Research Catalog

Title

Black dogs and blue words : depression and gender in the age of self-care / Kimberly K. Emmons.

Author

Emmons, Kimberly, 1972-

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.

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Details

Description

xii, 213 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Analyzes the rhetoric surrounding depression. Maintains that the techniques and language of depression marketing strategies, vague words such as worry, irritability, and loss of interest, target women and young girls and encourage self-diagnosis and self-medication. Further, depression narratives and other texts encode a series of gendered messages about health and illness. As depression and other forms of mental illness move from the medical-professional sphere into that of the consumer-public, the boundary at which distress becomes disease grows ever more encompassing, the need for remediation and treatment increasingly warranted. From publisher description.

Subject

• Depression in women
• Mental illness in mass media
• Advertising
• Publicity
• Mass media
• Self-care, Health
• Depressive Disorder > psychology
• Communications Media
• Self Care
• Women > psychology
• Mass Media
• advertising
• mass media
• Self-care, Health
• Publicity
• Mass media
• Advertising
• Depression in women
• Mental illness in mass media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Depression, a rhetorical illness -- Articulate depression : the discursive legacy of biological psychiatry -- Strategic imprecision and the self-doctoring drive -- Isolating words : metaphors that shape depression's identities -- Telling stories of depression : models for the gendered self -- Diagnostic genres and the reconfiguring of medical expertise -- Conclusion : toward a rhetorical care of the self.

ISBN

• 9780813547206
• 0813547202

LCCN

• 2009021737
• 3155883

OCLC

• ocn359166918
• 359166918
• SCSB-9799048

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library