Veronica Heney
Veronica Heney
That self-harm is a shameful practice is often taken for granted. However, recent sociological work has called attention to the way this shamefulness is actively constructed through narrative. This essay takes up that call, with a particula...
The Shame of Being Trans: Transgender Patients and Cisgender Doctors in U.S. Medical Dramas [0.03%]
美国医学剧中的跨性别患者和顺性别的医生：成为跨性别的羞愧感
Traci B Abbott
Traci B Abbott
U.S. medical series have, since 1975, regularly integrated guest transgender characters as patients but limit patient and doctor interactions to problems caused by or related to their medical transition. An analysis of more than 18 differen...
It's Time to Talk About Abortion: Shame, Fiction, and Legislative Change in Western Europe [0.03%]
是时候谈论堕胎了——西方欧洲的耻辱、虚构和立法变迁
Carla Robison
Carla Robison
While the breaking of silence on abortion is generally attributed to feminist mobilization, this essay argues that the popularization of female-centered narratives in the 1960s and 1970s contributed to a culture shift which played a crucial...
Less a Method than a Form: Repairing Shame and Illness in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Kate Zambreno [0.03%]
弥补耻辱与疾病：埃夫·科索斯基·萨德格威克和凯特·赞布雷诺之比较及对其它作家的影响而不是一种方法：形式的力量
Chloe R Green
Chloe R Green
In this essay, I explore how Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogue on Love and Kate Zambreno's To Write as If Already Dead contest the relationship between illness and shame through their renegotiation of the confessional form. Both memoirs, i...
Katharine Cheston
Katharine Cheston
Alice Hattrick's Ill Feelings (2021) is a "genre-bending" long-form essay; its title's dual meaning underlines the entanglement of symptoms and shame that occur when illness is seen as having no explanation. This paper brings Ill Feelings i...
Douglas Dowland
Douglas Dowland
In the world of medicine, shame's potential is ever-present and attempts to keep it at bay may only induce it all the more intensely. In this short story by the often-anthologized physician-writer Richard Selzer, the narrator witnesses a su...
"A World of Unknowing": Facing Shame in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face [0.03%]
《面对无知的世界》——露西·格林莉自传《脸的一生》中的耻辱主题分析
Harriet Hustis
Harriet Hustis
Situated at the intersection of literature and medicine, Autobiography of a Face offers a unique opportunity to explore the interrelationship of shame and illness. By interleaving what Grealy thought she knew with what she later learned (bu...
Towards a Theory of Unexplained Illness: Shame, Pride, and Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory" [0.03%]
走向未解之症的理论：羞耻、自豪与乔安娜·赫德娃的“生病女性理论”
Maaike Hommes
Maaike Hommes
This article offers a reading of Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory" in relation to shame and pride in the context of unexplained illness-illness, that is, for which there is no found organic marker in relation to the symptoms experienced b...
Penelope Lusk
Penelope Lusk
Shame is a temporally sensitive emotion highly relevant to the healthcare context and culturally inscribed within medical education in the United States and United Kingdom. Drawing from feminist, phenomenological, and queer of color concept...
Shame, Enchantment, and the "There-ness" of Disability in The Secret Garden [0.03%]
《秘密花园》中的残疾的“他者性”、羞愧与迷醉
Harriet Cooper
Harriet Cooper
Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden has been a repugnant object for contemporary scholars of disability studies because of the equivalence it draws between able embodiment and morality. While scholars have remarked on the novel's li...