LEADER 04778nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910827314403321 005 20240417041017.0 010 $a1-4384-2739-5 010 $a1-4416-2266-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438427393 035 $a(CKB)1000000000789022 035 $a(OCoLC)436997213 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000145703 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11152156 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000145703 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10182239 035 $a(PQKB)10495398 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408302 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408302 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588853 035 $a(DE-B1597)682879 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438427393 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000789022 100 $a20081106d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmbodied shame $euncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings /$fJ. Brooks Bouson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cSUNY Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4384-2727-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe humiliations of the female flesh in Alice Munro's lives of girls and women -- Family violence, incest, and white-trash shame in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- Racial self-loathing and the color complex in Toni Morrison's The Bluest eye and Marita Golden's Don't play in the sun -- Sexual shame, family honor, and the mother-daughter relationship in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- Coming of age in a culture of shame in Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities -- Feeling fat, fearing fat in Jenefer Shute's life-size and Judith Moore's Fat girl: a true story -- The culture of appearances and the socially invisible and unattractive woman in Anita Brookner's Look at me, Doris Lessing's The summer before the dark, and Fay Weldon's The life and loves of a she-devil -- Gerontophobia and the cultural shaming of the elderly woman in May Sarton's As we are now and Margaret Laurence's The stone angel -- Writing the disfigured and disabled body-self in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a face and Nancy Mairs's Plaintext, Carnal acts, and Waist-high in the world. 330 1 $a"How does physical, emotional, and sexual abuse shape women's perceptions of their bodies and identities? How are women's psyches affected by the sexual, racial, and cultural denigration that occurs when women's bodies are represented as defective, spoiled, damaged, or dirtied? Embodied Shame skillfully explores these questions in the context of recent writings by North American women, contributing to work in shame theory and to feminist analyses of the intersections of theories of the body, affect, emotions, narrative, and trauma. By examining popular contemporary fictional - and nonfictional - texts, including Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, J. Brooks Bouson illuminates how deeply entrenched bodily shame continues to operate in contemporary culture, even as we celebrate the supposed freeing of the female body from the social and cultural constraints that have long bound it."--BOOK JACKET. 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCanadian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aShame in literature 606 $aAbused women in literature 606 $aPsychic trauma in literature 606 $aBody image in literature 606 $aSelf-perception in literature 606 $aBody image in women 606 $aSelf-perception in women 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCanadian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aShame in literature. 615 0$aAbused women in literature. 615 0$aPsychic trauma in literature. 615 0$aBody image in literature. 615 0$aSelf-perception in literature. 615 0$aBody image in women. 615 0$aSelf-perception in women. 676 $a810.9/3522 700 $aBouson$b J. Brooks$0690513 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827314403321 996 $aEmbodied shame$93974065 997 $aUNINA