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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]

Biography

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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 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]

Publications

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  • Birth Rites Birth Rights: childbirth alternatives for Australian parents (Thomas Nelson Australia, 1980)[10]
  • Crazy for You: The making of women's madness (Oxford University Press, 1996)[11][12]
  • Mapping a global pandemic : review of current literature on rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment of women (Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, 2000)[13]
  • Women's mental health: an evidence based review (WHO, 2000)[1]
  • Gender disparities in Mental Health (WHO, 2001)[1]
  • Services for victim/survivors of sexual assault : identifying needs, interventions and provision of services in Australia (Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2006)[14]
  • Forced Sex: A Critical Factor in the Sleep Difficulties of Young Australian Women (Violence and Victims, 2011)[15]
  • Violating children’s rights: The psychological impact of sexual abuse in childhood (InPsych 2013, Vol 35)[16]

Recognition

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In 2008, Astbury was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women for her research into violence against women.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "SVRI Coordinating Group". WHO. Archived from the original on 28 December 2004. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  2. ^ Erlich, Rita (22 June 1983). "Immersed in unreality". The Age. p. 17. Retrieved 25 April 2024. There is interesting material in 'Birth Rites Birth Rights' by Judith Lumley and Jill Astbury (Sphere Books, 1980), which points out...
  3. ^ Forster, Deborah (30 September 1983). "Pregnancy loss and how to survive it". The Age. p. 22. Retrieved 25 April 2024. An Australian book, 'Birth Rites Birth Rights' by Judith Lumley and Jill Astbury (Sphere) also is excellent on this subject.
  4. ^ "Motherhood". The Age. 25 July 1984. p. 24. Retrieved 25 April 2024. 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
  5. ^ Astbury, Jill (14 January 1981). "The sexism of science". The Age. p. 13. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  6. ^ Astbury, Jill (6 May 1981). "The men in charge of women's bodies". The Age. p. 20. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  7. ^ Astbury, Jill (1 January 1982). "The baby blues trap". The Age. p. 10. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  8. ^ Astbury, Jill (9 July 1982). "Why not say all men are beasts?". The Age. p. 18. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  9. ^ "Women on the verge of a medical breakthrough". The Age. 16 August 1996. p. 16. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  10. ^ Lumley, Judith; Astbury, Jill (1980). Birth Rites Birth Rights: childbirth alternatives for Australian parents. West Melbourne, Victoria: Thomas Nelson Australia. ISBN 0170055647. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  11. ^ Astbury, Jill (1996). Crazy for you : the making of women's madness. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553768-0. LCCN 96206994. OCLC 35693368.
  12. ^ Smith, Deborah (7 August 1996). "Girl crazy". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 13. Retrieved 25 April 2024. 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.
  13. ^ Bennett, Linda Rae; Astbury, Jill; Manderson, Lenore; Research, Global Forum for Health; Consultation on Sexual Violence against Women (2000 : Melbourne, Australia) (2000). Mapping a global pandemic : review of current literature on rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment of women. Key Centre for Women's Health in Society. ISBN 978-2-940286-02-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Astbury, Jill (2006). Services for victim/survivors of sexual assault : identifying needs, interventions and provision of services in Australia. Australian Institute of Family Studies., Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies. ISBN 0-642-39547-0. OCLC 122313061.
  15. ^ Astbury, Jill; Bruck, Dorothy; Loxton, Deborah (2011). "Forced Sex: A Critical Factor in the Sleep Difficulties of Young Australian Women". Violence and Victims. 26 (1): 53–72. doi:10.1891/0886-6708.26.1.53. hdl:1959.13/936083. ISSN 0886-6708.
  16. ^ Astley, Jill (October 2013). "Violating children's rights: The psychological impact of sexual abuse in childhood, InPsych 2013, Vol 35". Australian Psychological Society. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  17. ^ Tessie Vanderwert (8 March 2008). "A vote of thanks". The Age. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
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