Jill Astbury is an Australian researcher in the field of women's mental health. [1]
Astbury is perhaps best known for co-authoring the 1980 book Birth Rites Birth Rights with Judith Lumley. [2] [3] [4]
She also wrote extensively for The Age newspaper throughout the early 1980's, reviewing books and discussing issues pertaining to women. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Astbury was deputy director of the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, a World Health Organisation centre. [9] She left this position to join Victoria University [ when? ] in Melbourne, Australia, as research professor in psychology. Her work focuses on the relationship between gender based violence including sexual violence and gender disparities in mental health including increased rates of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. [1]
In 2008, Astbury was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women for her research into violence against women. [17]
There is interesting material in 'Birth Rites Birth Rights' by Judith Lumley and Jill Astbury (Sphere Books, 1980), which points out...
An Australian book, 'Birth Rites Birth Rights' by Judith Lumley and Jill Astbury (Sphere) also is excellent on this subject.
Speakers will be Joyce Nicholson, author of 'The Heartache of Motherhood'; Judith Lumley and Jill Astbury, co-authors of 'Birth Rites Birth Rights'; and Barbara Wishart
Challenging this assumption is part of the reason why Astbury, the deputy director of the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society at the University of Melbourne, has written a book on women and madness.
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