‘Men give in to chips and beer too easily’: How working-class men make sense of gender differences in health.
This article, based on qualitative research with working-class men, explores men’s perceptions and experiences regarding gender differences in health. It demonstrates how men put forward a range of behavioural/cultural, materialist/structural and psychosocial factors, which were believed to differen...
| Published in: | Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness & Medicine Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 146 - 163 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2014
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