Women's Mental Health: Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Employment, Poverty, Disability and Gender: A Rights Approach for Women with Disabilities in India, Nepal and Bangladesh....Pages 3-18
The Mental Health of Health Care Workers: A Woman’s Issue?....Pages 19-32
Social and Societal Context of Women’s Mental Health, What Women Want, What They Get: Gap Analysis in Pakistan of Mental Health Services, Polices and Research....Pages 33-50
Perspectives on Violence Against Women: Social, Health, and Societal Consequences of Inter-partner Violence....Pages 51-66
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Stress, Social Support, and Depression in Arab Muslim Immigrant Women in the Detroit Area of the USA....Pages 69-81
Social Factors Affecting the Well-Being and Mental Health of Elderly Iranian Immigrant Women in Canada....Pages 83-95
The Resettlement Blues: The Role of Social Support in Newcomer Women’s Mental Health....Pages 97-109
Reflections on Current Societal and Social Context of Women’s Mental Health in Italy....Pages 111-125
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Women’s Benzodiazepine Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Approach....Pages 129-143
Unrecoverable? Prescriptions and Possibilities for Eating Disorder Recovery....Pages 145-160
Impact of Gender-Based Aggression on Women’s Mental Health in Portugal....Pages 161-170
Somatization as a Major Mode of Expression of Psychological Distress in Familial and Interpersonal Relationships Among Iranian Women....Pages 171-182
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Mental Health and Resilience of Young African Women Refugees in Urban Context (Abidjan—Ivory Coast and Dakar—Senegal)....Pages 185-200
Mental Health in Non-Korean Women Residing in South Korea Following Marriage to Korean Men: Literature Review....Pages 201-215
The Gender Gap in Mental Health: Immigrants in Switzerland....Pages 217-231
Focusing on Resilience in Canadian Immigrant Mothers’ Mental Health....Pages 233-245
Reinventing Myself: A Search for Identity as an Immigrant Woman in My Journey from Brazil to Canada....Pages 247-260
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Women Living with Homelessness: They Are (Almost) Invisible....Pages 263-276
Exploring Women’s Mental Health at the Intersections of Aging, Racialization, and Low Socioeconomic Status....Pages 277-288
The Social Construction of Mental Health Inequities Experienced by Mothers Who Are Socioeconomically Disadvantaged During Early Motherhood: A Canadian Perspective....Pages 289-307
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Intersecting Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors in Black Mothers Resilience Building Following Loss to Gun Violence in Canada....Pages 311-325
Antenatal Depression in Immigrant Women: A Culturally Sensitive Prevention Program in Geneva (Switzerland)....Pages 327-342
Community Resilience and Community Interventions for Post-Natal Depression: Reflecting on Maternal Mental Health in Rwanda....Pages 343-356
Mothering Bereaved Children After Perinatal Death: Implications for Women’s and Children’s Mental Health in Canada....Pages 357-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-390