Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a
critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring …

High male suicide rates are often constructed as evidence for an apparent 'crisis of
masculinity'. Conversely,'crisis of masculinity'has been used to explain differential rates of …

In contemporary social and cultural contexts, suicide is understood as explicitly individual
and a deliberate choice and act. This article examines whether the intelligibility of suicide …

In this article we set out the context and provide the theoretical resources for re-thinking
youth suicide as a sociocultural, political, and relational issue. Drawing on recent high …

Understandings of suicidal behavior which contextualize and historicize the experience of
despair, and which privilege subjective meanings, provide important insights into this …

Is men's suicidal behavior different from that of women's? Much research has been devoted
to this question since the late 1980s. Scientific literature refers to it as the" Gender Paradox" …

The gender‐based nature of suicide‐related behaviour is largely accepted. However,
studies that report exclusively on female suicides are rare. Here we demonstrate how female …

Through a thematic analysis of four cases of suicide by young women identified from the
National Coronial Information System, I apply a gendered lens to understanding the ways in …

Traditionally, suicide research has focused on male mortality, with little attention paid to the
female experience of suicide. This means there has been a lack of research examining how …

Aboriginal suicidal behaviours in remote Australia present as very different phenomena to
suicidal behaviours in mainstream Australian society. Multiple suicide threats and …