to Depression and Gender in Nepal
* Dana Jack, Bindu Pokharel, and Usha Subba
* Chapter 8: Silencing the Self across Generations and Gender in
Finland
* Airi Hautamäki
* Chapter 9: The Meaning of Self-Silencing in Polish Women
* Krystyna Drat-Ruszczak
* Chapter 10: Exploring the Immigrant Experience through Self-Silencing
Theory and the Full Frame Approach: The Case of Caribbean Immigrant
Women in Canada and the U.S.
* Alisha Ali
* Chapter 11: Deconstructing Gendered Discourses of Love, Power, and
Violence in Intimate Relationships: Portuguese Women's Experiences
* Sofia Neves and Conceição Nogueira
* Chapter 12: Authentic Self-Expression: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture
* Anjoo Sikka, Linda (Gratch) Vaden-Goad, and Lisa K. Waldner
* Chapter 13: Silencing the Self and Personality Vulnerabilities
Associated with Depression
* Avi Besser, Gordon L. Flett, and Paul L. Hewitt
* Chapter 14: Sociopolitical, Gender, and Cultural Factors in the
Conceptualization and Treatment of Depression among Haitian Women
* Guerda Nicolas, Bridget Hirsch, and Clelia Beltrame
* Section III: The Health Effects of Self-Silencing
* Introduction to Section III: Empowering Depressed Women: The
Importance of a Feminist Lens
* Laura S. Brown
* Chapter 15: Supporting Voice in Women Living with HIV/AIDS
* Rosanna F. DeMarco
* Chapter 16: Facilitating Women's Development through the Illness of
Cancer: Depression, Self-Silencing, and Self-Care
* Mary Sormanti
* Chapter 17: Eating Disorders and Self-Silencing: A Function-Focused
Approach to Treatment
* Josie Geller, Sujatha Srikameswaran, and Stephanie Cassin
* Chapter 18: Self-Silencing and the Risk of Heart Disease and Death in
Women: The Framingham Offspring Study
* Elaine D. Eaker and Margaret Kelly-Hayes
* Chapter 19: Silencing the Heart: Women in Treatment for
Cardiovascular Disease
* Maria I. Medved
* Chapter 20: Disruption of the Silenced Self: The Case of
Pre-Menstrual Syndrome
* Jane M. Ussher and Janette Perz
* Chapter 21: 'I Wasn't being True to Myself': Women's Narratives of
Postpartum Depression
* Natasha S. Mauthner
* Chapter 22: Seeking Safety with Undesirable Outcomes: Women's
Self-Silencing in Abusive Intimate Relationships and Implications for
Healthcare
* Stephanie J. Woods
* COMMENTARY
* Janet M. Stoppard
* Appendix A: The Silencing the Self Scale