Mallon Sharon, Galway Karen, Hughes Lynette, Rondón-Sulbarán Janeet, Leavey Gerard
Health and Social Care, Open University, UK.
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Sociol Health Illn. 2016 May;38(4):662-75. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12399. Epub 2016 Feb 8.
The gender-based nature of suicide-related behaviour is largely accepted. However, studies that report exclusively on female suicides are rare. Here we demonstrate how female suicide has effectively been 'othered' and appears incidental in studies which compare female and male behaviour. We highlight how recent studies of suicide have tended to be dominated by male-only approaches, which increasingly link issues of masculinity with male death by suicide. Drawing on data collected from the general practitioner and coroner's office, we then apply the sociological autopsy approach to a cohort of 78 deaths recorded as suicides in the UK between 2007 and 2009. By focusing on females in isolation from males, we demonstrate that, as in male-only suicide studies, it is similarly possible to draw out issues associated with the feminine identity, which can be linked to death by suicide. We find that bereavement, sexual violence and motherhood could all be linked to the lives and help-seeking of the females who died. In closing, we suggest that a reorientation towards sociological analytic approaches of female suicide may help to produce further reductions in the rate of female death by suicide. A Virtual Abstract of this paper can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0w9KKMFdIQ.
与自杀相关行为的性别特征在很大程度上已被认可。然而，专门报道女性自杀情况的研究却很少见。在此，我们展示了女性自杀是如何在比较男女行为的研究中被有效地“边缘化”且显得无关紧要的。我们强调，近期的自杀研究往往以仅针对男性的方法为主导，这些方法越来越多地将男子气概问题与男性自杀死亡联系起来。利用从全科医生和验尸官办公室收集的数据，我们随后将社会学尸检方法应用于2007年至2009年期间在英国记录为自杀的78例死亡病例的队列。通过单独关注女性，我们证明，与仅针对男性的自杀研究一样，同样有可能找出与女性身份相关的问题，这些问题可能与自杀死亡有关。我们发现，丧亲之痛、性暴力和母亲身份都可能与死亡女性的生活及寻求帮助的行为有关。最后，我们建议，重新转向对女性自杀的社会学分析方法可能有助于进一步降低女性自杀率。本文的虚拟摘要可在以下网址找到：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0w9KKMFdIQ 。
