Discrimination and Women’s Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Control

Sex Roles ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 192-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura J. Landry ◽  
Andrea E. Mercurio
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Women’S Mental Health ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Women's Mental Health

scholarly journals Gender discrimination, victimisation and women's mental health

2018 ◽  
Vol 213 (6) ◽  
pp. 682-684
Author(s):  
Georgina M. Hosang ◽  
Kamaldeep Bhui
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Women’S Mental Health ◽  
Women's Mental Health ◽  
The Impact

SummaryGender inequality and discrimination, as well as violence and victimisation towards women, have recently hit the headlines creating a media furore. We provide a timely discussion surrounding the impact of these issues on women's mental health and a discussion of the role of psychiatry in this context.Declaration of interestK.B. is the editor for the British Journal of Psychiatry but has not played a role in the decision to accept this editorial for publication in this journal. G.H. has no conflict of interest to declare.

scholarly journals Women, ‘madness’ and exercise

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jane Hardes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Women’S Mental Health ◽  
Women's Mental Health ◽  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Exercise Promotion

The positive relationship between exercise and mental health is often taken for granted in today’s society, despite the lack of academic literature evidencing this symbiosis. Gender is considered a significant determinant in a number of mental health diagnoses. Indeed, women are considered twice as likely as men to experience the most pervasive mental health condition, depression. Exercise for women’s mental health is promoted through various macrolevel charity, as well as microlevel, campaigns that influence government healthcare policy and National Health Service guidelines. Indeed, ‘exercise prescriptions’ in the treatment of depression is not uncommon. Yet, this link between exercise as a treatment for women’s mental health has not always been so pervasive. In fact, an examination of asylum reports and medical journals from the late 19th century highlights a significant shift in attitude towards the role of exercise in the treatment of women’s emotional states and mental health. This paper specifically examines how this treatment of women’s mental health through exercise has moved from what might be regarded as a focus on exercise as a ‘cause’ of women’s mental ailments to exercise promoted as a ‘cure’. Unpacking the changing medical attitudes towards exercise for women in line with larger sociopolitical and historic contexts reveals that while this shift towards exercise promotion might prima facie appear as a less essentialist view of women and their mental and physical states, it inevitably remains tied to larger policy and governance agendas. New modes of exercise ‘treatment’ for women’s mental health are not politically neutral and, thus, what appear to emerge as forms of liberation are, in actuality, subtler forms of regulation.

Black women's mental health: Role of racial microaggressions and macroaggressions

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxanne A. Donovan ◽  
Jacqueline Bennett ◽  
David Galban ◽  
Shaina Felicie ◽  
Brandun Watson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Racial Microaggressions ◽  
Women’S Mental Health ◽  
Women's Mental Health

The role of an endocrinologist in a women's mental health clinic

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Caroline Thew ◽  
Cindy Yu ◽  
Michaela Corr ◽  
Jayashri Kulkarni
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Mental Health Clinic ◽  
Women’S Mental Health ◽  
Women's Mental Health
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