Understanding Depression: Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches

By J. Stoppard. 2000

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Part I: Introduction. Depression: a gendered problem. What is depression? Definitional debates. Part II: Explaining Depression in women: mainstream frameworks. Looking for sources of depression within person environment interactions: diathesis-stress models. Depression and women's psychology: susceptibility or specifity? Social Models of depression: sources of adversity and stress in women's lives. Women's bodies, women's lives and depression: exploring material-discursive approaches. Part III: Embodied lives: understanding depression in women in context. Depression in adolescence: negotiating identities in a girl-poisoning culture. Women's lives and depression: marriage and motherhood. Women and agining: depression in midlife and old age. Part IV: Implications for theory and practise: feminist socil constructionist approaches. Women overcoming depression: coping, treatment and politics. Why new perspectives are needed for understanding depression in women.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

• Telling stories without the words: ‘Tightrope talk’ in women’s accounts of coming to live well after rape or depression (2011, unknown): “Both of these experiences are, at least in part, products of patriarchy that cannot be understood without careful analyses of social and political contexts (Anderson and Doherty, 2008; Burstow, 2003; Gavey, 2005; Herman, 1992; Jack, 1991; Stoppard, 2000; Ussher, 2006, 2010).”
• The DSM and its lure of legitimacy (2013, unknown): “This position highlights the inextricable link between material reality and symbolic, discursive meaning, conceptualizing experience as both ‘embodied and social, material and discursive’ (Stoppard, 2000: 211).”
• Constructing a Non-depressed Self: Women’s Accounts of Recovery from Depression (2006, unknown): “Such discourses ‘both dovetail with and support family and societal arrangements in which women perform most of the work of caring, and at the same time place the needs of others ahead of their own’ (Stoppard, 2000: 18).”
• Supermum, superwife, supereverything: performing femininity in the transition to motherhood (2005, unknown): “For example, marriage and motherhood are central to femininity and are, therefore, a resource for women in constructing feminine identities as well as offering positive social and material rewards (Stoppard, 2000).”