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POPULAR CULTURE

Domestic Abuse and NEW
Sexual Assault in Mental Illness in
Popular Culture Popular Culture

LAURA L. FINLEY
SHARON PACKER, MD, EDITOR
“ discussion in introductory “Being crazy” is generally
An ideal volume to spark
courses in women’s a negative characterization
studies, cultural studies, today, yet many celebrated
and sociology. Highly artists, leaders, and successful
”
April 2016 recommended. May 2017 individuals have achieved
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that exist—and sometimes persist—in both traditional and new
Using historical and current examples from film, television, media across eras.
literature, advertisements, and music, this book reveals
the ways that rape and abuse are typically presented—and FEATURES
misrepresented—and evaluates the impact of these depictions on • Showcases a wide variety of media representations of mental
illness and enables readers choose which views they accept
consumers.
SHARON PACKER, MD, is a practicing psychiatrist and
LAURA L. FINLEY, PhD, is associate professor of sociology and psychopharmacologist and an assistant professor of psychiatry.
criminology at Barry University, Miami Shores, FL.

NEW
FORTHCOMING

The Historian’s Scientology in
Heart of Darkness Popular Culture
Reading Conrad’s Influences and
Masterpiece as Social Struggles for Legitimacy
and Cultural History STEPHEN A. KENT
AND SUSAN RAINE, EDITORS
EDITED BY MARK D. LARABEE
This multidisciplinary study
Fiction has tremendous power to
July 2017 of Scientology examines
December 2017 portray historical truth—and to 373pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 the organization and the
230pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 communicate history to audiences Print: 978-1-4408-3249-9
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an insightful guide to the history
of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth FEATURES
centuries. • Discusses Scientology within the framework of popular culture, which is
how most people outside the religion come in contact with it
FEATURES
• Presents a fresh perspective on Conrad’s novella Heart of
Darkness by presenting this fictional story as a crucial source STEPHEN A. KENT, PhD, is professor of sociology at the
of historical knowledge University of Alberta, where he teaches undergraduate and
graduate courses on the sociology of religion and the sociology
of sectarian groups.
MARK D. LARABEE, PhD, is formerly a permanent military SUSAN RAINE is assistant professor in the Sociology
professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Department at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada.
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