Katrina Jaworski

The Gender of Suicide

Knowledge Production, Theory and Suicidology. Katrina Jaworski

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781409441410
• ISBN-10: 1409441415
• Artikelnr.: 41244617

Autorenporträt

Katrina Jaworski is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Understanding suicide through gender: an introduction
The construction of knowledge of suicide and gender in suicidology
Performative knowledge: re-reading gender in suicide
Durkheim's social recognition of gender in Suicide
'Fact-finding exercises': the coroner, suicide and gender
'What it means to see'
reading gender in medical examinations of suicide
The visibility of difference: gender and suicide in psy-knowledge
Intriguing events, spectacular deaths
What now? Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index.