Black Dogs and Blue Words analyzes the rhetoric surrounding depression. Kimberly K. Emmons 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 ...
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Black Dogs and Blue Words analyzes the rhetoric surrounding depression. Kimberly K. Emmons 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. Black Dogs and Blue Words demonstrates the need for rhetorical reading strategies as one response to these expanding and gendered illness definitions.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 213 p. Contains: Tables, black & white, Figures. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009021737 Type of material Book Personal name Emmons, Kimberly, 1972-Main title Black dogs and blue words: depression and gender in the age of self-care / Kimberly K. Emmons. Published/Created New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010. Description xii, 213 p. : ill.; 23 cm. ISBN 9780813547206 (hardcover: alk. paper) LC classification RC537. E46 2010 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. Subjects Depression in women. Mental illness in mass media. Depressive Disorder--psychology. Advertising as Topic. Communications Media. Self Care. Women--psychology. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index. Dewey class no. 616.85/270082 NLM class no. WM 171 E535b 2010 Other system no. (DNLM)101505837
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.