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American shame : stigma and the body politic / edited by Myra Mendible.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shame--Social aspects--United States.
- Shame.
- Shame--Political aspects--United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors.
- Contents:
- Introduction : American Shame and the Boundaries of Belonging / Myra Mendible
- Shame before the Law : Affects of Abortion Regulation / Karen Weingarten
- Sex, Shame, and the Single Life : Bond and the "Black Shirley Temple" / Daniel McNeil
- Neoliberal Crimmigration : The "Commonsense" Shaming of the Undocumented / Leah Perry
- The Look of Sovereignty : Style and Politics in the Young Lords / Frances Negrón-Muntaner
- Suicide as an Invocation of Shame in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Renee Lee Gardner
- Fat, Shame, and the Disciplining Practices of Health Expertise / Meghan Griffin
- Citizenship at Odds : Disability, Liberalism, and the Shame of Interdependence / Noel Glover
- Shame and Shitting : Postfeminist Episodes in Contemporary Hollywood Films / Madeline Walker
- Distancing Maneuvers : Collective Shame in Iraq War Films / Mike Rancourt
- Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill, Shame, and the Rise of the "Slasher" Trope in Halloween / Anthony Carlton Cooke
- Shaming and Reclaiming Women's Sexuality through Cinematic Depictions of Masturbation / Megan Tagle Adams
- Dieting for the Sake of Art : Eleanor Antin, Rachel Rosenthal, and Faith Ringgold / Emily Newman.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-01986-9
- OCLC:
- 933588003
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