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  • 19 - Well-Being across the Life Course

  • from Part II - The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness
  • Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Tony N. Brown, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    16 November 2009, pp 361-383

  • Summary

    Among the most profound social divisions in our culture is the one we make by gender. Because our social practices are fundamentally gendered, mental health and emotional troubles should also differ for men and women. For some time, however, there have been heated debates over the differences between the mental health of men and women. Some argue that women have more psychopathology than men, and some claim men have more. Others think that both genders suffer equally, but from different maladies. This chapter presents examples of these conflicting positions, examines the evidence for them, and discusses social explanations for disparities by gender. Looking at numerous levels, from macro-level broad sociohistorical forces to micro-level aspects of the self, the chapter explains how social differentiation by gender shapes the psychological problems of men and women.