Girls Blush, Sometimes: Gender, Moral Agency, and the Problem of Shame

Manion, Jennifer

doi:10.2979/hyp.2003.18.3.21

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“…66 Shame then relates to the whole of the individual's character. 67 Groups are shamed through a variety of means including 'hate speech or group defamation, harassment, social distancing, social distrust, and objectification'. 68 Women who are voluntarily childless are shamed and oppressed through social reprisal and negative assessments as seen in the stereotypes detailed earlier.…”

Section: Th E Soci a L C Ons T Ru C Ti On Of R Eg Re Tmentioning

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Regret, shame, and denials of women's voluntary sterilization

Lalonde¹

2018

Bioethics

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Women face extraordinary difficulty in seeking sterilization as physicians routinely deny them the procedure. Physicians defend such denials by citing the possibility of future regret, a well-studied phenomenon in women's sterilization literature. Regret is, however, a problematic emotion upon which to deny reproductive freedom as regret is neither satisfactorily defined and measured, nor is it centered in analogous cases regarding men's decision to undergo sterilization or the decision of women to undergo fertility treatment. Why then is regret such a concern in the voluntary sterilization of women? I argue that regret is centered in women's voluntary sterilization due to pronatalism or expectations that womanhood means motherhood. Women seeking voluntary sterilization are regarded as a deviant identity that rejects what is taken to be their essential role of motherhood and they are thus seen as vulnerable to regret.

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Regret, shame, and denials of women's voluntary sterilization

Lalonde¹

2018

Bioethics

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“…Much of the latter has appeared in the pages of this journal, and I am delighted that the current special issue consolidates Hypatia's engagement with gendered shame. Over the years, influential articles by Jill Locke, Erin Taylor and Laura Ebert Wallace, Luna Dolezal, Jennifer Manion, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Ellen K. Feder, and Ullaliina Lehtinen have been published by Hypatia (Lehtinen 1998;Manion 2003;Lyerly 2006;Locke 2007;Dolezal 2010;Feder 2011;Taylor and Wallace 2012), and the special issue should be read as a continuation of this feminist work on shame, constituting an expressly feminist shame theory for the twenty-first century that builds upon and critically extends the feminist leitmotif of shame.…”

Section: Situating Gendered Shame In Contemporary Trends In Feminist mentioning

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

Fischer

2018

Hypatia

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“…9 According to the liberal view, shame is a painful experience of oneself as diminished or inadequate because of a failure to live up to one's autonomously chosen standards, expectations, values, or ends (Taylor 1985, chap. 3;Manion 2003). Although unpleasant, experiences of shame are on this account constructive and even salutary in that they exert pressure on us to recommit ourselves to what we really value, and thereby return us to ''moral equilibrium'' (Taylor 1985, chap.…”

Section: Emotional Memories Ptsd and The Mechanism Of Propranololmentioning

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“…11. These views diverge on the question of whether we should jettison the liberal conception of shame altogether and replace it with the alternative, given how the liberal conception of shame ignores the relational nature of the self and therefore fails as a viable account of anyone's shame (Dillon 1997;Calhoun 2004), or whether instead we should understand shame experiences as different in kind for the privileged and the subordinate (Bartky 1990;Lehtinen 1998;Manion 2003). As I am of the view that selves are relational, I take it that the alternative conception of shame outlined below can itself account for the differences in valence between the shame of the privileged and that of the subordinate and, that, if plausible, it deposes the liberal view.…”

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Pharmacotherapy to Blunt Memories of Sexual Violence: What's a Feminist to Think?

Hurley¹

2010

Hypatia

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It has recently been discovered that propranolol-a beta-blocker traditionally used to treat cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension-might disrupt the formation of the emotionally disturbing memories that typically occur in the wake of traumatic events and consequently prevent the onset of trauma-induced psychological injuries such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. One context in which the use of propranolol is generating interest in both the popular and scientific press is sexual violence. Nevertheless, feminists have so far not weighed in on propranolol. I suggest that the time is ripe for a careful feminist analysis of the moral and political implications of propranolol use in the context of sexual violence. In this paper, I map the feminist issues potentially raised by providing propranolol to victims of sexual assault, focusing in particular on the compatibility of propranolol use and availability with an understanding of the social and systematic dimensions of rape's harms. I do not deliver a final verdict on propranolol; in fact, I show that we do not yet have enough information about propranolol's effects to do so. Rather, I provide a feminist framework for evaluating the possibilities and perils opened up by therapeutic memory manipulation in the context of sexual violence against women.It has recently been discovered that propranolol-a beta-blocker traditionally used to treat cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension-might disrupt the formation of the emotionally disturbing memories that typically occur in the wake of traumatic events and consequently prevent the onset of trauma-induced psychological injuries such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).One context in which the prospect of administering propranolol to ward off post-traumatic psychological injury is generating interest is sexual violence.

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Girls Blush, Sometimes: Gender, Moral Agency, and the Problem of Shame

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Regret, shame, and denials of women's voluntary sterilization

Regret, shame, and denials of women's voluntary sterilization

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

Pharmacotherapy to Blunt Memories of Sexual Violence: What's a Feminist to Think?

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