{"id":1655,"date":"2022-01-24T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/?page_id=1655"},"modified":"2022-02-05T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T14:28:00","slug":"friday-february-18th-2022-11am-dr-leeat-granek-york-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/?page_id=1655","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18TH, 2022, 11AM &#8211; DR. LEEAT GRANEK, YORK UNIVERSITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Grief Dynamics and Gendered Expectations on Expressions of Grief<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this paper, I explore how gender dynamics and gendered expectations on expression of emotion affects the ways in which men and women express and talk about their grief differently in the modern era. I begin by presenting an overview of the ways in which men and women have historically been expected to show their grief and situate these norms within the cultural and historical time period in which these norms arose.<\/p>\n<p>I follow by providing an analysis on todays \u2018culture of grief\u2019 as situated within our political, cultural, and social context, focusing specifically on the pathologization of grief.\u00a0Using research drawn from a large bereaved sample (more than 8000 participants), I present data on phenomenological expressions of grief and juxtapose these reports with contemporary definitions of pathological grief. This research illustrates the profound disjuncture between people\u2019s everyday embodied experiences of grief and flawed psychological notions of what is deemed to be \u2018normal\u2019 and \u2018acceptable\u2019 expressions of this affect. I suggest that like in every other historical era, gendered expressions of grief intersect with, and are affected by psychological norms around expressions of grief.\u00a0 Within this contemporary, psychological, gendered culture, I argue that the recent historical trend to pathologize grief disproportionally affects women as they are over diagnosed with bereavement related disorders such as complicated grief and clinical depression when compared to men. This over diagnosis is a result of many individual and social factors that are situated in gender inequalities, but are also influenced by the contemporary psychological need to \u2018control\u2019 \u2018predict\u2019 and \u2018manage\u2019 grief.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I \u00a0conclude with presenting an alternative narrative on women\u2019s grief as a political force towards social justice. Rather than seeing women\u2019s expressions of grief within a pathology paradigm \u2013 I present global stories of women\u2019s grief being harnessed into political activism.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/yorku.zoom.us\/j\/92487608952?pwd=bWZ1Uks5Wmt2ZllPZnV4ajczT2U0QT09\">https:\/\/yorku.zoom.us\/j\/92487608952?pwd=bWZ1Uks5Wmt2ZllPZnV4ajczT2U0QT09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grief Dynamics and Gendered Expectations on Expressions of Grief In this paper, I explore how gender dynamics and gendered expectations on expression of emotion affects the ways in which men and women express and talk about their grief differently in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29800,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}