Woodward Statistical Panic

Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9231-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

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Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior and how our increasingly media-saturated culture impoverishes our interior lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woodward, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Thinking Feeling, Feeling Thinking 1

Part One: Cultural Politics, Communities of Feeling 29

1. Containing Anger, Advocating Anger: Freud and Feminism 35

2. Against Wisdom: Anger and Aging 58

3. Racial Shame, Mass-Mediated Shame, Mutual Shame 79

4. Liberal Compassion, Compassionate Conservatism 109

Part Two: Structures of Feeling, "New" Feelings 135

5. Sympathy for Nonhuman Cyborgs 139

6. Bureaucratic Rage 165

7. Statistical Panic 195

Coda: Inexhaustible Grief 219

Notes 235

Bibliography 275

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Woodward is Professor of English at the University of Washington, where she directs the Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is the author of Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions and the editor of Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations and The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture.