Title Identity, health and women : a critical social psychological perspective / Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary This book explores the construction of a health identity from the standpoint of women's everyday experiences. It examines personal, interpersonal and societal aspects of construction to reveal an evolving identity that moves away from the often fixed stereotypical models of medical illness towards an axis of illness and wellbeing, and opens up further possibilities for identity reframing and recovery. The final part of the book presents a new model of identity construction framed in women's health identity. Linking with current theoretical thinking about gender, media, health psychology and identity construction, the book brings together a women's health grounded in women's experience and considers the implication of this new model for those investigating, providing and delivering health care Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Health and hygiene -- Psychological aspects Women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects Women -- Identity. Self-perception. Women -- Health and hygiene. Self Concept Women -- psychology Women's Health Social, group or collective psychology. The self, ego, identity, personality. Health psychology. Gender studies: women. Social & cultural anthropology. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Women's Health. Psychology. Women -- Health and hygiene Self-perception Women -- Health and hygiene -- Psychological aspects Women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects Women -- Identity Form Electronic book LC no. 2010027509 ISBN 9780230292512 0230292518 9786612998096 6612998091

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