TY - BOOK AU - Clisby,Suzanne AU - Holdsworth,Julia TI - Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse SN - 9781847426772 PB - Bristol University Press KW - Social Science / Gender Studies KW - bisacsh KW - Social sciences KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - An account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women's life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman - in family life, education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence - both enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The challenges to women's mental wellbeing cut across age and class differences and have profound impacts on the material conditions of women's lives throughout the life course. This is in turn a driver of inequality that is often under-recognised in mainstream policy UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8a6bf1e0-bfd6-4ea9-b56b-baecae4a5ba0 ER -