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American Shame - Stigma and the Body Politic

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Myra Mendible is Professor in the Languages and Literature Department at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. She is editor of From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Culture and Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign . Klappentext Myra Mendible is Professor in the Languages and Literature Department at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. She is editor of From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Culture and Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: American Shame and the Boundaries of Belonging / Myra Mendible Part 1: Scarlet Letters: Gender, Race, and Stigma 1. Shame Before the Law: Affects of Abortion Regulation / Karen Weingarten 2. Sex, Shame, and the Single Life: Bond and the "Black Shirley Temple" / Daniel McNeil 3. Neoliberal Crimmigration: The "Common Sense" Shaming of the Undocumented / Leah Perry 4. The Look of Sovereignty: Style, Shame, and Politics in the Young Lords / Frances Negrón-Muntaner Part 2: Disciplining the Body Politic: Domestic and Foreign Policy 5. Suicide as an Invocation of Shame in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Renee Lee Gardner 6. Fat, Shame, and the Disciplining Practices of Health Expertise / Meghan Griffin 7. Citizenship at Odds: Disability, Liberalism and the Shame of Interdependence / Noel Glover Part 3: Bodies on Display: Performing Shame in Visual Arts 8. Shame and Shitting: Postfeminist Episodes in Contemporary Hollywood Films / Madeline Walker 9. Distancing Maneuvers: Collective Shame in Iraq War Films / Mike Rancourt 10. Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill, Shame, and the Rise of the "Slasher" Trope in Halloween / Anthony Carlton Cooke 11. Shaming and Reclaiming Women's Sexuality through Cinematic Depictions of Masturbation / Megan Tagle Adams 12. Dieting for the Sake of Art: Eleanor Antin, Rachel Rosenthal, and Faith Ringgold / Emily Newman Contributors Index ...

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Myra Mendible is Professor in the Languages and Literature Department at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. She is editor of From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Culture and Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign.


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Authors Myra Mendible, Myra (EDT) Mendible
Assisted by Myra Mendible (Editor)
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.03.2016
 
EAN 9780253019790
ISBN 978-0-253-01979-0
No. of pages 298
Series Indiana University Press (IPS)
Subjects Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries

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