... toward medical interventions—disempower women by encouraging feelings of shame, guilt, and isolation when medical technology is necessary. In addition to explaining what is problematic about each aspect, I include some thoughts on how we can reform these parts of the midwifery model to make them more...

...This chapter broaches the question of theoretical inquiry after Auschwitz and examines the theory of testimony in Giorgio Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz, as well as the essays of Primo Levi on which it is based, “The Gray Zone” and “Shame.” The chapter challenges Agamben’s view...

... that will, if taken far enough, be experienced as fearlessness. Lucretius Tertullian fear metus Augustine Suetonius misericordia patientia belief doubt scrupuli scruples superstitio Athenagoras Cyprian Minucius Felix Christians pudor sense of shame Cynics Passio Perpetuae martyr martyres...

... recognition amnesia embodiment shame mourning psychoaffective autodestructive compulsory destructive narcissistic psychological trauma aggression aggressivity aggressive autoimmunize invulnerability necropower necropolitical agentive fantasies immunopoetic practices necromnipotence...

...”) —a desire that provokes a shame-faced and shameful repudiation of Yiddish, the very language previously deployed in this interreligious conflict. avant garde Bernstein Charles Christians Christianity DuPlessis Rachel Blau Hebrew Bible Hollander John Jewish Jesus King James Bible modernism Other...

... Marianne Holocaust Lanzmann Claude postmemory shame trauma Craps Stef history LaCapra Dominick memory negative sublime traumatic complicity 9 11 Agamben Giorgio bare life Homo sacer Agamben Remnants of Auschwitz Agamben sovereign power state bodies Guantánamo Bay Muselmänner violence...

... the role of writing is considered, well known since Starobinski as the route Rousseau takes to circumvent embarrassment. confession de Man Paul discourse embarrassment performative Rousseau Jean Jacques shame Baudelaire Charles lack referentiality signifier Benveniste Émile constative rupture...

...This chapter proposes that rather than viewing Donald Trump’s rise to political power as indicative of an ideological shift, it is best seen through the prism of affect. Trump’s coalition was motivated by a particular configuration of white shame in the aftermath of liberal and progressive...

... one summer afternoon when word was out that there was going to be a street fight in the Patterson Houses, with one side of the Projects against the other. They called this a “shame battle.” This sort of thing happened regularly in the Lester Patterson Houses. Allen Jones summer 1965 heroin sex...

...Primo Levi's corpus of writings has become an important part of a larger discussion in trauma, emotion, guilt, and shame theories. Ruth Leys has outlined recent trends in these fields in her 2007 book From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After. This chapter conducts a close reading...

... from the experience of shame to the possibility of praise. Praise is what the book in its rather unwieldy title proposes to do. In terms of formal conventions, it did not resemble any of its predecessors or peers in social documentary. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men moves musically...

...This chapter continues the project of placing Tertullian’s particular conceptions within the broader framework of his thought. In this chapter, I concentrate on his notions of effective government. Plutarch Tacitus deisidaimonia fear metus government morality pudor sense of shame religio...

... Noam Haeberle Ronald Meadlo Paul Medina Ernest Oliver Kendrick Lifton Robert Jay Russell Bertrand Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal dehumanization Geneva Convention Charlie Company empathy masculinity World War II Belknap Michel shame silence Kissinger Henry sexual violence violence war...

... to understand the seductive lure of violence through the operations of shame. Spenser's poem may be too complex to sustain simple moral principles, but as it fashions gentle persons, it aims to create subjects capable of reflecting ethically on experiences of violence and vulnerability at the moments in which...

...This chapter is devoted to an analysis of the Abu Ghraib photographs and proposes that there is a formal connection between the temporality of anxiety, the psychic structure of shame, and the photographic medium itself. It suggests that shame can be considered a photographic affect...