This book focuses on the social and societal context of women's mental health. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, it pays particular attention to how women's mental health is experienced at the personal level, yet it is influenced by their relationships and interacts with the larger societal context (such as prevailing gender equality policies, income distribution, role burden, peace and security). Specific attention is given to the positive aspects of women's mental health (such as agency, resilience) and how women's personal relations across diverse domains (such as family, work, neighbourhoods) are constructed and influenced by, and in turn influence, broader societal structures/ policies/ opportunities. A unique feature of this book is that, at the end of each chapter, there is a Response section written by a non-academic such as a community member, practitioner or policy maker in which the invited authors respond to the chapter texts in the form of narrative, poetry, and/or prose, according to their various backgrounds, interests, and experiences.

Draws from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship Addresses social and societal factors, rather than pathologies or deficits in individuals Emphasizes positive aspects of women's mental health: resilience, resistance, agency Each chapter includes an implications section relating to policy, practice, or research

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Dr. Khanlou is the women's health research chair in mental health in the Faculty of Health at York University and an associate professor in its School of Nursing. Professor Khanlou's clinical background is in psychiatric nursing. Her overall program of research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of community-based mental health promotion in general, and mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings in particular. Dr. Khanlou was the 2011-2013 co-director of the Ontario Multicultural Health Applied Research Network. She is founder of the International Network on Youth Integration, an international network for knowledge exchange and collaboration on youth. Dr. Pilkington is associate professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Canada, where she has been a faculty member since 1999. From 2009 to 2012 she served as the School's first associate director for research and graduate education, and sheis currently the inaugural coordinator for an interdisciplinary BA and BSc program in global health. Dr. Pilkington's clinical background is in maternal-newborn and women's health. Current research includes community-based studies with youth and sole support mothers living in a marginalized neighbourhood, with a focus on resilience, health and well-being.

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This book analyzes systemic problems affecting women's mental health--social inequities, marginalization, racism, and displacement among them--and proposes holistic real-world approaches to practice and policy. Women's experiences from around the globe are examined including Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Nepal, Pakistan, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States. Together, the chapters in this book deepen our understanding of the intersections of gender, race, culture, age, class, immigration status, and motherhood. Ongoing issues such as violence against women, maternal depression, eating disorders, and the stressors affecting female health care workers are discussed in familial and societal contexts. Contributors from a range of disciplines also identify relevant mental health assets including resilience, social support, and culturally-based healing, and suggest changes that sectors and systems must make to recognizewomen's diversity and develop and implement appropriate policies and services.

Included in the international and interdisciplinary coverage:

• Structural Determinants of Women's Mental Health
• Community, Social Support, and Women's Mental Health
• Health and Social Services, Resistance, and Women's Mental Health
• Displacement, Migration, Resettlement, and Women's Mental Health
• Poverty, Marginalization, and Women's Mental Health
• Motherhood, Resilience, and Women's Mental Health At a time when barriers to women's well-being are recognized as a global health crisis, Women's Mental Health is a profound source of information for researchers in psychology, public health, and educational policy.

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Part I: Structural Determinants of Women's Mental Health.- Employment, Poverty, Disability and Gender: A Rights Approach for Women with Disabilities in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.- The Mental Health of Health Care Workers A Woman's Issue?.- What women want, what they get. Gap analysis in Pakistan of mental health services, polices, and research.- Perspectives on Violence Against Women: Social, Health, and Societal Consequences of Inter-Partner Violence.- Part II: Community, Social Support, and Women's Mental Health.- Stress, Social Support and Depression in Arab Muslim Immigrant Women in the Detroit Area of the United States.- Social Factors Affecting the Well-being and Mental Health of Elderly Iranian Immigrant Women in Canada.- The Resettlement Blues: The Role of Social Support in Newcomer Women's Mental Health.- Reflections on current societal and social context of women's mental health in Italy.- Part III: Health and Social Services, Resistance, and Women's Mental Health.- Women's Benzodiazepine Abuse: A Psychoanalytic.- Unrecoverable? Prescriptions and Possibilities for Eating Disorder Recovery Approach.- Impact of gender-based aggression on women's mental health in Portugal.- Somatization as a Major Mode of Expression of Psychological Distress in Familial and Interpersonal Relationships among Iranian Women.- Part IV: Displacement, Migration, Resettlement, and Women's Mental Health.- Mental Health and Resilience of Young African Women Refugees in an Urban Context.- Mental Health in Non-Korean Women Residing in South Korea Following Marriage to Korean Men.- The Gender Gap in Mental Health: Immigrants in Switzerland.- Focusing on Resilience in Canadian Immigrant Mothers' Mental Health.- Reinventing myself: a search for identity as an immigrant woman in my journey from Brazil to Canada.- Part V: Poverty, Marginalization, and Women's Mental Health.- Women living with homelessness: They are (almost) invisible.- Exploring women's mental health at the intersections of aging, racialization and low socioeconomic status.- The social construction of mental health inequities experienced by mothers who are socioeconomically disadvantaged during early motherhood: A Canadian Perspective.- Part VI: Motherhood, Resilience, and Women's Mental Health.- Interacting Individual, Social and Cultural Factors in Black Mothers Resilience Building Following Loss to Gun Violence in Canada.- Antenatal Depression in Immigrant Women: A Culturally Sensitive Prevention Program in Geneva (Switzerland).- Community Resilience and Community Interventions for Post-Natal Depression: Reflecting on Maternal Mental Health in Rwanda.- Mothering Bereaved Children after Perinatal Death: Implications for Women's and Children's Mental Health in Canada.