Shrinking violets and Caspar Milquetoasts [electronic resource] : shyness, power, and intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 / Patricia A. McDaniel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American social experience seriesPublication details: New York ; London : New York University Press, c2003.Description: viii, 215 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 155.2/32 21
LOC classification:
  • BF575.B3 M34 2003eb
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Contents:
The emotional culture of shyness from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century -- "Build him a dais" : shyness and heterosexuality from the roles of the fifties to the rules of the nineties -- Assertive women and timid men? : race, heterosexuality, and shyness -- Shyness from nine to five -- "Intimacy is a difficult art" : the changing role of shyness in friendship.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-209) and index.

The emotional culture of shyness from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century -- "Build him a dais" : shyness and heterosexuality from the roles of the fifties to the rules of the nineties -- Assertive women and timid men? : race, heterosexuality, and shyness -- Shyness from nine to five -- "Intimacy is a difficult art" : the changing role of shyness in friendship.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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