Statistical panic : cultural politics and poetics of the emotions /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Woodward, Kathleen M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Emotions > Social aspects.
Emotions in literature.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
Civilization
Emotions in literature
Emotions > Social aspects
Social conditions
Gefühl
Kultur
Politik
Emoties.
Sociale aspecten.
Massamedia.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
United States > Civilization > 1945-
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1945-
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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