Comics and Women‘s Mental Health Five Stories Jeanne-Marie Viljoen 9783031982644 Bestseller

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 Information
ISBN 9783031982644
Author Jeanne-Marie Viljoen
Format Hardback
Page Count 150
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Series Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels