Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Child-Rearing: Practices, Attitudes and Cultural Differences, NOVA Publications , ss.145-168, 2017
In the twentieth and twenty-first century, post-modern life has gained a new momentum and thoroughly altered the shape of human life. Concurrent to this shift, chaos, trauma, and fragmentation have marked the era as signature difficulties of social life. The results of post-modern life are most obviously seen in American culture, and its extension is concealed in the term 'depression'. Depression, which has popularly been equated with the term 'mad', has become a key term defining the psychological state of individuals. In Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, Prozac Nation. Young and Depressed in America (1994), and in Arthur Miller's play, The Last Yankee (1992), it becomes clear that 'depression' and its consequential 'madness' are as much the results of a cultural construction as they are products of culture. Both texts especially focus on female body and psyche through which madness is constructed. While Wurtzel prefers to write her memoir to reflect the story of an entire generation, Miller portrays the last Yankee in order to depict how the age of depression reflects the decline of the values of American culture. By putting the female psyche at the center of their texts both authors underline the fact that family, happiness and optimism all turn into fantasy.