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Women's Health
Contemporary International Perspectives
Jane M. Ussher (Edited by)
9781854333087, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 29 January 2000
532 pages
25 x 20 x 1.5 cm, 0.936 kg
'Brillant! This exciting collection should be on the bookshelf and reading list of everyone concerned with women's health issues. It can only be hoped that the ground-breaking work presented here will be as widely read and taught as it richly deserves to be.' Professor Valerie Walkerdine, Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia. 'This volume provides a comprehensive and confident treatment of this vast and vital topic ... In this book the psychology of women's health has come of age.' Dr Wendy Hollway, School of Psychology, University of Leeds
Covering the lifespan of women from puberty to old age, this comprehensive collection provides ground-breaking research and theory that challenges current conceptions of women's health and illustrates the diversity of approaches in this burgeoning field. The interdisciplinary angle of the book will appeal to a wide-ranging readership and includes detailed commentaries on key topics such as anorexia nervosa, depression, women and cancer, sexual abuse, disability, exercise, body image, pregnancy, sexual violence and drug use.
List of contributors x Preface xx Acknowledgements xx Introduction Women’s health: Contemporary concerns 1 Section One: An Overview of Critical Issues in Women’s Health 1 Psychology of women’s health: A critique 26 2 Qualitative methods and women’s health research 40 3 Choosing a life span developmental orientation 50 Section Two: Young Women’s Health 4 Young Asian women and self-harm 59 5 Girls on “E”: Social problem or social panic? 69 6 Women and substance abuse: Problems of visibility and empowerment 76 7 Young lesbians and mental health: The closet is a depressing place to be 83 8 Femininity as a barrier to positive sexual health for adolescent girls 93 Section Three: Sexuality and Sexual Health 9 ‘I couldn’t imagine having sex with anyone else’ Young women’s experience of trustworthiness in heterosexual relationships 105 10 Reclaiming women’s sexual agency 114 11 The social construction of women’s sexuality: The dangers of pharmaceutical industry interest 124 12 Rape: Cultural definitions and health outcomes 129 13 Sexual assault and domestic violence: Implications for health workers 143 14 Naming abuse and constructing identities 154 15 Sexual harassment and stress: How women cope with unwanted sexual attention 160 16 Women’s sexual health: An overview 172 17 Contraception choice: A biopsychosocial perspective 180 18 Menopause and sexuality 190 19 Living on the edge: Women with learning disabilities 196 Section Four: Physical Health and Illness 20 Women living with HIV in Britain 204 21 Gynaecological cancer 218 22 Cervical screening 224 23 Breast cancer: A feminist perspective 230 24 Partner support for women with breast cancer: A process analysis approach 237 25 Chronic pelvic pain 244 26 Women and somatic distress 249 Section Five: Reproductive Health 27 ‘PMS research: Balancing the personal with the political’ 255 28 What does systems theory have to do with premenstrual complaints? 266 29 Menstrual cycle and eating behavior 271 30 Hormones and behavior: Cognition, menstruation and menopause 278 31 Sex hormones as biocultural actors: Rethinking biology, sexual difference and health 283 32 Reproduction: A critical analysis 290 33 Pregnancy: A healthy state? 296 34 Screening: A critique 302 35 Childbirth 307 36 Motherhood and mothering 312 37 Competing explanations of postpartum depression: What are the benefits to women? 320 38 Deconstructing ‘Hysterectomized Women’: A materio-discursive approach 329 39 The experience of abortion: A contextualist view 339 Section Six: Bodies and Body Image 40 Body image 356 41 Anorexia nervosa 363 42 Looking good and feeling good: Why do fewer women than men exercise? 372 43 Gender, culture and eating disorders 379 44 Women with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) 387 45 Transgender issues 394 Section Seven: Mental Health 46 Understanding depression in women: Limitations of mainstream approaches and a material-discursive alternative 405 47 Women’s narratives of recovery from disabling mental health problems: A bicultural project from Aotearoa/New Zealand 415 48 Women, stress and work: Exploring the boundaries 423 49 The socio-political context of abortion and its relationship to women’s mental health 431 50 Women and psychosis 440 51 Women and dementia: From Stigma towards celebrations 447 52 The experience of childhood sexual abuse: A psychological perspective of adult female survivors in terms of their personal accounts, therapy, and growth 455 53 Psychodynamic psychotherapy 461 54 Self-psychology 465 Section Eight: The Health of Older Women 55 Representations of menopause and women at midlife 470 56 Psychological well-being in aging women 476 57 The paradox of older women’s health 485 58 Working with older women: Developments in clinical psychology 489 Index 497
Jane M. Ussher
Christina Lee
Michael Murray and Kerry Chamberlain
Sheila Greene
Harriette Marshall and Anjum Yazdani
Maria Pini
Helen Keane
Julie Mooney-Somers and Jane Ussher
Deborah L. Tolman
Niamh Stephenson, Susan Kippax and June Crawford
Lynne Segal
Leonore Tiefer
Nancy Felipe Russo, Mary P. Koss and Luciana Ramos Lira
Sue Lees
Rosaleen Croghan and Dorothy Miell
Alison Thomas
Sylvia Smith
Beth Alder
Lorraine Dennerstein
Jan Burns
Corinne Squire
Marian Pitts and Eleanor Bradley
Julie Fish and Sue Wilkinson
Sue Wilkinson
Nancy Pistrang
Marian Pitts, Linda McGowan and David Clark Carter
Annemarie Kolk
Jacqueline Reilly
Wendy Vanselow
Louise Dye
John T. E. Richardson
Celia Roberts
Carol A. Morse
Harriet Gross
Maeve Ennis
Jane J. Weaver
Anne Woollett and Harriette Marshall
Paula Nicolson
Pippa Dell
Mary Boyle
Sarah Grogan
Helen Malson
Precilla Y. L. Choi
Mervat Nasser
Celia Kitzinger
Louise K. Newman
Janet M. Stoppard
Hilary Lapsley, Linda Waimarie Nikora and Rosanne Black
Rebecca Lawthom
Jean Denious and Nancy Felipe Russo
Emmanuelle Peters
Kate Allen
Christine D. Baker
Janet Sayers
Anna Gibbs
Antonia C. Lyons and Christine Griffin
Linda Gannon
Rosemary Leonard and Ailsa Burns
Frances J. Baty
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
