Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

• Main Authors: Fullagar, Simone (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), O'Brien, Wendy (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pavlidis, Adele (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Human body-Social aspects.; Health psychology.; Gender Studies.; Sociology of the Body.; Health Psychology.

Drawing upon insights from feminist new materialism the book traces the complex material-discursive processes through which women's recovery from depression is enacted within a gendered biopolitics. Within the biomedical assemblage that connects mental health policy, service provision, research...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Towards a Vital Feminist Politics
• 2. RRhizomatic Movements and Gendered Knots of 'Bad Feelings'
• 3. Reconfiguring Recovery Beyond Linearity
• 4. Motherhood, Hauntings and the Affective Arrangement of Care
• 5. Moving-Transforming Bodyminds
• 6. Creative Enactments in More-Than-Human Worlds
• 7. Reimagining Feminist Futures: Vital Politics, Disruptive Pedagogies.