A Feminist Eclectic Approach to Sociological Studies of Mental Health and Illness: Transdisciplinarity and Intersectionality.
Drawing on Ritzer's paradigms, this paper proposes a feminist eclectic perspective that classifies and bridges general and feminist approaches in the sociology of mental health and illness. I argue that the classification results show that the sociology of mental health and illness does not have a d...
| Published in: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 40; no. 124/125; pp. 277 - 296 |
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