Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts: Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995
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 th...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY
New York University Press
[2003]
|
| Series: | The American Social Experience
16 |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 DE-859 DE-860 DE-739 DE-473 Volltext |
| Summary: | 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 |
| Item Description: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| ISBN: | 9780814759936 |
Staff View
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000zcb4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV047921110 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 007 | cr|uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 220411s2003 xx o|||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780814759936 |9 978-0-8147-5993-6 | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.18574/nyu/9780814759936 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (ZDB-23-DGG)9780814759936 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1312704740 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV047921110 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-1043 |a DE-1046 |a DE-858 |a DE-859 |a DE-860 |a DE-473 |a DE-739 | ||
| 082 | 0 | |a 155.2/32 |2 22 | |
| 100 | 1 | |a McDaniel, Patricia |e Verfasser |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts |b Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 |c Patricia McDaniel |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY |b New York University Press |c [2003] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c © 2003 | |
| 300 | |a 1 Online-Ressource | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a The American Social Experience |v 16 | |
| 500 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022) | ||
| 520 | |a 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 | ||
| 546 | |a In English | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Bashfulness |x History | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Bashfulness |x Social aspects |z United States | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |x Verlag |z URL des Erstveröffentlichers |3 Volltext |
| 912 | |a ZDB-23-DGG | ||
| 943 | 1 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-033302701 | |
| 966 | e | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |l DE-1046 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FAW_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |l DE-1043 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FAB_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |l DE-858 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FCO_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |l DE-859 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FKE_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |l DE-860 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FLA_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |l DE-739 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q UPA_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |l DE-473 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q UBG_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
Record in the Search Index
| _version_ | 1824508045878624256 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | |
| adam_txt | |
| any_adam_object | |
| any_adam_object_boolean | |
| author | McDaniel, Patricia |
| author_facet | McDaniel, Patricia |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | McDaniel, Patricia |
| author_variant | p m pm |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV047921110 |
| collection | ZDB-23-DGG |
| ctrlnum | (ZDB-23-DGG)9780814759936 (OCoLC)1312704740 (DE-599)BVBBV047921110 |
| dewey-full | 155.2/32 |
| dewey-hundreds | 100 - Philosophy & psychology |
| dewey-ones | 155 - Differential & developmental psychology |
| dewey-raw | 155.2/32 |
| dewey-search | 155.2/32 |
| dewey-sort | 3155.2 232 |
| dewey-tens | 150 - Psychology |
| discipline | Psychologie |
| discipline_str_mv | Psychologie |
| format | Electronic eBook |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>00000nam a2200000zcb4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV047921110</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr|uuu---uuuuu</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">220411s2003 xx o|||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-8147-5993-6</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.18574/nyu/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(ZDB-23-DGG)9780814759936</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1312704740</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV047921110</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-1043</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-1046</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-858</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-859</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-860</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-473</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-739</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">155.2/32</subfield><subfield code="2">22</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">McDaniel, Patricia</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts</subfield><subfield code="b">Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995</subfield><subfield code="c">Patricia McDaniel</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">New York, NY</subfield><subfield code="b">New York University Press</subfield><subfield code="c">[2003]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">© 2003</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 Online-Ressource</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">The American Social Experience</subfield><subfield code="v">16</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">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</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">SOCIAL SCIENCE / General</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Bashfulness</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Bashfulness</subfield><subfield code="x">Social aspects</subfield><subfield code="z">United States</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="z">URL des Erstveröffentlichers</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="943" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-033302701</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="l">DE-1046</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FAW_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="l">DE-1043</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FAB_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="l">DE-858</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FCO_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="l">DE-859</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FKE_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="l">DE-860</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FLA_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="l">DE-739</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">UPA_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936</subfield><subfield code="l">DE-473</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">UBG_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV047921110 |
| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| index_date | 2024-07-03T19:33:41Z |
| indexdate | 2025-02-19T17:34:23Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9780814759936 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-033302701 |
| oclc_num | 1312704740 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-739 |
| owner_facet | DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-739 |
| physical | 1 Online-Ressource |
| psigel | ZDB-23-DGG ZDB-23-DGG FAW_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FAB_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FCO_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FKE_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FLA_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG UPA_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG UBG_PDA_DGG |
| publishDate | 2003 |
| publishDateSearch | 2003 |
| publishDateSort | 2003 |
| publisher | New York University Press |
| record_format | marc |
| series2 | The American Social Experience |
| spelling | McDaniel, Patricia Verfasser aut Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 Patricia McDaniel New York, NY New York University Press [2003] © 2003 1 Online-Ressource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier The American Social Experience 16 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022) 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 In English SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Bashfulness History Bashfulness Social aspects United States https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | McDaniel, Patricia Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Bashfulness History Bashfulness Social aspects United States |
| title | Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 |
| title_auth | Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 |
| title_exact_search | Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 |
| title_full | Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 Patricia McDaniel |
| title_fullStr | Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 Patricia McDaniel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 Patricia McDaniel |
| title_short | Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts |
| title_sort | shrinking violets and caspar milquetoasts shyness power and intimacy in the united states 1950 1995 |
| title_sub | Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 |
| topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Bashfulness History Bashfulness Social aspects United States |
| topic_facet | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Bashfulness History Bashfulness Social aspects United States |
| url | https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759936 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT mcdanielpatricia shrinkingvioletsandcasparmilquetoastsshynesspowerandintimacyintheunitedstates19501995 |