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Shame and Modernity in Britain - 1890 to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Shame and Modernity in Britain - 1890 to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book argues that traditional images and practices associated
with shame did not recede with the coming of modern Britain.
Following the authors' acclaimed and successful nineteenth century
book, Cultures of Shame, this new monograph moves forward to look
at shame in the modern era. As such, it investigates how social and
cultural expectations in both war and peace, changing attitudes to
sexual identities and sexual behaviour, new innovations in media
and changing representations of reputation, all became sites for
shame's reconstruction, making it thoroughly modern and in tune
with twentieth century Britain's expectations. Using a suite of
detailed micro-histories, the book examines a wide expanse of
twentieth century sites of shame including conceptions of
cowardice/conscientious objection during the First World War, fraud
and clerical scandal in the interwar years, the shame associated
with both abortion and sexual behaviour redefined in different ways
as 'deviant', shoplifting in the 1980s and lastly, how
homosexuality shifted from 'Coming Out' to embracing 'Pride',
finally rediscovering the positivity of shame with the birth of the
'Queer'.
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