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Blush : faces of shame / Elspeth Probyn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Probyn, Elspeth, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shame.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: shame in love
- Doing shame
- Shame, bodies, places
- The shamer and the shamed
- Ancestral shame
- Writing shame.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8702-1
- OCLC:
- 476095755
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