Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress

Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress
ISBN-10
0230249507
ISBN-13
9780230249509
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2009-07-30
Publisher
Springer
Author
S. Harper

Description

Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.

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