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The female face of shame /
The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, this book explores the nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female body, and shame....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bodies of Shame. The Other Woman : Xenophobia and Shame ; Rape, Trauma, and Shame in Samira Bellil's Dans l'enfer des tournantes ; A Bloody Shame : Angela Carter's Shameless Postmodern Fairy Tales ; "Ecrire pour ne plus avoir honte" : Christine Angot's and Annie Ernaux's Shameless Bodies ; Interactions of Disability Pride and Shame
- Families of Shame. Colonial Shame in Michelle Cliff's Abeng ; Ancestors and Aliens : Queer Transformations and Affective Estrangement in Octavia Butler's Fiction ; Daughters of the House of Shame ; "Bound and Gagged with Thread" : Shame, Female Development, and the Künstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's The Alberta Trilogy ; Girl World and Bullying : Intersubjective Shame in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye ; Affliction in Jean Rhys and Simone Weil
- Nations of Shame. Coping with National Shames through Chinese Women's Bodies : Glorified or Mortified? ; Shamed Bodies : Partition Violence and Women ; Interrogating the Place of Lajja (Shame) in Contemporary Mauritius ; Shame and Belonging in Postcolonial Algeria.