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dc.contributor.author | Niehaus, I | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-14T13:38:20Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-14T13:38:20Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 36(2), 327-347, 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-076X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11013-012-9258-y | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8653 | - |
dc.description | This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-012-9258-y. Copyright @ Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Durkheim’s classical theory of suicide rates being a negative index of social solidarity downplays the salience of gendered concerns in suicide. But gendered inequalities have had a negative impact: worldwide significantly more men than women perpetrate fatal suicides. Drawing on narratives of 52 fatal suicides in Bushbuckridge, South Africa, this article suggests that Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘symbolic violence’ and ‘masculine domination’ provide a more appropriate framework for understanding this paradox. I show that the thwarting of investments in dominant masculine positions have been the major precursor to suicides by men. Men tended to take their own lives as a means of escape. By contrast, women perpetrated suicide to protest against the miserable consequences of being dominated by men. However, contra the assumption of Bourdieu’s concept of ‘habitus’, the narrators of suicide stories did reflect critically upon gender constructs. | en_US |
dc.language | English | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
dc.subject | Suicide | en_US |
dc.subject | Gender | en_US |
dc.subject | Masculine domination | en_US |
dc.subject | Bushbuckridge | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.title | Gendered endings: Narratives of male and female suicides in the South African Lowveld | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-012-9258-y | - |
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pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/Brunel Business School - URCs and Groups | - |
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pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups/Brunel Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups/Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology | - |
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