women and mental health Archives

Improving mental health care for women in prison

Guest Blogger14 September 2018

Being a feminist mental health campaigner means leaving no woman to the fringes of the system, writes Jennifer Richards ...

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Cuts to health and social care will affect women the most

Monica Karpinski15 December 2017

The disproportionate effects of austerity on women have a very real impact on their health, writes Monica Karpinski...

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Pelvic mesh scandal exposes misogyny in medicine

Guest Blogger6 October 2017

A worldwide medical scandal has not only left hundreds of thousands of women in pain but exposed how deeply entrenched misogyny is in medicine, writes Kate Harveston...

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All singing, all dancing, all rather toxic

D H Kelly25 March 2017

D H Kelly enjoys the brilliant comic songs in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend but is disappointed by the show’s treatment of mental ill health and its reliance on toxic heteronormative romantic messages...

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Who is speaking up for women seeking care for mental health?

Guest Blogger4 March 2017

Vulnerable young women are being denied the care they need when it comes to mental health. Emma Hamilton asks: who will speak up for them?...

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Women and mental health

Chloe Miriam8 December 2011

I shall be blogging about women and mental health this month. I'd like to start with a vague introduction to the subject. When I was first diagnosed with depres...

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