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Statistical Panic : Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions /

"In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture's scripts for "emotional" behavior and that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Woodward, Kathleen M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: thinking feeling, feeling thinking
  • Containing anger, advocating anger: Freud and feminism
  • Against wisdom: anger and aging
  • Racial shame, mass-mediated shame, mutual shame
  • Liberal compassion, compassionate conservatism
  • Sympathy for nonhuman cyborgs
  • Bureaucratic rage
  • Statistical panic
  • Coda: inexhaustible grief.