Simone Fullagar|Suzy Gattuso
Rethinking gender, risk and depression in Australian mental health policy
Charles Sturt University|Charles Sturt University
article draw upon work governmentality cultural risk theorists foucault 1991 rose 1999 dean 1999 lupton 1999 feminist research womens experience depression stoppard 2000 develop gendered analysis recent australian mental health policies explore powerknowledge relations shape current policy directions hence thinking guides health professionals relation womens experience depression emotional distress society today policy discourses means neoliberal rule exercised relation womens emotional lives population individuals identified risk mental disorder yet sociocultural analysis gendered experience depression largely ignored within mental health policy draws upon biomedical psychological discourses aimed prevention identification treatment disorder ask contemporary regime truth room women ask critical questions experiences selfhood emotions contemporary culture importantly heard