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Table 3 Overview over the gender concepts and theories used in the papers

From: How gender theories are used in contemporary public health research

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Which gender concepts and theories are used in relation to health issues

What aspect(s) of health does the main theory address

How are the theories used? (Strategy 1 to 8 in Table 2b)

Methods

1

CURRENT SOCIOLOGY

Intersectionality

Constructions of masculinities/ femininities

“Health” unspecified

Not relevant to code - editorial

Editorial

2

Post-modern theories

Materiality of bodies, social construction of differences

Health care unspecified

2, 8

Theoretical

3

Relational theory of gender

Gender constructions

Coronary heart disease

2, 4

Review of qualitative methods

4

Intersectionality

General practitioner visits

2, 4

Empirical qualitative

5

Intersectionality

Hegemonic masculinity

Deconstruction of binary categories

HIV test

1, 2

Mixed method empirical

6

Gender constructions,

gender relations

Gender identities

Sexual reproductive health issues

2, 4, 5

Empirical qualitative

7

Foucault – biopower, power and knowledge

Male menopause

4, 5

Empirical qualitative

 

SOCIAL SCIENCE MEDICINE

   

8

Relational, intersectional, and biosocial approaches

Health unspecified, autism

Not relevant to code - editorial

Editorial

9

Gender bias

Social constructivism

Autism

1, 2, 6

Theoretical

10

Relational theory of gender

Anorexia

2, 6, 8

Theoretical

11

Sex and gender in interaction Embodiment

Behavioral and biological differences in early ages.

2, 3

Theoretical

12

Intersectionality

HIV, mental illness

2, 6

Theoretical

13

Masculinity Intersectionality

Drug abuse

2, 6

Empirical qualitative

14

Gender constructions and agency

Sexuality

2, 3, 4, 5

Empirical qualitative

15

Gendered embodiment

Sexualised medical surveillance

Diagnose as a frame of gendered interpretations/expectations

CAH congenital adrenal hyperplasia

2,7

Review

16

Early feminist critic of surrogacy

Liberal feminism defended surrogacy

Intersectionality

assisted reproductive technologies

2, 3

Empirical qualitative

17

Gender system

Hegemonic masculinity

Public health messages

2, 4, 5

Empirical qualitative

18

Gender socialization of role theories

Gender relational approach

Doing gender

Health behaviour

2, 5, 8

Empirical qualitative

19

Intersectionality

Double and Triple jeopardy hypothesis

Masculinities, Femininities

Relational selves

Mental health

1, 2, 5

Empirical quantitative

20

Intersectionality

Long-term illness

1, 2

Empirical quantitative

21

Criticism against dichotomies and differences

Sex and gender entanglement (sex/gender)

Intersectional

Human health unspecified

2, 5, 7, 8

Theoretical

22

Post-modern and post-colonial feminism

Hegemonic masculinities

Gender mainstream

International health unspecified

2, 8

Empirical qualitative

23

Feminist intersectional framework

Health and well-being unspecified

2, 4, 5, 6

Empirical qualitative

24

Gender order

“Health” unspecified

2

Quantitative methodological

25

Social constructivism

Mental health

2, 5

Review

26

Multiple role theory, Role stress theory

Musculoskeletal disorders and emotional exhaustion

2, 4, 5

Quantitative empirical

27

Masculinities, gender as performative, critics a sex-difference framework and essentialism

Suicide

Not relevant to code - editorial

editorial

28

Gendered identities and practices, masculinity crisis, objectivist rather than constructivist understanding, gendered scripts of suicide, (does not mention power, more focus on sociology)

Suicide

2

Qualitative, social autopsy, empirical

29

Masculinity, hegemonic masc., powerful males, biological distinction between male and female human beings, male power, patriarchal, gendered life circumstances (violence, sexuality, supply family)

Suicide

2, 4, 5

Quantitative empirical

30

Differences within the group of men (age)

Criticizes that masculinities are used for explaining all male behaviour (cause and effect model), models of masculinity are not applicable on boys, backlash against feminism

Suicide

2

Qualitative empirical

31

Constructions of masculinities, Criticism of the construction of men as one single group and of Western dualism of body and mind.

Suicide

2, 5, 8

Qualitative empirical

32

Masculinities (identities, roles, norms, hegemonic), (intersecting with class etc.), agency within structure, gendered power relations, less socially connected,

Suicide

2, 4, 5

Qualitative empirical

33

Gender relations, construction of masculinities, gendered life circumstances, gender roles

Suicide

2, 4, 5

Review of qualitative papers

  1. aReferences refer to Additional file 1