Acknowledgements

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-ix

Foreword

pp x-xi

Introduction: being female

pp xii-xiv

Part I - Women in perspective

pp 1-2

1 - The history of the ‘female mind’

pp 3-13

2 - Gender-informed responses to women's distress

pp 14-18

3 - Female sexuality

pp 19-22

4 - Growing up female

pp 23-28

Part II - Women and society

pp 29-30

5 - Poverty, exclusion, debt and women

pp 31-37

6 - Arranged marriage

pp 38-40

7 - Girls at risk

pp 41-50

8 - Domestic abuse

pp 51-56

9 - Women and the criminal justice system

pp 57-62

Part III - Women and their environment

pp 63-64

10 - Emotional well-being and staying well

pp 65-70

11 - Sensitive motherhood

pp 71-76

12 - Religion and spirituality

pp 77-82

13 - Linking physical and mental health in women

pp 83-87

14 - Obesity

pp 88-90

15 - Women and sleep

pp 91-97

16 - Women and pain

pp 98-103

17 - Bereavement, loss and grief

pp 104-110

Part IV - Women and specific disorders

pp 111-112

18 - Depression and other mood disorders

pp 113-122

19 - Anxiety disorders

pp 123-127

20 - Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder

pp 128-134

21 - The dangers of rumination

pp 135-138