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dc.contributor.authorFullagar, Simone
dc.contributor.authorGattuso, Suzy
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:22:52Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:22:52Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.date.modified2009-11-18T05:31:50Z
dc.identifier.issn14467984
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/25301
dc.description.abstractIn this article we draw upon the work of governmentality and cultural risk theorists (Foucault 1991; Rose 1999; Dean 1999; Lupton 1999) and feminist research into women's experience of depression (Stoppard, 2000) to develop a gendered analysis of recent Australian mental health policies. We explore the power-knowledge relations that shape current policy directions, and hence the thinking that guides health professionals, in relation to women's experience of depression and emotional distress in society today. Policy discourses are a means through which neo-liberal rule is exercised in relation to women's emotional lives as a population and as individuals identified as 'at risk' of mental disorder. Yet, a sociocultural analysis of the gendered experience of depression has been largely ignored within mental health policy that draws upon biomedical and psychological discourses aimed at the prevention, identification and treatment of disorder. We ask where, in this contemporary regime of truth, is there room for women to ask critical questions about their own experiences of selfhood and emotions in contemporary culture, and importantly, to be heard?
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAuseiNet
dc.publisher.placewww.auseinet.com/journal
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dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto13
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian e-journal for the Advancement of Mental Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume1
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic Health and Health Services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1117
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1701
dc.titleRethinking gender, risk and depression in Australian mental health policy
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.date.issued2002
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gro.griffith.authorFullagar, Simone P.


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