Overview
- Examines the discourse around female mental health in 21st century media
- Identifies two conflicting aspects of mental illness awareness, profitable vulnerability and sad girl culture
- Takes a feminist media studies approach to examine mental health in magazines and on social media
- This open access book charts a brief history of gendered madness
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Using discourse analysis and digital ethnography to study contemporary representations of mental illness and sadness in Western popular media and social media, this book takes a feminist media studies approach to popular discourse, understanding the conversations happening around mental health in these sites to function as scripts for how to think about and experience mental illness and sadness
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--Rosalind Gill, City, University of London.
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About the author
She has had chapters published in The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication, and articles published in Feminist Media Studies and Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 21st Century Media and Female Mental Health
Book Subtitle: Profitable Vulnerability and Sad Girl Culture
Authors: Fredrika Thelandersson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16756-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16755-3Published: 23 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16758-4Published: 23 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16756-0Published: 22 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Gender Studies