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Mental Illness in Popular Media: Essays on the Representation of Disorders
Get PDFThis book review delves into the analysis of Rubin’s Mental Illness in Popular Media: Essays on the Representation of Disorder. The premise of this book being a detailed exploration of the development in expression of psychology and culture, and how they mirror, critique, reinforce and even disprove one another over time. His carefully chosen collection of essays poses to the reader important social questions based on issues often unspoken of, such as mental health and illness, that are placed on the periphery of societal norms. The book cleverly pushes the boundaries of modern-day conversation by discussing the ways that various popular cultures represents matters of mental illness and mental health- in other words: society’s peripheral voices
Understanding prejudice, racism and social conflict by Martha Augoustinos and Katherine J Reynolds
No full textReview about racism and prejudice. 
The Detrimental Affect Sexual Abuse has on Mental Wellbeing as Shown in ‘Pop-Culture’ and Modern Literature
Get PDFRape, by definition is; ‘The crime, typically committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against their will.’[1] Rape is caused by rapists. Not by the volume of alcohol someone has consumed, not by how a person behaves or what they happened to be wearing. Including what is beneath their clothes. Age is irrelevant. They can be either male or female, “typically by a man,” although not false, the stigmatism behind the victim consistently being female with a male abuser is staggering, the OED even implies this stereotype. A stigma which Chbosky removes throughout his novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. How would having sex with a person ‘against their will’ affect, ‘a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being?’[2] Sexual abuse and its harmful psychological affects is still a taboo subject throughout contemporary culture, even in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the reader is unaware what has happened to Charlie until the end of the novel, as is Charlie.
[1] OED, (2018) <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/rape> [accessed 19 November 2018].
[2] OED, (2018) <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mental_health> [accessed 19 November 2018].
 
A History of the Struggles of Women in Literature and Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’
Get PDFAn article on the struggles of women in literature