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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821515803321

Titolo

American shame : stigma and the body politic / / edited by Myra Mendible

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-253-01986-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 pages)

Disciplina

303.3/7

Soggetti

Shame - Social aspects - United States

Shame - Political aspects - United States

Popular culture - United States

Political culture - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : American Shame and the Boundaries of Belonging / Myra Mendible -- Shame before the Law : Affects of Abortion Regulation / Karen Weingarten -- Sex, Shame, and the Single Life : Bond and the "Black Shirley Temple" / Daniel McNeil -- Neoliberal Crimmigration : The "Commonsense" Shaming of the Undocumented / Leah Perry -- The Look of Sovereignty : Style and Politics in the Young Lords / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Suicide as an Invocation of Shame in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Renee Lee Gardner -- Fat, Shame, and the Disciplining Practices of Health Expertise / Meghan Griffin -- Citizenship at Odds : Disability, Liberalism, and the Shame of Interdependence / Noel Glover -- Shame and Shitting : Postfeminist Episodes in Contemporary Hollywood Films / Madeline Walker -- Distancing Maneuvers : Collective Shame in Iraq War Films / Mike Rancourt -- Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill, Shame, and the Rise of the "Slasher" Trope in Halloween / Anthony Carlton Cooke -- Shaming and Reclaiming Women's Sexuality through Cinematic Depictions of Masturbation / Megan Tagle Adams -- Dieting for the Sake of Art : Eleanor Antin, Rachel Rosenthal, and Faith Ringgold / Emily Newman.