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Fat Shame
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Amy Erdman Farrell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-02 - Publisher: NYU Press

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A look at how fatness became a cultural stigma in the United States.
American Shame
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Myra Mendible
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-29 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Essays examining the role of shame as an American cultural practice and how public shaming enforces conformity and group coherence. On any given day in America�
An American Shame
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Sr Usmc Bates
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-15 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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This is a true story of the Americans of Guam. Abandoned by their government even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. That abandonment opened the door f
Sister Citizen
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-20 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their politic
Lyric Shame
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Gillian White
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what po