Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment

A Long-Term Sociological Perspective

Barbara Górnicka (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 195 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-15983-2 (ISBN)

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Barbara Górnicka presents a sociological investigation - both historical and contemporary - into the problems surrounding naked bodies. She draws on her own participation in a nudist swimming club and goes on to study the often very complex and paradoxical emotions that have been associated with nakedness in the Western world for centuries. The book provides answers not only to why we find exposing our naked bodies shameful, but also why we find it sexual and erotic in the first place. It looks beneath taboos surrounding nakedness today and offers a theoretical explanation for their development over time. On the basis of her historical analysis, the author demonstrates that it was not until the late nineteenth or twentieth century that we began to see nudity as erotic.

Dr. Barbara Górnicka completed her doctoral degree in sociology at University College Dublin. She is the Managing Editor of Figurations, the newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation. Her research interests range from sociological theory to sociology of the body, emotions and sexuality.

Setting the Nude Scene.- From Lewd to Nude: Becoming a Naturist.- The Sociogenesis of Nudism.- Natural Bodies? Nakedness, Eroticisation and Shame.- Nakedness as a Theoretical Problem.- Nakedness and the Theory of Taboo.

"In Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment: A Long-Term Sociological Perspective, Barbara Górnicka asks why we have connected nakedness to feelings of shame. Drawing on work by Goffman, Freud, and others, she builds a theoretical framework for understanding nudity using Norbert Elias's theory of civilizing processes. ... This book will be of particular interest to those working in the area of sociology of the body." (Brett Lunceford, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 123 (5), March, 2018)

“In Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment: A Long-Term Sociological Perspective, Barbara Górnicka asks why we have connected nakedness to feelings of shame. Drawing on work by Goffman, Freud, and others, she builds a theoretical framework for understanding nudity using Norbert Elias’s theory of civilizing processes. … This book will be of particular interest to those working in the area of sociology of the body.” (Brett Lunceford, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 123 (5), March, 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Figurationen. Schriften zur Zivilisations- und Prozesstheorie
Zusatzinfo	XI, 195 p. 7 illus.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Anthropology • Body • Cultural Anthropology • Embarrassment • Emotions and civilizing process • Nakedness in the Western World • Nudity and Shame • Social and cultural anthropology • Social Sciences • Society and Social Sciences • sociological theory • Sociology • Sociology of the body • Taboos Surrounding Nakedness
ISBN-10	3-658-15983-9 / 3658159839
ISBN-13	978-3-658-15983-2 / 9783658159832
Zustand	Neuware