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Fecha
2012-03-23
Derechos de acceso
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Título de la revista
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Título del volumen
Editorial
Wiley
Citas
Resumen
This study analyses different perceptions by women and men, from different social backgrounds and ages, regarding their health, vulnerability and coping with illness, and describes the main models provided by both sexes to explain determinants for gender inequalities in health. The qualitative study involved in-depth interviews with women and men resident in Granada (Spain). The women rated their health worse than men, associating it with feelings of exhaustion. However, men tended to overrate their health, hiding their problems behind the ‘tough guy’ stereotype associated with masculinity. Both women and men shared the belief that women are more vulnerable, while men are weaker at coping with illness. The explanatory models offered for this paradox of ‘weak but strong women’ and ‘tough but weak men’ were different for each sex. Men used biological arguments more than women, centred on the female reproductive cycle. Women used more cultural models and identified determinants relating to social stratification, gender roles and power imbalances. In conclusion, gender constructions affect the health perceptions of both women and men at any social level or age. ‘Exhausted’ women and ‘tough’ men should form preferential target groups for intervention to reduce gender inequalities in health.
Descripción
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Wiley in Sociology of Health & Illness 34(6):911-926", available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01440.x
Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo publicado por Wiley en Sociology of Health & Illness 34(6):911-926", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01440.x
Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo publicado por Wiley en Sociology of Health & Illness 34(6):911-926", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01440.x
Categorías UNESCO
Palabras clave
Gender identity, Women’s health, Men’s health, Lay accounts, Qualitative research
Citación
García-Calvente Mª del Mar, Hidalgo-Ruzzante. N., Del Río-Lozano, M., Marcos Marcos, J., Martínez Morante, E., Maroto Navarro, G., Mateo Rodríguez, I., Gil García, E. Exhausted women, tough men: a qualitative study on gender differences in health, vulnerability and coping with illness in Spain. Sociology of Health & Illness 34(6):911-926. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01440.x
Centro
Facultad de Psicología
Departamento
Psicología Social y de las Organizaciones