Identity, health and women : a critical social psychological perspective / Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou.
Material type: TextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: xiv, 227 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780230241794
- 0230241794 (hardback)
- 613.042 22 CHR
- 2010 L-959
- WA 309
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This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented as the book follows the rationale, stories and narrative methodology of the study of a group of women. The final part of the book presents a new model of identity construction framed in women's health identity.
Foreword by Judith Sixsmith PART I: THEORY Introducing Health and Psychology Understanding Women's Health: Health Perspectives Identity Theory and an Interactive Health Identity Feminist as far as Possible - The Feminist Health Identity and Critical Realism Investigating Women's Health: The Story so Far PART II: VOICE Narrative Touchstones of the Storied Perimenopausal Health Identity Reaching Out - Interpersonal Narratives of the Perimenopausal Health Identity Stories of Societal Health - The Impact of Narrated Positional, Situated and Ideological Health Representation PART III: PRAXIS Identity Actions: Bringing about Social Change References
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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