Book Review: Depression: A Public Feeling

Abstract

Ann Cvetkovich begins Depression: A Public Feeling with The Depression Journals-thirty pages on her experiences of stagnation, isolation and despair that occurred alongside the development of her academic career. Like the memoir genre to which Depression: A Public Feeling often responds, these passages are individual stories of personal struggle with, and later treatment for, depression. However, the short memoir also introduces the political questions through which Cvetkovich considers these moments of despair, and as such, the contribution that her descriptive approach to depression offers feminist studies.