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Dolan, Alan (2014) 'Men give in to chips and beer too easily': How working-class men make sense of gender differences in health. Health : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, Volume 18 (Number 2). pp. 146-162. doi:10.1177/1363459313488004 ISSN 1363-4593.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459313488004
Abstract
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 differently impact men's health compared to women. A common theme underpinning their explanations was the ways in which men and women were located within two distinct gender categories. These characterisations were used to explain why health-damaging beliefs and behaviours were more prevalent among men and also why men were better suited for certain kinds of jobs, albeit with potential costs to their health. Men also believed that women were protected from the damaging physical and emotional impact of manual employment because of their primary role within the home and because they were less emotionally robust, which required men to shield women from the stresses they experienced. However, men's emotional withdrawal can also be viewed as another example of how men use whatever resources are available to achieve and maintain dominance over women. Finally, the article demonstrates how a gender- and class-based approach can capture the impact of men's health-related practices alongside the broader cultural and structural influences on men's health.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Other > Centre for Lifelong Learning Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sex differences, Sex factors in disease -- Great Britain, Sex differences (Psychology), Identity (Psychology) , Men -- Identity, Health behavior -- Great Britain, Health attitudes -- Great Britain, Working class -- Great Britain, Working class -- Nutrition -- Great Britain | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Health : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 1363-4593 | ||||||
Official Date: | 27 February 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 18 | ||||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 146-162 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1363459313488004 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 December 2015 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 December 2015 |
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