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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457631103321

Autore

Probyn Elspeth <1958->

Titolo

Blush [[electronic resource] ] : faces of shame / / Elspeth Probyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8166-8702-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

152.4/4

Soggetti

Shame

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: shame in love -- Doing shame -- Shame, bodies, places -- The shamer and the shamed -- Ancestral shame -- Writing shame.

Sommario/riassunto

Elspeth Probyn contends that shame is a powerful resource in rethinking who we are and who we want to be. What shames us says a great deal about our character as individuals and as a society. Blush combines psychology and cultural criticism, sociology and popular science, to present a unique perspective on debates about the ethics and emotion of identity.