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

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.

Author: S. Harper
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/30/2009
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230218802

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/30/2009 pg. 19

About the Author
STEPHEN HARPER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.