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 complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships. Peter N. Stearns draws on his long career as a historian of emotions to provide the foundational text on shame 's history and how t…
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- Full title :Shame : a brief history / Peters N. Stearns.
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"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 complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships. Peter N. Stearns draws on his long career as a historian of emotions to provide the foundational text on shame 's history and how this history contributes to contemporary issues around the emotion. Summarizing current research, Stearns unpacks the major debates that surround this complex emotion. He also surveys the changing role of shame in the United States from the nineteenth century to today, including shame 's revival as a force in the 1960s and its place in today 's social media. Looking ahead, Stearns maps the abundant opportunities for future historical research and historically informed interdisciplinary scholarship. Written for interested readers and scholars alike, Shame combines significant new research with a wider synthesis" -- Contracoberta.
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- Publication Date:2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication:Urbana, Illinois
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 163 pàgines : : il·lustracions ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780252082924, 0252082923, 9780252041402, 0252041402, 9780252050008, 0252050002
- oclc:on1335603652
Table of Contents
Conté: 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
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