Gender and the Politics of Shame: A Twenty‐First‐Century Feminist Shame Theory

Fischer, Clara

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“…The articles also foreground new areas of thinking about the politics of shame, within shifting and increasingly entangled global and local contexts. Importantly, this edition is characterised by and acknowledges what Fischer (2018) calls the “slipperiness” of shame, in acknowledging both the multiplicity of ways in which shame is deployed and functions and the contested ways in which it may or may not contribute to social justice, in this case intersectional gender and sexual equalities and freedoms.…”

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“…This special issue of Feminism & Psychology aims to contribute to a growing body of literature on the politics of shame (see also Fischer, 2018). The renewed engagement with a feminist politics of shame is enhanced by ''the affective turn'' and by new materialist and post-humanist thinking that challenges the ongoing erasure of affect, emotion, and embodiment which remains endemic to much of western scholarship.…”

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A feminist politics of shame: Shame and its contested possibilities

Shefer

Munt

2019

Feminism & Psychology

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This editorial piece introduces a special issue on the feminist politics of shame. It locates the special issue in the larger framework of scholarship on feminist approaches to shame and specifically feminist psychological emphases, and contextualises the foregrounding of the productive possibilities of shame for feminist social justice projects. The introductory piece overviews the contributions to the special issue through a thematic lens.

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A feminist politics of shame: Shame and its contested possibilities

Shefer

Munt

2019

Feminism & Psychology

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“…As illustrated in Figure 1, situating worklessness alongside welfare receipt in this way allows us to conceptualise a ‘toxic symbiosis’ which can result in experiences of stigma and feelings of shame. Experiences of welfare receipt therefore, as a form of ‘stigmatised beneficence’ or ‘ungenerous gift’ (Boland and Griffin, 2016), produces feelings of shame, that most notorious and painful emotion (Fischer, 2018). The data presented further on suggest that these feelings of shame are elicited by a sense of dissonance in respect to socially prescribed normative identities surrounding work and worklessness coupled with the ‘shame’ of receiving social welfare (Goffman,1990/1963; Scheff, 2006; Schefer and Munt, 2019).…”

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Work and thrive or claim and skive: Experiencing the ‘toxic symbiosis’ of worklessness and welfare recipiency in Ireland

Whelan

2020

Irish Journal of Sociology

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The purpose of this paper is to shed much needed light on lived experience in the context of worklessness coupled with welfare receipt in Ireland. In doing so, the work ethic is presented as an objective social force that can be imposed externally and in a number of social and administrative contexts. Coupled with this, receiving welfare is argued as being a ‘problematic’ and potentially shameful social position. On this basis, it will be shown how worklessness and welfare receipt can coalesce to form a ‘toxic symbiosis’, something which can deeply and negatively affect those who experience it. The claims made in this paper are based on original research conducted in Ireland, in which 22 people were interviewed about their general experiences of being welfare recipients and their interactions with the Irish welfare state. Drawing on rich qualitative data, epistemic integrity is offered through depth of understanding meaning that what is presented here sheds lights on the social implications of the continuous denigration of welfare recipiency coupled with the continuous valorisation of work. In a practical sense, this suggests that, on the one hand, a new, less corrosive societal relationship with work is both desirable and necessary in respect to the well-being of persons, while on the other, a more holistic approach to the administration of welfare, in which a return to work is only one part of an overall approach, is both needed and ultimately more humane.

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“…13 For work on affect and emotion, see Meyers (1997); Hemmings (2005); Koivunen (2010); Pedwell and Whitehead (2012). For work on shame, see Nussbaum (2004);Fischer (2016Fischer ( , 2017Fischer ( , 2018a; Locke (2016). she should have been entitled to under the PLDPA, nor did Ms Z (as I shall refer to the anonymous person of the latter case), who was instead sectioned.…”

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“… 13 For work on affect and emotion, see Meyers (1997); Hemmings (2005); Koivunen (2010); Pedwell and Whitehead (2012). For work on shame, see Nussbaum (2004); Fischer (2016, 2017, 2018a); Locke (2016). …”

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Abortion and Reproduction in Ireland: Shame, Nation-building and the Affective Politics of Place

Fischer¹

2019

Feminist Review

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In 2018, Irish citizens voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution to allow for the introduction of a more liberal abortion law. In this article, I develop a retrospective reading of the stubborn persistence of the denial of reproductive rights to women in Ireland over the decades. I argue that the ban’s severity and longevity is rooted in deep-seated, affective attachments that formed part of processes of postcolonial nation-building and relied on shame and the construction of the Irish nation as a particular, gendered place. The article develops the notion of ‘gendered displacement’ to conceptualise abortion travel in the context of the history of women’s coercive confinement, and provides an affective, feminist reading of the interlinkages between place and nationhood. It also draws on three cases—the X, Y and Z cases—to illustrate the centrality of place and women’s occupation of space to the analysis of Ireland’s abortion ban, which should be read in the wider context of the legacy of what I term the ‘affective politics of place’.

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Gender and the Politics of Shame: A Twenty‐First‐Century Feminist Shame Theory

Cited by 34 publications

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A feminist politics of shame: Shame and its contested possibilities

A feminist politics of shame: Shame and its contested possibilities

Work and thrive or claim and skive: Experiencing the ‘toxic symbiosis’ of worklessness and welfare recipiency in Ireland

Abortion and Reproduction in Ireland: Shame, Nation-building and the Affective Politics of Place

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