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.
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
