Black dogs and blue words
Subtitle: depression and gender in the age of self-care
By: Kimberly K. Emmons.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813547206
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 and index.
Table of contents: title: Depression, a rhetorical illness; title: Articulate depression : the discursive legacy of biological psychiatry; title: Strategic imprecision and the self-doctoring drive; title: Isolating words : metaphors that shape depression's identities; title: Telling stories of depression : models for the gendered self; title: Diagnostic genres and the reconfiguring of medical expertise; title: Conclusion : toward a rhetorical care of the self.