The gendered landscape of suicide : masculinities, emotions, and cultures / Anne Cleary.
Cleary, Anne, author.
2019
HV6545 .C54 2019
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Title The gendered landscape of suicide : masculinities, emotions, and cultures / Anne Cleary.
Author Cleary, Anne, author.
ISBN 9783030166342 (electronic book)
3030166341 (electronic book)
9783030166335
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-16
Call Number HV6545 .C54 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.28
152.4
Summary This book is an attempt to understand suicide from the perspective of a group of men who decided to take their own lives. Their stories imply that male suicide is not, as frequently portrayed, an impulsive action arising from particular, sex-specific, causes but relates to a cluster of interlinked issues which accumulate over time. These issues were not distinctively male concerns but were connected to gender in that the mens difficulties were exacerbated by the existence of an emotional culture which inhibited males from expressing specific feelings. The prevailing form of masculinity impeded them in developing knowledge of, and speaking about, their emotional needs and from accessing help and this prolonged their suffering and made suicide a possibility. These men produced compelling accounts of their emotional pain which belied notions of male inexpressiveness but the findings point to a link between emotionally constraining cultures and suicidal behaviour for some groups of men.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2019).
Available in Other Form Gendered Landscape of Suicide : Masculinities, Emotions, and Culture.
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Chapter 1 Introduction: The Gendered Landscape of Suicide
Chapter 2 Masculinities, Emotions, and Cultures
Chapter 3 Growing up Male
Chapter 4 The Meaning and Context of Suicidal Action
Chapter 5 Survivors and Casualties
Chapter 6 Conclusions: The Social and Emotional Landscape of Suicide
Chapter 7 Postscript Lessons for Prevention.

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