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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

Hardcover

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0230218806
ISBN13: 9780230218802
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 30 2009
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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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