Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / J. Brooks Bouson.

"How does physical, emotional, and sexual abuse shape women's perceptions of their bodies and identities? How are women's psyches affected by the sexual, racial, and cultural denigration that occurs when women's bodies are represented as defective, spoiled, damaged, or dirtied? E...

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Main Author:	Bouson, J. Brooks
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Subjects:	American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Canadian literature > Women authors > History and criticism. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women in literature. Shame in literature. Abused women in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Body image in literature. Self-perception in literature. Body image in women. Self-perception in women. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. Abused women in literature American literature > Women authors Body image in literature Body image in women Canadian literature > Women authors English literature > Women authors Psychic trauma in literature Self-perception in literature Self-perception in women Shame in literature Women in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
The humiliations of the female flesh in Alice Munro's Lives of girls and women
Family violence, incest, and white-trash shame in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina
Racial self-loathing and the color complex in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Marita Golden's Don't play in the sun
Sexual shame, family honor, and the mother-daughter relationship in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory
Coming of age in a culture of shame in Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities
Feeling fat, fearing fat in Jenefer Shute's Life-size and Judith Moore's Fat girl: a true story
The culture of apperances and the socially invisible and unattractive woman in Anita Brookner's Look at me, Doris Lessing's The summer before the dark, and Fay Weldon's The life and loves of a she-devil
Gerontophobia and the cultural shaming of the elderly woman in May Sarton's As we are now and Margaret Laurence's The stone angel
Writing the disfigured and disabled body-self in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a face and Nancy Mairs's Plaintext, Carnal acts, and Waist-high in the world
In conclusion.

Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / J. Brooks Bouson.

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