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Depression, Oppression, Gender Socialization, Other Pressing Things
It has come to my attention that about twice as many women are depressed as men. So let’s read about it. Here’s an excerpt from an essay by Marwan M. Kazimi on the link between gender and depression (or you can read the whole essay). Personality attributes of girls and boys have been linked to [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Research, Western, achievement, adolescent, anxiety, biological, child, children, cultural lens, dependence, depression, eating disorder, emotionality, fear, gender, gender differences, gender socialization, helplessness, hormone, intelligence, mental health, parental, passivity, peer, personality, psychology, rejection, risk, self-esteem, sex difference, sexual abuse, social, social stigma, societal factors, stereotype, stereotypes, symptom, women, women's studies.
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Notes from an insecure country
Recently, I won some money and decided to visit a friend who is finishing up her semester abroad in Argentina. While, as one mentor of mine in high school put it, “Every woman has a funny relationship with food,” in Argentina, it’s an understatement. Somethingfishy.org, a website about eating disorders, reports that “In Argentina the [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2007 under Argentina, Female Sexuality, Self Objectification, anorexia, armor, bodies, bulimia, catcall, chastity belt, cigarettes, cosmetic surgery, eating disorder, economics, empanada, fat, food, identity, inflation, latin america, lonely planet, machismo, martini, mental health, objectification, physical health, pride, psychology, self acceptance, self-loathing, sex, smoking, south america, standard of beauty, tobacco, women's health.
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