Gender and extreme events: The role of meaning and social support
Wednesday 27th January 2010
12:30 PM -
Location: Queen
Gender and extreme events: The role of meaning and social support will be presented by Dr Blerina Kellezi, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, in the Wolfson Seminar Room of the Queen’s Campus of Durham University in Stockton on Tees on 27 January.
Research concerning the impact of extreme events on health has shown that women are more vulnerable than men to experiences of torture. These differences have been attributed to different behavioral and cognitive responses, type of events experienced or to types of symptoms reported.
Little attention though, has been paid to the meanings attributed to such events by the two. Using a social identity framework, the current work investigates the role of gender identities on the appraisal of the events, and subsequently the impact such appraisal can have on health outcome following the events. An interview study and ethnography study investigated the meanings attributed to a range of extreme events by men and women amongst Kosovo Albanians surviving the armed conflict in 1998-1999.
The findings suggest that in ethnic conflicts, women experience different types of events from men, which have distinctive meaning in terms of their identities.
The differences are also reflected on the consequences following the experience of such events for each gender.
A buffet lunch will be served at 12.30, and the lecture will begin at 1pm. Contact Lynda Boothroyd on l.g.boothroyd@durham.ac.uk for more information.
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