| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages) : illustrations |
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Preface -- Introduction: intimacy, publicity, and femininity -- Poor Eliza -- Pax americana : the case of Show Boat -- National brands, national body : imitation of life -- Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation -- Remembering love, forgetting everything else : now, Voyager -- "It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes" : femininity, formalism, and Dorothy Parker -- The compulsion to repeat femininity : landscape for a good woman and the life and loves of a she-devil |
| Summary |
The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural "intimate public" in the United States, a "women's culture" distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of a conversation that feels intimate and revelatory. As Berlant explains, "women's" books, films, and television shows enact a fantasy that a woman's life is not just her own, but an experience understood by other women, no matter how dissimilar they are. The commodified genres of intimacy, such as "chick lit," circulate among strangers, enabling insider self-help talk to flourish in an intimate public. Sentimentality and complaint are central to this commercial convention of critique; their relation to the political realm is ambivalent, as politics seems both to threaten sentimental values and to provide certain opportunities for their extension |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed August 7, 2020) |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Sentimentalism.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Sentimentalism in motion pictures.
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Mass media and women.
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Women -- Psychology.
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Emotions.
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Women in literature.
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Women in motion pictures.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Emotions
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Mass media and women
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Sentimentalism
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Sentimentalism in literature
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Sentimentalism in motion pictures
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Women in literature
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Women in motion pictures
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Women -- Psychology
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Kulturtheorie
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Massenkultur
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Sentimentalisme.
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Cultuurindustrie.
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Kvinnor och massmedia.
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Kvinnor i litteraturen.
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Sentimentalitet.
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Kvinnorollen.
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USA
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822389163 |
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0822389169 |
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9781283022828 |
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1283022826 |
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9786613022820 |
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6613022829 |
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