Women's Mental Health Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society [Paperback]

This book focuses on the social and societal context of women's mental health. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, it pays particular attention to how women's mental health is experienced at the personal level, yet it is influenced by their relationships and interacts with the larger societal context (such as prevailing gender equality policies, income distribution, role burden, peace and security). Specific attention is given to the positive aspects of women's mental health (such as agency, resilience) and how womens personal relations across diverse domains (such as family, work, neighbourhoods) are constructed and influenced by, and in turn influence, broader societal structures/ policies/ opportunities.?A unique feature of this book is that, at the end of each chapter, there is a Response section written by a non-academic such as a community member, practitioner or policy maker in which the invited authors respond to the chapter texts in the form of narrative, poetry, and/or prose, according to their various backgrounds, interests, and experiences.Part I: Structural Determinants of Womens Mental Health.- Employment, Poverty, Disability and Gender: A Rights Approach for Women with Disabilities in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.- The Mental Health of Health Care Workers  A Womans Issue?.- What women want, what they get. Gap analysis in Pakistan of mental health services, polices, and research.- Perspectives on Violence Against Women: Social, Health, and Societal Consequences of Inter-Partner Violence.- Part II: Community, Social Support, and Womens Mental Health.- Stress, Social Support and Depression in Arab Muslim Immigrant Women in the Detroit Area of the United States.- Social Factors Affecting the Well-being and Mental Health of Elderly Iranian Immigrant Women in Canada.- The Resettlement Blues: The Role of Social Support in Newcomer Womens Mental Health.- Reflections on current societal and social context of womens mental heallã"