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Engendering stress in Australia: the embodiment of social relationships

Whittaker, Andrea; Connor, Linda Helen

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This study draws on data from an ethnographic study of health and illness in a suburb of a regional city of southeastern Australia. 'Stress' was a significant emergent theme in one-third of 111 semi-structured interviews, as well as focus groups and informal conversation. The researchers were able to construct a 'lay epidemiology' in which stress was important in residents' understandings of the causes and symptoms of a range of health problems. The paper explores the different ways in which...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorWhittaker, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorConnor, Linda Helen
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:13:46Z
dc.identifier.issn0363-0242
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/88280
dc.description.abstractThis study draws on data from an ethnographic study of health and illness in a suburb of a regional city of southeastern Australia. 'Stress' was a significant emergent theme in one-third of 111 semi-structured interviews, as well as focus groups and informal conversation. The researchers were able to construct a 'lay epidemiology' in which stress was important in residents' understandings of the causes and symptoms of a range of health problems. The paper explores the different ways in which discourses of stress articulated the experience of structured gender relations among residents of Oceanpoint within the wider framework of a cultural critique of modernity in relation to the embodied self.
dc.publisherThe Haworth Press
dc.sourceWomen and Health
dc.subjectKeywords: adult; aged; article; Australia; female; health status; human; human experiment; interview; male; mental stress; normal human; social interaction; social status; Australia; Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Surveys; Humans; Incidence;
dc.titleEngendering stress in Australia: the embodiment of social relationships
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.citationvolume28
dc.date.issued1998
local.identifier.absfor169901 - Gender Specific Studies
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub17903
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationWhittaker, Andrea, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationConnor, Linda Helen, University of Newcastle
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage97
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage115
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T08:35:34Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-0032450990
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