Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts

Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780814756775
ISBN-13 : 0814756778
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Book Synopsis Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts by : Patricia McDaniel

Download or read book Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts written by Patricia McDaniel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II Americans’ attitudes towards shyness have changed. The women’s movement and the sexual revolution raised questions about communication, self-expression, intimacy, and personality, leading to new concerns about shyness. At the same time, the growth of psychotherapy and the mental health industry brought shyness to the attention of professionals who began to regard it as an illness in need of a cure. But what is shyness? How is it related to gender, race, and class identities? And what does its stigmatization say about our culture? In Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts, Patricia McDaniel tells the story of shyness. Using popular self-help books and magazine articles she shows how prevailing attitudes toward shyness frequently work to disempower women. She draws on evidence as diverse as 1950s views of shyness as a womanly virtue to contemporary views of shyness as a barrier to intimacy to highlight how cultural standards governing shyness reproduce and maintain power differences between and among women and men.

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