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1Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK. sarah.seymour-smith@ntu.ac.uk
Abstract:
Research has demonstrated that gender is a barrier to men's participation in self-help groups. In this article I analyse how four men and seven women negotiate their identities as members of cancer self-help groups. Their accounts were transcribed and analysed using a synthetic approach to discursive psychology. Women's accounts were organized around the notion of receiving help whereas men appeared to resist this type of identity. I explore how men attended to the presentation of a masculine identity and focus on how men negotiated 'legitimately masculine' reasons to be engaged in self-help groups.
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