{"product_id":"selfishness-and-selflessness-new-approaches-to-understanding-morality-9781789205497","title":"Selfishness and Selflessness: New Approaches to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWe are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection. Contributions range from an examination of how these concepts animated the eighteenth-century anti-slavery campaigners to a dissection of the way middle-class mothers’ experiences illustrate gendered struggles over how much and to whom one is morally obliged to give.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a fascinating and timely collection that throws a much-needed light on the idea and practice of selfishness and selflessness. In so doing, it follows the moral turn in the humanities and the social sciences to its logical conclusion: the writing of a social history and an ethnography of moralities.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Mark Roodhouse\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations, Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: Self, Selfish, Selfless\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLinda L. Layne\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Taking the Measure of ‘Selfishness’ and ‘Selflessness’ in the Early Twenty-First-Century US and UK\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLinda L. Layne\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Sentiment Has Struggled with Selfishness’: Selfishness, Sensibility and Gender in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Antislavery Campaign\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eG.J. Barker-Benfield\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Selfless Advocacy? Profeminist Men’s Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Britain\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLucy Delap\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Doing the Right Thing for My Child’: Self Work and Selflessness in Accounts of British ‘Full-Term’ Breastfeeding Mothers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCharlotte Faircloth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sexism, Separatism and the Rhetoric of Selfishness: Single Mothers by Choice in the US and UK\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusanna Graham and Linda L. Layne\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Selfish Masturbators? The Experience of Danish Sperm Donors and Alternatives to the Selfish\/Selfless Divide\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSebastian Mohr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Inroads into Altruism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarilyn Strathern\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e On Being Selfish – Or Not: Explorations of an Idea from the Mountains of Oaxaca and the Alaskan Tundra\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBarbara Bodenhorn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Starting Points: Modest Contributions to the History and Anthropology of Moralities and Ethics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLinda L. Layne\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042558476631,"sku":"9781789205497","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789205497.jpg?v=1750954641","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/selfishness-and-selflessness-new-approaches-to-understanding-morality-9781789205497","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}