Gendering Women : Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse

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...

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Main Author: Clisby, Suzanne (auth)
Other Authors: Holdsworth, Julia (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Bristol, UK 2014
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