Identity, Health and Women

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introducing Health and Psychology

   1. Introducing Health and Psychology

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 1-22

3. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Understanding Women’s Health: Health Perspectives

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 25-46

   3. Identity Theory and an Interactive Health Identity

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 47-68

   4. Feminist as Far as Possible — The Feminist Health Identity and Critical Realism

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 69-94

   5. Investigating Women’s Health: The Story So Far

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 95-109

4. Voice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Narrative Touchstones of the Storied Perimenopausal Health Identity

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 113-140

   3. Reaching Out — Interpersonal Narratives of the Perimenopausal Health Identity

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 141-160

   4. Stories of Societal Health — The Impact of Narrated Positional, Situated and Ideological Health Representation

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 161-201

5. Praxis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Identity Actions: Bringing about Social Change

      • Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou

      Pages 205-213

6. Back Matter

   Pages 214-227

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This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented as the book follows the rationale, stories and narrative methodology of the study of a group of women. The final part of the book presents a new model of identity construction framed in women's health identity.

• health
• psychology
• women

"Women's health is traditionally structured around a series of milestones within a reproductive cycle, and women's voices are muted by the plethora of information that saturates society. Christodoulou seeks to remedy this by hearing the voices of women and in so doing she considers the role of health experiences in women's everyday lives. This positioning is both refreshing and powerful." - Community, Work and Family

JACQUELINE ANN CHRISTODOULOU is Chief Executive at the Safety and Reliability Society in Manchester, UK and conducts consultancy work through her company, Social Analysis and Research Services. She is a Chartered Psychologist through the British Psychological Society.

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