Stories of Societal Health — The Impact of Narrated Positional, Situated and Ideological Health Representation

Abstract

In this chapter, health representations in society in terms of the women’s narrated accounts are examined in order to critically analyse how positional and ideological societal representations of health are situated in the perimenopausal health identity. In the previous chapters two layers of the perimenopausal health identity construction have been theorised, the personal layer where individual considerations about health are explained in terms of touchstones of health and an interpersonal layer where relationships with others are examined in terms if identity actions such as performing and relating.