Mental health from a gender perspective / edited by Bhargavi V. Davar.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [390]-418) and index.

Machine generated contents note: I -- I -- INTRODUCTION -- I Gender and Mental Health: Inter-disciplinary -- Perspectives -- Bhargavi V. Davar -- II Mental Health of Indian Women: -- A Field Experience -- Ajita Chakraborty -- III Gender Issues in Mental Health: -- A Clinical Psychology Perspective -- Anisha Shah -- IV From the Personal to the Collective: -- Psychological/Feminist Issues of -- Women's Mental Health -- U. Vindhya -- V Further Considerations on Women and -- Mental Health -- Sasheej Hegde -- THE BODY, REPRODUCTION AND MENTAL HEALTH -- VI The Interface between Psychiatry and -- Women's Reproductive Health -- Prabha S. Chandra -- 6 * Mental Health from a Gender Perspective -- VII Gynaecological Morbidity and Common -- Mental Disorders in Low-income Urban -- Women in Mumbai -- Surinder K.P. Jaswal -- VIII The Female Body as the Battleground -- of Meaning -- Janet Chawla and Sarah Pinto -- IX The Female Body of Possession: -- A Feminist Perspective on Rural Tamil -- Women's Experiences -- Kalpana Ram -- VIOLENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH -- X The Unsafe Nest: Analysing and Treating -- the Roots and Reaches of Marital Violence -- Rajalakshmi Sriram and Sudipta Mukherjee -- XI Self-disclosure in Child Sexual Abuse: -- Content Analysis of Written Narratives -- of Disclosure -- L. Kavitha Vijayalakshmi and Shekhar Seshadri -- XII Child Sexual Abuse and Social Factors -- Preventing Disclosure: Adolescent Girls' -- Narratives -- Rinchin and Shubhada Maitra -- XIII Sexual Violence and Mental Health: -- Confronting the Paradox of the -- 'Guilty' Victim -- Kavita Panjabi -- XIV Inscribing Madness: Another Reading of -- the Yellow Wallpaper and the Bell Jar -- Jayasree Kalathil -- WOMEN, SOCIETY AND MENTAL ILLNESS -- XV The Lay and Medical Diagnoses of Psychiatric -- Disorder and the Normative Construction -- of Femininity -- Renu Addlakha -- XVI Women and the Law on Unsoundness of Mind -- Amita Dhanda IXVII The Media and Women's Mental Health -- Ammu Joseph -- References -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.