Cvetkovich Depression

A Public Feeling
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9185-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cvetkovich, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. The Depression Journals (A Memoir)

Going Down 29

Swimming 43

The Return 62

Reflections: Memoir as Public Feelings Research Method 74

Part II. A Public Feelings Project (A Speculative Essay)

1. Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models 85

2. From Dispossession to Radical Self-Possession: Racism and Depression 115

3. The Utopia of Ordinary Habit: Crafting, Creativity, and Spiritual Practice 154

Epilogue 203

Notes 213

Bibliography 243

Illustration Credits 265

Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, also published by Duke University Press, and Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism; a coeditor of Political Emotions; and a former editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.