The Gender of Suicide: Knowledge Production, Theory and Suicidology

✍ Scribed by Katrina Jaworski

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge. With attention to Durkheim's founding study of suicide, as well as discourses within sociology, law, medicine, psy-knowledge and newsprint media, this book demonstrates that suicide cannot be understood without understanding how gender shapes it, and without giving explicit attention to the manner in which prevailing claims privilege some interpretations and experiences of suicide above others. Revealing the masculine and masculinist terms in which our current knowledge of suicide is constructed, The Gender of Suicide, explores the relationship between our grasp of suicide and problematic ideas connected to the body, agency, violence, race and sexuality. As such, it will appeal to sociologists and social theorists, as well as scholars of cultural studies, philosophy, law and psychology.

✦ Subjects

Suicide Death Grief Self Help Reference Almanacs Yearbooks Atlases Maps Careers Catalogs Directories Consumer Guides Dictionaries Thesauruses Encyclopedias Subject English as a Second Language Etiquette Foreign Study Genealogy Quotations Survival Emergency Preparedness Test Preparation Words Grammar Writing Research Publishing General Gender Studies Social Sciences Politics Medicine Sociology Psychology Clinical Cognitive Developmental Neuropsychology Psychopathology Psychotherapy New Used Renta