Depression: A Public Feeling

by Ann Cvetkovich

Paperback, 2012

Status

Available

Call number

HQ75.15 C86 2012

Publication

Duke University Press Books (2012), Edition: Illustrated, 296 pages

Description

Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and cultural critique in search of ways of writing about depression as a public cultural and political phenomenon rather than as a personal medical pathology.

User reviews

LibraryThing member LizaHa
A queer academic self-help book! That is what Ann Cvetkovich said she "kind of jokingly" called this project, but I think it's for real. My boss lent me this along with Lynda Barry's Cruddy and Beth Ditto's memoir, which I think make good companion pieces. By the time I was about a third of the way
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through, I had forcibly recommended this book to almost everyone I know, but two thirds of the way in I got completely bogged down. Maybe that's fitting?
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Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2013)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

296 p.; 9 inches

ISBN

0822352389 / 9780822352389
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