TY - BOOK ID - 77910263 TI - Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings PY - 2009 SN - 1438427395 1441622667 9781441622662 1438427271 9781438427270 9781438427393 PB - Albany : SUNY Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Canadian literature KW - English literature KW - Women in literature. KW - Shame in literature. KW - Abused women in literature. KW - Psychic trauma in literature. KW - Body image in literature. KW - Self-perception in literature. KW - Body image in women. KW - Self-perception in women. KW - Women KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Psychology KW - Abused women in literature KW - Body image in literature KW - Body image in women KW - Psychic trauma in literature KW - Self-perception in literature KW - Self-perception in women KW - Shame in literature KW - Women in literature KW - 820 "19" KW - 82.04 KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Canadian literature (English) KW - 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - 82.04 Literaire thema's KW - Literaire thema's KW - Women authors&delete& KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77910263 AB - "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."--BOOK JACKET. ER -