Comics and Women's Mental Health: Five Stories (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels)

By: Jeanne-Marie Viljoen

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Synopsis: This book discusses five recent, hand-drawn, comics memoirs of women&’s mental health experiences, not easily captured in words alone. It deals with a range of mental health experiences that are not simply diagnoseable mental disorders, and do not always stem from visible physical conditions (heavy feelings, loneliness, postpartum depression, grief, schizophrenia and suicide). Yet, by also considering the formal qualities of these stories, it is able to focus on embodied aspects of experience, inflecting these with perspectives from a range of women of various ages, sexualities, genders, races and cultures. This book demonstrates how comics are an effective, interdisciplinary means of communicating women&’s mental health and wellbeing.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031982651
Related ISBNs:: 9783031982644
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 10/16/25
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.