By Luna Dolezal
Each girl – certainly each member of an oppressed workforce – will locate this subject resonant. Dolezal argues that, whereas ‘acute’ physique disgrace is important to socialization (what Norbert Elias referred to as ‘the civilising process’), ‘chronic’ physique disgrace is undermining; its damaging strength is exemplified when it comes to plastic surgery. Dolezal skilfully weaves jointly social idea (Elias, Foucault, Goffman) with phenomenology (Sartre, Merleau-Ponty) to stipulate a thought of the socially formed physique that might be required examining for feminists and social theorists alike.
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Fischer (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995). 24. See: Ying Wong and Jeanne Tsai, “Cultural Models of Shame and Guilt,” in The Selfconscious Emotions: Theory and Research, ed. Jessica L. Tracy, Richard W. Robins, and June Price Tangney (New York: Guilford Press, 2007). 25. Aristotle, The ‘Art’ of Rhetoric, 214–215 (1384a). 26. Velleman, “The Genesis of Shame,” 27. 27. , An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, 19. 28. Williams, Shame and Necessity, 78. 29. See the ‘shame’ entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
See also: W. Ray Crozier, “Social Psychological Perspectives on Shyness, Embarrassment, and Shame,” in Shyness and Embarrassment: Perspectives from Social Psychology, ed. W. Ray Crozier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 39–40; and Michael Lewis, “Embarrassment: The Emotion of Self-Exposure and Evaluation,” in Self-Conscious Emotions: The Psychology of Shame, Guilt, Embarrassment and Pride, eds. June Price Tangney and Kurt W. Fischer (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995), 210. 50. Vasudevi Reddy, How Infants Know Minds (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008), 145.
Donald L. Nathanson, Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex and the Birth of the Self (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1992), 15–16. 5. Bernhard Schlink, The Reader, trans. Carol Brown Janeway (London: Phoenix, 1997). 6. Hanna’s shame is compounded by her involvement and ultimate complicity in a Nazi massacre. An alternative reading of this story is that she accepts the prison sentence—and ultimately commits suicide—not merely for the shame of her illiteracy, but due to shame about her Nazi past. 7. Rowland S.