The study of suicide from a feminist perspective

Crisis. 1990 May;11(1):38-43.

Abstract

The present paper presents a feminist transformation of the study of suicide, following a stage model proposed by Schuster and Van Dyne for the feminist transformation of research in general: (1) invisible women, (2) the search for missing female scholars or suicide, (3) suicidal women as disadvantaged, (4) suicidal women studied on their own terms, and (5) a genuine transformation of the perspectives guiding the field of study. In particular, it has been suggested that a feminist transformation of suicidology would lead us to focus on attempted suicide as the norm while viewing completed suicide as a failed behavior in which the individual inappropriately died.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Gender Identity*
  • Humans
  • Identification, Psychological*
  • Suicide / psychology*
  • Suicide, Attempted / psychology*
  • Women's Rights*