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

by StephenHarper (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 30 Jul 2009

ISBN 10: 0230218806
ISBN 13: 9780230218802