Citation

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

Affiliation

Richard Stockton State College.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2198130

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.

Language: en