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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An eclectic anthology, it offers the readers more than one argument and perspective, which makes the volume itself lively and rich." -Ron Scapp, coeditor of Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality " -
Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Shame and the Boundaries of Belonging / Myra Mendible
Part 1: Scarlet Letters: Gender, Race, and Stigma
1. Shame Before the Law: Affects of Abortion Regulation / Karen Weingarten
2. Sex, Shame, and the Single Life: Bond and the "Black Shirley Temple" / Daniel McNeil
3. Neoliberal Crimmigration: The "Common Sense" Shaming of the Undocumented / Leah Perry
4. The Look of Sovereignty: Style, Shame, and Politics in the Young Lords / Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Part 2: Disciplining the Body Politic: Domestic and Foreign Policy
5. Suicide as an Invocation of Shame in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Renee Lee Gardner
6. Fat, Shame, and the Disciplining Practices of Health Expertise / Meghan Griffin
7. Citizenship at Odds: Disability, Liberalism and the Shame of Interdependence / Noel Glover
Part 3: Bodies on Display: Performing Shame in Visual Arts
8. Shame and Shitting: Postfeminist Episodes in Contemporary Hollywood Films / Madeline Walker
9. Distancing Maneuvers: Collective Shame in Iraq War Films / Mike Rancourt
10. Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill, Shame, and the Rise of the "Slasher" Trope in Halloween / Anthony Carlton Cooke
11. Shaming and Reclaiming Women's Sexuality through Cinematic Depictions of Masturbation / Megan Tagle Adams
12. Dieting for the Sake of Art: Eleanor Antin, Rachel Rosenthal, and Faith Ringgold / Emily Newman
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