The Emotional Self: A Sociocultural Exploration

The Emotional Self: A Sociocultural Exploration
ISBN-10
0761956026
ISBN-13
9780761956020
Category
Social Science
Pages
195
Language
English
Published
1998-06-18
Publisher
SAGE
Author
Deborah Lupton

Description

`This addition to a growing number of texts which approach emotions and emotionality from a social constructionist perspective is well written, scholarly, accessible and interesting.... There is both breadth and depth to this work.' - Feminism and Psychology This broad-ranging and accessible book brings together social and cultural theory with original empirical research into the nature of the emotional self in contemporary western societies. The emphasis of the analysis is on the emotional self as a dynamic project that is continually shaped and reshaped via discourse, embodied sensations, memory, personal biography and interactions with others and objects. Using an interdisciplinary approa

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