You Have to Show Strength: An Exploration of Gender, Race, and Depression  

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Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Gender and society; vol. 21 no. 01 (Feb. 2007), page 28-51.
Topik: Black women; gender; depression; race; voice
Fulltext: 28.pdf (124.19KB)

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Investigating the possible overlap between depressed and presumably strong Black women, this article maintains that women’s experiences of depression are both gendered and raced. A review of clinical and popular literatures examining Black women’s experiences of depression as well as findings from an interview study with a nonclinical sample of 44 Black women suggest that the discourse of being strong may normalize a distressinducing level of selflessness and powerlessness among such women. Implications of this study include the need to consider the racially specific ways in which women are placed at risk for and experience depression.

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