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Madness, Power and the Media - Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,594
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Madness, Power and the Media - Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (Hardcover): S. Harper

Madness, Power and the Media - Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (Hardcover)

S. Harper

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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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: S. Harper
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-21880-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
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LSN: 0-230-21880-6
Barcode: 9780230218802

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