{"product_id":"social-aesthetic-and-medical-implications-of-performing-shame-hardback","title":"Social, Aesthetic, and Medical Implications of Performing Shame - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerforming Shame\u003c\/em\u003e shows how simulations of shame by North American writers and artists have the power to resist its withering influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 analyses the projects’ key terms: shame, performance, and empathy. Chapter 2 probes the book’s key terms in light of a real-world study of an \"empathy device\" that aims to teach the public what it feels like to be disabled. Chapter 3 analyses how theatre intervenes in the practice of medicine via standardized patient actors who engage in role play to enhance medical students’ empathy for patients coping with shame. Chapter 4 moves from the clinic to the street to examine how The Raging Grannies’ public performances contest ageist constructions of older women’s bodies and desires. Chapter 5 shifts further from the bedside to the book by exploring Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e, which challenges the shame projected onto homosexuals. Bringing the study full circle, the final chapter offers close readings of the stories of Alice Munro; like empathy devices, her texts restage scenes of shame to undo its malevolent spell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to scholars in theatre and performance studies, health humanities, gender studies, queer studies, literary studies, disability studies, and affect studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45566542872814,"sku":"9781032205540","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/social-aesthetic-and-medical-implications-of-performing-shame-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}