Shrinking violets and Caspar Milquetoasts : shyness, power, and intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 / Patricia A. McDaniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDaniel, Patricia (Patricia A.)

Series:

American social experience series.

The American social experience series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bashfulness--History.

Bashfulness.

Bashfulness--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since World War II Americans' attitudes towards shyness have changed. The women's movement and the sexual revolution raised questions about communication, self-expression, intimacy, and personality, leading to new concerns about shyness. At the same time, the growth of psychotherapy and the mental health industry brought shyness to the attention of professionals who began to regard it as an illness in need of a cure. But what is shyness? How is it related to gender, race, and class identities? And what does its stigmatization say about our culture?. In Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts

Contents:

The emotional culture of shyness from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century

"Build him a dais" : shyness and heterosexuality from the roles of the fifties to the rules of the nineties

Assertive women and timid men? : race, heterosexuality, and shyness

Shyness from nine to five

"Intimacy is a difficult art" : the changing role of shyness in friendship.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-209) and index.

ISBN:

9780814761212

0814761216

9780814759936

0814759939

9781417568680

1417568682

OCLC:

779828212