Identity, Health and Women

JACQUELINE ANN CHRISTODOULOU is Chief Executive at the Safety and Reliability Society in Manchester, UK and conducts consultancy work through her company, Social Analysis and Research Services. She is a Chartered Psychologist through the British Psychological Society.

Foreword by Judith Sixsmith PART I: THEORY Introducing Health and Psychology Understanding Women's Health: Health Perspectives Identity Theory and an Interactive Health Identity Feminist as far as Possible - The Feminist Health Identity and Critical Realism Investigating Women's Health: The Story so Far PART II: VOICE Narrative Touchstones of the Storied Perimenopausal Health Identity Reaching Out - Interpersonal Narratives of the Perimenopausal Health Identity Stories of Societal Health - The Impact of Narrated Positional, Situated and Ideological Health Representation PART III: PRAXIS Identity Actions: Bringing about Social Change References