Bøger af Katie Masters

Can the diagnosis 'Social Anxiety Disorder' (SAD) in women be understood as a rational response to life in postfeminist, neoliberal, twenty-first century Britain? By speaking to women with this diagnosis, and drawing on the author's own lived experience, this book investigates the interplay between women's social anxiety and Western culture. It argues that societal factors are implicated in women's mental distress to a far greater extent than dominant (especially psychiatric) narratives would hold -- narratives which, premised on individual pathology, often present a biologically reductionist and medicalised account. Through deploying a unique blend of feminism and anti-psychiatry, this book critiques the framework which exists around diagnosing and treating SAD, but without dismissing distress. Inspired by feminist critiques of other gendered psychiatric diagnoses, such as Anorexia Nervosa, it conceptualises 'SAD' -- which appears to be more prevalent in women -- as a 'culture-bound syndrome'. This book develops feminist scholarship which has explored women's socialisation and gendered power relations: from the requirement to emulate beauty ideals and embody contradictory imperatives of femininity, to the newer, social media-fuelled pressure to present the 'best version of oneself'. Laying bare these exigent demands, and their associated 'no-win' situations, women's self-surveillance and concern with being evaluated negatively -- both of which exemplify SAD -- are, in the spirit of antipsychiatry, rendered comprehensible. This book will be of tremendous utility for those with interests in gender studies and sociology.

When sixteen year-old Brenna Morgan arrived in Ireland with her travel-writer mother she had expected the usual-a couple of months in a country that wasn't her home. What she hadn't anticipated was making a promise to a dying faerie who saves her life. Armed with only her wits and a strange iron key given to her by the faerie, Brenna is pulled into a world where myth and legend cross all too often into reality, in search for a child hidden away in their world. Knowing nothing of the faerie realm, she is aided in her search by her new found friend Patrick and a reluctant faerie named Roibhilin with a grudge against humans. But the more she uncovers the more she realizes that not all is as it seems, that danger comes in the most unassuming of guises, and that the child she is sworn to protect could destroy not only the faerie world but her own as well.

Ever had a problem and not know where to go? Ever been asked for advice and felt out of your depth? Do you believe everything your mates tell you? Want to know what they won't tell you in the classroom? This book covers: drugs; relationships and families; smoking; alcohol; health for girls; sex; stress, mental health, money and bullying.