Mental Health from a Gender Perspective

The gender perspective is largely lacking in the discourse on mental health in India while the debate on women's issues rarely incorporates this important topic. Bringing together original contributions from a variety of perspectives, including sociology, anthropology, literature and media studies, this volume will greatly assist a holistic understanding of issues relating to the mental health of Indian women.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Gender and Mental Health - Bhargavi V Davar
Inter-disciplinary Perspectives
Mental Health of Indian women - Ajita Chakraborty
A Field Experience
Gender Issues in Mental Health - Anisha Shah
A Clinical Psychology Perspective
From the Personal to the Collective - U Vindhya
Psychological//Feminist Issues of Mental health
Further Considerations on Women and Mental Health - Sasheej Hegde
PART TWO: THE BODY, REPRODUCTION AND MENTAL HEALTH
The Interface Between Psychiatry and Women's Reproductive Health - Prabha S Chandra
Gynaecological Morbidity and the Common Mental Disorders in Low-Income Urban Women in Mumbai - Surinder K P Jaswal
The Female Body as the Battleground of Meaning - Janet Chawla and Sarah Pinto
The Female Body of Possession - Kalpana Ram
A feminist Perspective on Rural Tamil Women's Experiences
PART THREE:VIOLENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH
The Unsafe Nest - Rajalakshmi Sriram and Sudipta Mukherjee
Analysing and Treating the Roots and Reaches of Marital Violence
Disclosure and Child Sexual Abuse - L Kavitha Vijayalakshmi and Shekhar Seshadri
Content Analysis of Written Narratives of Disclosure
Child Sexual Abuse and Social Factors Preventing Disclosure - Rinchin and Shubhada Maitra
Adolescent Girls' Narratives
Sexual Violence and Mental Health - Kavita Panjabi
Confronting the Paradox of the "Guilty" Victim
Inscribing Madness - Jayasree Kalathil
Another Reading of The Yellow Wallpaper and The Bell Jar
PART FOUR:WOMEN, SOCIETY AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Lay and Medical Diagnoses of the Normative Construction of Femininity - Renu Addlakha
Women and the Law on Unsoundness of Mind - Amita Dhanda
The Media and Women's Mental Health - Ammu Joseph

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