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Statistical panic : cultural politics and poetics of the emotions / Kathleen Woodward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodward, Kathleen M.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions--Social aspects.
- Emotions.
- Emotions in literature.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior and how our increasingly media-saturated culture impoverishes our interior lives.
- Contents:
- Introduction: thinking feeling, feeling thinking
- Containing anger, advocating anger: Freud and feminism
- Against wisdom: anger and aging
- Racial shame, mass-mediated shame, mutual shame
- Liberal compassion, compassionate conservatism
- Sympathy for (nonhuman) cyborgs
- Bureaucratic rage
- Statistical panic
- Coda: inexhaustible grief.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065384
- 9781283065382
- 128306538X
- 9780822343776
- 0822343770
- OCLC:
- 762877644
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