"Out of sight": Sexuality and women with enduring mental illness

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 240-249

  Davison, Joanna ^a   Huntington, Annette ^b  

^a Whitireia Community Polytechnic   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Enduring mental illness; Feminist research; Recovery; Sexuality; Women

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST OF ILLNESS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; GUILT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LESBIAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; LESBIANISM; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPING;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; GUILT; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIALIZATION; STEREOTYPING; WOMEN;

EID: 77955129618     PISSN: 14458330     EISSN: 14470349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2010.00676.x     Document Type: Article

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