Speaking From the Heart - Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion

In Speaking From the Heart Professor Shields draws on examples from everyday life, contemporary culture and comprehensive research, to reveal how culturally shared beliefs about emotion shape our identities as women and men. This fascinating exploration of gender and emotion shows how emotion affects our everyday lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. That 'vivid, unforgettable condition'; 2. When does gender matter?; 3. Doing emotion/doing gender: practising in order to 'get it right'; 4. Sentiment, sympathy, and passion in the late nineteenth century; 5. The education of the emotions; 6. Ideal emotion and the fallacy of the inexpressive male; 7. Emotional = female; angry = male?; 8. Speaking from the heart; References; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Stephanie A. Shields, Stephanie A. (Pennsylvania State Universi Shields
• Collaboration: Antony Manstead (Editeur), Keith Oatley (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 10.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521004497
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00449-7
• Pages: 230
• Thèmes: Norman and Charlotte Strouse E; Norman and Charlotte Strouse E
• Catégories: Livres de conseils > Psychologie, quotidien > Développement personnel; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Psychologie > Psychologie théorique