Jill Astbury
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Jill Astbury is an Australian researcher in the field of women's mental health.[1]
Astbury is perhaps best known for co-authoring the 1980 book Birth Rites Birth Rights with Judith Lumley.[2][3][4]
She also wrote extensively for The 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, a World Health Organisation centre.[9] She left this position to join Victoria University[when?] in Melbourne, Australia, as research professor in psychology. Her work focuses on the relationship between gender based violence including sexual violence and gender disparities in mental health including increased rates of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder.[1]
