Jill Astbury is an Australianresearcher in the field of women'smental health.^[1]

Astbury is perhaps best known for co-authoring the 1980 bookBirth Rites Birth Rights withJudith Lumley.^[2][3][4]

She also wrote extensively forThe Age newspaper throughout the early 1980's, reviewing books and discussing issues pertaining to women.^[5][6][7][8]

Astbury was deputy director of the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, aWorld Health Organisation centre.^[9] She left this position to joinVictoria University^[when?] inMelbourne, Australia, as researchprofessor inpsychology. Her work focuses on the relationship between gender basedviolence includingsexual violence and gender disparities in mental health including increased rates ofdepression, anxiety andpost traumatic stress disorder.^[1]

• 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]

In 2008, Astbury was inducted into theVictorian Honour Roll of Women for her research intoviolence against women.^[17]

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• Australian women psychologists
• 21st-century Australian psychologists
• 20th-century Australian non-fiction writers
• 21st-century Australian non-fiction writers
• 20th-century Australian women writers
• 21st-century Australian women writers

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