Event Title
Gender, Self-Silencing, and Depression in 13 Countries
Description
Women’s rates of depression are two to six times higher than men’s all over the world, both in industrialized and non-industrialized countries. In this talk, Dana Jack will give an overview of why this might be the case, including a consideration of human rights abuses that affect women in many parts of the globe. She will describe her research on gender and depression in Nepal, using slides to illustrate women’s lives in this country that has been shadowed by the Maoist uprising for the past ten years. Drawing from her recently published book, Silencing the Self Across Cultures which includes research on depression and gender in thirteen countries, she will describe differences and similarities in women’s and men’s depression.
About the Lecturer: Dana Jack, Psychologist and Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Document Type
Event
Start Date
16-2-2011 12:00 PM
End Date
16-2-2011 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Depression in women
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Self-silencing, Depression in women
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Gender, Self-Silencing, and Depression in 13 Countries
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Women’s rates of depression are two to six times higher than men’s all over the world, both in industrialized and non-industrialized countries. In this talk, Dana Jack will give an overview of why this might be the case, including a consideration of human rights abuses that affect women in many parts of the globe. She will describe her research on gender and depression in Nepal, using slides to illustrate women’s lives in this country that has been shadowed by the Maoist uprising for the past ten years. Drawing from her recently published book, Silencing the Self Across Cultures which includes research on depression and gender in thirteen countries, she will describe differences and similarities in women’s and men’s depression.
About the Lecturer: Dana Jack, Psychologist and Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
