Shame a brief history
Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame's power to compl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana, Illinois
University of Illinois Press
2017, [2017]©2017
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| Series: | History of emotions
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| Collection: | JSTOR Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Exploring Shame: The Interdisciplinary Context
- Shame and Shaming in Premodern Societies
- The Impact of Modernity: Some Possibilities
- Reconsidering Shame in Western Society: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- The Revival of Shame: Contemporary History
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-158) and index