Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval
England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating
hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A
combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this
practice of 'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's
chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to
others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the
paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional
practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and
reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of
literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it
transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of
femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking
about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .
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