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Mental illness and gender - cultural perspectives, 15 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-04-08

Swedish name: Psykisk ohälsa och kön - kulturella perspektiv
This syllabus is valid: 2011-09-05 valid to 2013-09-01 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Syllabus for courses starting between 2011-09-05 and 2013-09-01
Course code: 1ET026
Credit points: 15
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Ethnology: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Literature

Valid from: 2011 week 36

Busfield Joan
Introduction: rethinking the sociology of mental health
Included in:
Sociology of health & illness[Elektronisk resurs].
Oxford : Blackwell : 1979- :
Mandatory

Hallerstedt Gunilla
Diagnosens makt : om kunskap, pengar och lidande
Göteborg : Daidalos : 2006 : 128 s. :
ISBN: 91-7173-238-1
Mandatory
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Johannisson Karin
Den mörka kontinenten : kvinnan, medicinen och fin-de-siècle
Stockholm : Norstedt : 1994 : 320 s. :
ISBN: 91-1-939272-9
Mandatory
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Showalter Elaine
The female malady : women, madness and English culture 1830-1980
London : Virago : 1987 : xii, 308 s. :
ISBN: 0-86068-869-0 (pbk)
Mandatory
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Ussher Jane M.
The madness of women : myth and experience
London : Routledge : 2011. : xi, 316 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-415-33927-8 (hb)
Mandatory
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Gender in the Prozac nation: popular discourse and productive femininity
Blum Linda, Stracuzzi Nena F
Included in:
Gender & society[Elektronisk resurs]b published in association with Sociologists for Women in Society
Thousand Oaks, Ca : Sage : 2000- :
Mandatory

Defining normal: constructions of race and gender in the DSM-IV casebook.
Cermele Jill A, Daniels Sharon, Anderson Kristin L
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : Sage : 1999- : 229-247 pages
Mandatory

Johansson Anna
Självskada : en etnologisk studie av mening och identitet i berättelser om skärande
Umeå : H:ström Text & Kultur : 2010 : 308 s. :
ISBN: 91-7327-129-2
Mandatory
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Lundén Mia Marie
När kvinnor tar slut och män går in i väggen. Hur utbrändhet presenteras i medierna.
Included in:
Kulturella perspektiv
Umeå : Föreningen Kulturella perspektiv : 1992- :
Mandatory

Men's accounts of depression: Reconstructing or resisting hegemonic masculinity?
Emslie C, Ridge D, Ziebland S, Hunt K
Included in:
Social science & medicine.
Oxford,c 1982- : 1982- : 2246-2257 pages
Mandatory

The social construction of gender and its influence on suicide: a review of the literature
Payne Sarah, Swami Viren, Stanistreet Debbi L.
Included in:
Journal of Men's Health
[Shannon, Ireland] : Elsevier : 23-35 pages
Mandatory

Women at the margins: a critique of the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.
Shaw Clare, Proctor Gillian
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : Sage : 1999- : 483-490 pages
Mandatory

Situating sadness : women and depression in social context
Stoppard Janet M.d 1945-0 304006, McMullen Linda M.
New York : New York University Press : 2003. : 228 s. :
ISBN: 0-8147-9800-4 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Meurling Birgitta
Varför flickor? : ideal, självbilder och ätstörningar
Lund : Studentlitteratur : 2003 : 167, [1] s. :
ISBN: 91-44-03053-3
Mandatory
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