Kathleen Woodward

Statistical Panic

Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the cultural politics of emotions in American culture since the 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 27mm x 162mm x 236mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343547
• ISBN-10: 0822343541
• Artikelnr.: 25881152

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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