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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

by S. Harper
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Availability:In StockContributor:S. HarperPublish date:2009-07-30Pages:238
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230218802ISBN-10:230218806UPC:9780230218802Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Popular Culture, SociologySize:8.60 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC14125JY4
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230218802ISBN-10:230218806UPC:9780230218802Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Popular Culture, SociologySize:8.60 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC14125JY4
STEPHEN HARPER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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2009 Edition

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