A critical literature review of the research on suicide from a gender perspective

Abstract

Suicide is a growing social problem worldwide. The epidemiological characterization of the same has differences in the rates and means used by men and women from all over the world. In this sense, this work starts from the fact that gender can be a category that facilitates a comprehensive approach to the subject. This view is complemented on the basis that gender is not an essentialist category, but implies the generation, circulation and assumption of historical social constructions that express the economic, political and cultural processes of a society. Therefore, the objective of the work is to identify unresolved scopes and questions by the investigation of suicide with a gender perspective, which are necessary to respond to contribute to the understanding of this as a social phenomenon. To this end, a bibliographic review of a thematic type was carried out. The contribution of this critical understanding is that it can become one of the references to take into account for the design, planning, and implementation of public policies for the prevention of suicide with a view to gender.

Keywords

• suicide
• gender
• research