Description: No dust jacket. Little or no signs of use to pages. Cover with minor wear and light corner bumping. OCR scan: PREFACE MTANY RESEARCH findings in the study of suicide are hard toreplicate. One published study may find a particular phenomenon,while another may fail to find the same phemonenon or may produce re-sults that qualifies the earlier conclusion.One of the clearest phenomenon in suicidal behavior is the differencein the suicidal behavior of the sexes. Males complete suicide at a higherrate than females while females attempt suicide at a higher rate thanmales. This difference has been known for centuries and has been con-sistently reported. An early explanation was that women used less lethalmethods for suicide than men, but this is easily shown not to be the soleanswer for, within any one method, men die more and women survivemore.Since the roles of the two sexes differ greatly in most societies andsince men and women differ in many psychological characteristics, it isof interest also to inquire whether the meaning of suicide for women andthe motivation for suicide differ from those of men.The present book focuses upon these interesting and important is-sues. The editor and the contributing authors have examined suicidalbehavior in women from a variety of perspectives-anthropological,physiological, psychological, and sociological. We cannot tie the conclu-sions of each chapter together into a neat theoretical package, but wecan illustrate the diversity of the possible answers to the problem of whywomen kill themselves.In addition, to illustrate the more academic discussions of suicidalbehavior in women, we have included two case studies- Virginia Woolfwho killed herself and Dorothy Parker who early in her life attemptedsuicide. Obviously, two women, even these two women, cannot be rep-resentative of all or even most women. However, these two women haveinterested people, and detailed biographies have appeared on them, ix
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Publication Year: 1988
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Why Women Kill Themselves
Author: David Lester
Publisher: Charles C Thomas
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Family, Parenting & Relations, Health, Treatments & Medicine, Historical, History, Mind, Body & Spirit, Parapsychology, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology & Help, Religious & Spiritual, Sociology
Topic: Suicide
