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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? Embodied Shame skillfully explores these questions in the context of recent writings by North American women, contributing to work in shame theory and to feminist analyses of the intersections of theories of the body, affect, emotions, narrative, and trauma. By examining popular contemporary fictional and nonfictional texts, including Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, J. Brooks Bouson illuminates how deeply entrenched bodily shame continues to operate in contemporary culture, even as we celebrate the supposed freeing of the female body from the social and cultural constraints that have long bound it.
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Part I: Coming of Age, Coming to Shame: The Parental and Cultural Transmission of Sexual, Racial, and Class Shame

2. The Humiliations of the Female Flesh in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women

3. Family Violence, Incest, and White-Trash Shame in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina

4. Racial Self-Loathing and the Color Complex in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Marita Golden’s Don’t Play in the Sun

5. Sexual Shame, Family Honor, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory

6. Coming of Age in a Culture of Shame in Naomi Wolf’s Promiscuities

Part II: Speaking a Kind of Body Language: Shamed Bodies and Spoiled Identities in the Contemporary Culture of Appearances

7. Feeling Fat, Fearing Fat in Jenefer Shute’s Life-Size and Judith Moore’s Fat Girl: A True Story

8. The Culture of Appearances 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

9. Gerontophobia and the Cultural Shaming of the Elderly Woman in May Sarton’s As We Are Now and Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel

10. Writing the Disfi gured 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

11. In Conclusion

Notes
Works Cited
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

02 juillet 2010

EAN13

9781438427393

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

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Embodied Shame

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Embodied Shame Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women’s Writings

J. Brooks Bouson

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Bouson, J. Brooks. Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women’s writings / J. Brooks Bouson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4384-2727-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. American literature—Women authors—History and criticism. 2. Canadian literature—Women authors—History and criticism. 3. English literature— Women authors—History and criticism. 4. Women in literature. 5. Shame in literature. 6. Abused women in literature. 7. Psychic trauma in literature. 8. Body image in literature. 9. Self-perception in literature. 10. Body image in women. 11. Self-perception in women. I. Title. II. Title: Female shame in contemporary women’s writings. PS151.B68 2009 810.9'3522—dc22 2008048481

For my mother, Elizabeth, and my sister, Margaret

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Contents

Part I: Coming of Age, Coming to Shame: The Parental and Cultural Transmission of Sexual, Racial, and Class Shame

Chapter 2. The Humiliations of the Female Flesh in Alice Munro’sLives of Girls and Women

Chapter 3. Family Violence, Incest, and White-Trash Shame in Dorothy Allison’sBastard Out of Carolina

Chapter 4. Racial Self-Loathing and the Color Complex in Toni Morrison’sThe Bluest Eyeand Marita Golden’s Don’t Play in the Sun

Chapter 5. Sexual Shame, Family Honor, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Edwidge Danticat’sBreath, Eyes, Memory

Chapter 6. Coming of Age in a Culture of Shame in Naomi Wolf’sPromiscuities

Part II: Speaking a Kind of Body Language: Shamed Bodies and Spoiled Identities in the Contemporary Culture of Appearances

Chapter 7. Feeling Fat, Fearing Fat in Jenefer Shute’sLife-Sizeand Judith Moore’sFat Girl: A True Story

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Chapter 8. The Culture of Appearances and the Socially Invisible and Unattractive Woman in Anita Brookner’sLook at Me,Doris Lessing’sThe Summer before the Dark, and Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Chapter 9. Gerontophobia and the Cultural Shaming of the Elderly Woman in May Sarton’sAs We Are Nowand Margaret Laurence’sThe Stone Angel

Chapter 10. Writing the Disﬁgured and Disabled Body-Self in Lucy Grealy’sAutobiography of a Faceand Nancy Mairs’s Plaintext,Carnal Acts, andWaist-High in the World

Chapter 11. In Conclusion

Notes Works Cited Index

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