Gender and Mental Health Combining Theory and Practice
This book focuses on various aspects of gender and mental health. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, it summarizes the complex intertwining of illness and culture in the context of the rising frequency of mental disorders. The book
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Gender and Mental Health Combining Theory and Practice
Gender and Mental Health
Meenu Anand Editor
Gender and Mental Health Combining Theory and Practice
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Editor Meenu Anand Department of Social Work University of Delhi New Delhi, Delhi, India
ISBN 978-981-15-5392-9 ISBN 978-981-15-5393-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5393-6
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This book is dedicated to my father and my late mother who gave me the best and the happiest childhood.
Acknowledgements
The subject of gender has always intrigued me, as a woman and as a feminist scholar. Over the years, during the course of my research and teaching, I developed a passion for exploring gender, its many contours and subthemes. As my life evolved through varied phases, those of happiness and elation, challenges and turmoil, I steadily began to question the very notion of normality, often deeply embedded within the realm of mental health, in academic discourses as well as in societal practices. The inception of this book stemmed from a strong desire to put together an integration of schemas on mental health from an eclectic standpoint. Being a social work educator and a scholar of gender studies, I strongly believe in praxis between theory and practice. Hence, no effort of theorizing a concept can be complete (for me), without the amalgamation of field-based narratives. This book is a humble attempt to bring together the models and approaches on mental health by social work professionals, medical practitioners and academicians along with voices and chronicles from significant grass-roots practitioners/projects. I woul
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