Shame a brief history /
Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame's power to compl...
| Main Author: | Stearns, Peter N., |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Urbana, Illinois :
University of Illinois Press,
[2017].
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 163 pages : graphs ; 23 cm. |
| Series: |
History of emotions.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Exploring shame : the interdisciplinary context
- Shame and shaming in premodern societies
- The impact of modernity : some possibilities
- Reconsidering shame in Western society : the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- The revival of shame : contemporary history.