21st Century Media and Female Mental Health

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This book started out as my doctoral dissertation, which I wrote as a graduate student in media studies at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information. In the process of turning the text into a book manuscript, I have teased out the main arguments that at the dissertation stage were only subtly expressed. This has involved developing the claims about the double nature of twenty-frst-century mental health awareness, which takes shape as both proftable vulnerability and sad girl culture. I have also added a background chapter that traces the history of sad and mad women in the Anglo-American West, which historicizes my understanding of contemporary conceptions of gendered mental illness