21st Century Media and Female Mental Health : Profitable Vulnerability and Sad Girl Culture

21st Century Media and Female Mental Health Profitable Vulnerability and Sad Girl Culture

This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have bec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thelandersson, Fredrika. author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
Cham : 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:
Gender identity in mass media.
Sex.
Communication in medicine.
Media and Gender.
Gender Studies.
Health Communication.
Media and mental health
Feminist media studies
discourse analysis
Representations of mental illness
postfeminist media
popular feminism
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009701622606719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Magazines: Relatability and Seriousness in Cosmopolitan and Teen Vogue
  • 3. Celebrities: Intimacy, ordinariness, and self-transformation in the health narratives of Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez
  • 4. Social Media Sadness: Sad Girls and the Public Display of Vulnerability
  • 5. Conclusion.

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