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

By: McDaniel, Patricia | ebrary, IncMaterial type: TextTextSeries: American social experience series | The American social experience seriesPublication details: New York ; New York University Press c2003Description: viii, 215 p. : illSubject(s): Bashfulness - Social aspects - United States | Bashfulness - HistoryDDC classification: 155.2/32 Online access: Open e-book (Ruskin students only)
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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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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